Open Collective

Platform to run your community like an open source project. Manage your income and expenses in a transparent way.

[Open Collective @opencollect]

Thank you @Cloudflare for being such a great steward of the open source community 🙏

https://t.co/wVDc6g8Wzv

[Michael Dong @mdong1909]

Cloudflare is distributing $301,300 to open source projects & maintainers. This is the first round of sponsorships from the $1M Vite ecosystem fund we committed to earlier this year.

The recipients were selected by a panel of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, Vite+ core team members including maintainers not employed by Cloudflare.

Open source is more important than ever as agents make software development more accessible & widespread. These financial sponsorships are a small thank you & recognition for all the hard work.

We’ll continue to sponsor more open source maintainers in upcoming quarters.

https://t.co/gTyGFoOmbf

[Open Collective @opencollect]

There are many many more of them. Based on public data from @github.

Let’s celebrate the people that contribute and steward our (digital) commons.

https://t.co/6FI8j8h3Ve

[Open Collective @opencollect]

Tag them and share your gratitude to those open source contributors 🙏

[Open Collective @opencollect]

In case you are wondering how much funding the PHP Foundation is receiving to maintain this central piece of infrastructure.

Ask your company and government to fund the road and bridges of our digital space. The cost of not doing so is far greater.

https://t.co/2tTXCVnHhZ

[Hugo @hugorcd]

evlog is growing way faster than I expected and there's so much I want to build.

I just set up an Open Collective so I can actually invest back into it. Better design, keeping everything running, and most importantly, being able to bring people in to work on this with me.

If you're using evlog in production and it's helping you, any support would mean a lot.

https://t.co/2baO5j8STZ

[Virgil Shelton @VirgilShelton]

I've just contributed to Astro. Consider supporting them too — every little helps! https://t.co/lmSm02fKaG via @opencollect

[Stephen @_StephenX_]

A meaningful milestone for @RockxyApp it’s now fiscally hosted by @opencollect - with a transparent Open Collective budget.

If Rockxy helps you or your company, I’d appreciate your support:
https://t.co/FB6rW0s33O

#Rockxy #OpenSource

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

“Stewarding Resilient, Free & Open Digital Infrastructures” Xavier Damman, Matthias Kirschner, Florian Glatz, Tara Merk
Moderated by: Joshua Dávila

From cooperative funding models enabling innovations in collective ownership, to local hosting and political/legal advocacy, there are many pathways to support sustainable FOSS infrastructures. Maintaining and scaling these infrastructures are vital to ensuring censorship resistance and digital freedom, especially as demands for compute and data storage escalate.

Panelists: @xdamman x @opencollect , Matthias Kirschner x @fsf , @heckerhut x @freedom , @mpg_dd x @CNRS
Moderator: @TBSocialist x @breadcoop

Watch it at: https://t.co/S86EMxjnD8

[Jon 🔜 TwitchCon @Asiavision]

What events should the @OBSProject team attend? Panels? Q&As? Should we make some exclusive @opencollect and @Patreon supporter merch?

Let us know what you'd like to see from the OBS team.

[Anthony Viard @avdev4j]

@SantoshYadavDev @jhipster The good thing is that everything is public, and people can check on @opencollect how the money is used. Ultimately, these contributions help projects stay alive, which in turn helps contributors keep contributing. It’s a virtuous circle.

[Open Collective @opencollect]

In Berlin? See you at the Neo Cypherpunk Summit today https://t.co/e1raaZ2dqf

[Xavier Damman 🌍🔅 @xdamman]

And at 4pm, join us for a conversation on “Stewarding Resilient, Free & Open Digital Infrastructures” with @TBSocialist @fsf @mpg_dd and myself.

https://t.co/vSWdHbmEyP

#web3privacy #Cypherpunk

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

70 organisations are coming to Neo-Cypherpunk Summit in Berlin. United in Freedom.

Solidarity in practice 🔥

Tech Solidarity Movements @TechWorkersBER, @breadcoop, @opencollect

Human Rights Advocates @HRF, @amnesty

Research with a human face https://t.co/X6VDWV7qzz, @Info_Activism, @DarkMatter_Labs, https://t.co/gKLwLpof3u, @sovright_, @BlockchainGov, @argotorg, @fsf Europe, @INCAmsterdam, @foresightinst, @otherinternet__, @metagov_project

Hacktivism @DyneOrg, @dod_berlin, @CommunityPriv, @BordelWTF, @Poetic_Tech

Freedom Stack

Protocols & networks @Logos_network, @DarkFiSquad, @ethereum, @nym, @torproject
Operational Systems: @GrapheneOS
Browsers: @torproject, @brave, Freedom Browser https://t.co/sThgCxFT5b
Messegers: Air by https://t.co/VoZPd2CVuo, @BitchatMe_ by @callebtc
Wallets: Kohaku by @ethereumfndn
VPNs: @snowstormnet, @nym
Storages: @ethswarm, @IPFS
Socials: https://t.co/Qw95nc3ars, @masknetwork
Docs @fileverse
Crypto: @Zcash
Portfolio @rotkiapp
Collaboration @radicle

Policymakers @EuEthInstitute
R&D: @argotorg, open hardware by https://t.co/wqkW35lySO
Genomics: @dark_dot_bio

Together https://t.co/8BeXwwEctF

[Open Collective @opencollect]

Fund an independent and decentralized citizen wireless network.

[Ифейг @Noenr_]

Je viens de faire un don à Meshtastic. Toi aussi, soutiens-les ! https://t.co/CRxE9neQuQ via @opencollect

[Open Collective @opencollect]

@TheDryhtscipe @HarmonyPartyUK Yes, it would still allow you to continue as a Fiscal Host :)
I'd recommend reviewing the attached letter, which details who's currently covering the platform costs. Every organization using Open Collective is helping people. Supporting upstream is just as important.

[Open Collective @opencollect]

@TheDryhtscipe @HarmonyPartyUK Hey John! Shannon here, please check your inbox! I personally reached out in March to provide you with an update on our new nonprofit ownership and subsequent pricing updates. There is an option that would cost $30 USD a month. Please get back to me :)

[nicoacosta.eth 🧉🎹 @nicoacosta]

open source is dying. @theo is right.

all of our code depends on who knows how many libraries and packages created at some point and maintained by some random guy

this job has always been incredibly hard and mostly uncompensated (kudos to open source public goods funding @opencollect @MolochDAO @ProtocolGuild @gitcoin @ethereumfndn @thedaofund)

there have always been issues, PRs to review, and some idiot to deal with

but never this many

the amount of code, commits and PRs everywhere has been growing exponentially since vibe coding became a thing. and it's not slowing down

great that more people are building and shipping. harder to tell signal from noise.

and a lot of times, the person who doesn't know what they're doing is also the one asking, insisting and tagging maintainers in comments and issues

btw not long ago there was zero spam protection. p*rn sites would exploit github's SEO and spam issues everywhere to trick google's algorithm

maintaining open source has never been this hard or this annoying

and all of our code depends on those people

we should be more intentional about funding and incentivizing open source public goods

let's hope they don't give up before that

[Open Collective @opencollect]

TLDR: we need maintainers more than ever.

Support the maintainers.

[Priyanka Vergadia @pvergadia]

🤯BREAKING: Alibaba just proved that AI Coding isn't taking your job, it's just writing the legacy code that will keep you employed fixing it for the next decade. 🤣

Passing a coding test once is easy. Maintaining that code for 8 months without it exploding? Apparently, it’s nearly impossible for AI.

Alibaba tested 18 AI agents on 100 real codebases over 233-day cycles. They didn't just look for "quick fixes"—they looked for long-term survival.

The results were a bloodbath:

75% of models broke previously working code during maintenance.

Only Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 maintained a >50% zero-regression rate.

Every other model accumulated technical debt that compounded until the codebase collapsed.

We’ve been using "snapshot" benchmarks like HumanEval that only ask "Does it work right now?"

The new SWE-CI benchmark asks: "Does it still work after 8 months of evolution?"

Most AI agents are "Quick-Fix Artists." They write brittle code that passes tests today but becomes a maintenance nightmare tomorrow. They aren't building software; they're building a house of cards.

The narrative just got honest: Most models can write code. Almost none can maintain it.

[Open Collective @opencollect]

Should LLMs be able to learn from your open source code?

[Open Collective @opencollect]

@web3privacy @xdamman https://t.co/oP7HcHZmhz - Xavier is working on the new Web 3 version of Open Collective

[Open Collective @opencollect]

OpenAI is now also offering free tokens for open source maintainers:

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

We’re launching Codex for Open Source to support the contributors who keep open-source software running.

Maintainers can use Codex to review code, understand large codebases, and strengthen security coverage without taking on even more invisible work.

https://t.co/ulWYlf7zhz

[Open Collective @opencollect]

There are many ways to contribute to open source communities.

Offering tokens is one of them.

Open source maintainers, this is for you!

[Lydia Hallie ✨ @lydiahallie]

Excited to announce Claude for Open Source ❤️

We're giving 6 months of free Claude Max 20x to open source maintainers and core contributors.

If you maintain a popular project or contribute across open source, please apply!

https://t.co/inuh0hxREA