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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Safipok@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Clarification for those who haven't clicked the link:

Clarification of entities

Open Collective. Inc (OC) is a for-profit entity. We are responsible for building the Open Collective Platform that many fiscal hosts use for their operations.

The founders of Open Collective also founded and supported the early development of several nonprofit organizations:

Open Collective Foundation (OCF) a US-based 501(c)(3) fiscal host that hosts charitable projects, and which has chosen to dissolve.

Open Source Collective (OSC) a US-based 501(c)(6) fiscal host that only hosts open source software-related projects and which continues to operate in good health.

Open Collective Europe (OCE) a European based organization with the ability to have 501(c)(3) equivalency in the US, hosting open source, solidarity, artistic, and cultural projects principally rooted in or connected to Europe and which continues to operate in good health.

These entities all have similar names and share similar origins, having been started by the founders of Open Collective and incubated in the Open Collective ecosystem, but are independent nonprofits with their own budget, accounts, staff, board of directors, and mission. They each have a separate commercial relationship with Open Collective.

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 11 points 8 months ago

Whelp, I have a monthly donation for lemmy there. I guess it should be removed from lemmy's donation page: https://join-lemmy.org/donate

[-] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 13 points 8 months ago

I think their donations are handled by OpenCollective inc. rather than the OCF but I might be wrong

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Their fiscal host is confusingly "Open Source Collective" and not the "Open Collective Foundation" .

[-] Safipok@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2024
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