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  1. About OSC

OSC's Broader Work

We're best known for our fiscal hosting program, but that's not everything we do...

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In addition to our fiscal hosting work, Open Source Collective (OSC) also actively engages with the broader open source ecosystem. Through partnerships, advocacy, and participation in key events, we strive to foster a more sustainable and collaborative environment for all in the ecosystem.


Free Data and Tools For Developers, Researchers and Policymakers

Open Source Collective funded the development and maintenance of: the world's most comprehensive and accurate, public and free dataset about open source production and use. is a is a set of free services and tools for a growing community of researchers, policymakers, developers, and funders seeking to identify, secure, and sustain critical open source components.


Funding Campaigns and Services

Open Source Collective has a long history of driving sponsorships and investments in open source through a series of funding campaigns and tools:

  • Working with Open Collective Inc. we developed , an application to discover and support your open source dependencies.

  • We provided administrative and technical support to during the first wave of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.

  • We pioneered a new approach to campaigns using quadratic or 'democratic' funding with GitCoin as part of .

Most recently we joined as a supporting organization, through our work with Ecosystem Funds.


Funding Critical, Digital Infrastructure

We developed primarily to address concerns with the lack of financial support for critical open source components. Using billions of data points from we packaged millions of the most critical open source components into centered on a language, framework, or package, turning into a five minute conversation with your CTO. Ecosystem Funds takes a platform agnostic approach to funding open source, paying maintainers where they choose to accept payments. We support all known platforms used by communities to support their work. Open Source Collective donates 1% of its annual revenue to critical open source projects using Ecosystem Funds, and we call for others to do the same.


Partnerships

We work both as a administrative partner and/or payments processor for a number of well-known open source funding initiatives:

  • Google's Summer of Code and Season of Docs projects

  • Digital Ocean's Hacktoberfest campaign

  • GitHub's Sponsors and Secure Open Source Fund programs

Finally we are open to accepting payments from well known open source funding platforms like GitHub Sponsors, Drips, Thanks.dev, StackAid, FLOSSBank, GitTip/Gratipay, LibrePay, and more.


Policy and Advocacy

We also support a number of corporations in their internal policy around open source sustainability and support.


Education

In addition to our work with Sustain, we support to member projects, and the broader open source community through a number of educational and support initiatives including:

  • A series of live, workshop based training and subsequent guides published at guides.oscollective.org

Open Source Collective is a founding member of the an organization educating and informing US policy related to open source content, research and education. We actively engage in advocacy through partnerships with non-partisan organizations and institutions like the Atlantic Research Council, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Ford Foundation, and directly through Sustain OSS.

Sustain was created to move the emerging conversation around the sustainability of open source toward practical progress. In 2017 Sustain held its first in-person meeting, bringing together 100 people from a broad range of organizations and institutions. The formed the basis for discussions, events and further publications since.

Financial support for maintainers covering the ticket cost for non-technical conferences and events, which you can .

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