Open Collective VS The Tidelift Subscription

Have you thanked a maintainer of an open-source project you use today? If not, go ahead and reach out to them on social media and say thank you. Does that scare you a little bit? That's OK, why not share their project on social media, sponsor them on GitHub or Open Collective, write or film a tutorial, file a great bug report, pick up one of the good-first-bugs, or star their project on GitHub? These are just some... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

There have been steps forward in the direction of making donation easier: https://github.com/sponsors , which can serve as a "fiscal host." The advantage here is that the default rule at law for how a group of developers working together will be treated is partnership, which means joint and several liability. Working with a fiscal host partitions individual liability from group liability. But there are still open... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Are there any FinTech or Incubators out there to fund Co-ops? I am thinking of how https://opencollective.com/ operates for Open Source and Non-Profits. Source: 6 months ago

You know when you envision an idea, and along the way you see someone who made this idea a reality, well, opencollective.com is exactly that. Source: 9 months ago

Going forward, The Odin Project will be completely funded by community donations through Open Collective. A platform designed for transparently collecting and managing funds for open-source projects just like ours. Open Collective will allow The Odin Project to secure vital financial resources directly from the community of developers and learners that benefit from the platform. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

This is https://tidelift.com/ ! Others too, I think. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

This problem has already been partially solved by Tidelift. He even mentions them in his blog post, they used to send him $1000 a month. Unfortunately it sounds like they're not legally allowed to fund him at the moment because Russia. $1000 a month is not a lot considering the amount of work this guy is putting in, so Tidelift's model may not be sustainable but it's still an interesting business model. Source: about 1 year ago

> Business idea: If there was a single corporate intermediatory who Isn't that what tidelift [1] is doing? [1] https://tidelift.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Depending on the FOSS you use, yes. Eg, https://tidelift.com/ . Is it more convenient to find commercial/proprietary vendors instead? Or to use warranty-less software and pay for your own staff to track changes and be ready to maintain the software yourself? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Alternatively, companies like tidelift are trying to fix this; you may want to check with them if they'd be interested in adding your project to the fold, though I believe they are focusing more on libraries in library-heavy ecosystems such as java, nodejs, and python. Source: over 1 year ago