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      They were a donation platform for community projects and open-source projects. Their main thing was that all donations and expenses by an entity are public, so there’s a lot of transparency with who and where the money goes that you donate. Really sad to lose them

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    It’s so weird reading both sides of the 2 entities involved in this. Seems like there’s some missing communication between the two

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        The post article is from the umbrella organization Open Collective Inc.

        Here’s the announcement from the Open Collective Foundation. There’s also Open Collective Europe which will not be dissolving.

        Originally I remember OCF partially blaming OCI’s decisions as some of the reason OCF couldn’t be sustainable, but I can’t seem to find that anymore