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This seems to have happened very suddenly, but the Open Collective Foundation seems to be very quickly shuttering? Wow. Literally hundreds of collectives forced to close shop on very very short notice. And if they have employees, they have to lay everyone off?
There’s not a lot of detail on this yet, except a sad email from Open Source Collective telling everyone to calm down because they’re different entities, and this crappy faq that’s slowly being filled out: https://docs.opencollective.foundation/
@zkat whaaaat? Chaos.
@zkat some probably related info in the annual update post from Pia, but no explicit mention of OCF https://blog.opencollective.com/open-collective-inc-investor-update/
@ZaneSelvans I am extremely confused by what Open Collective, Open Collective Foundation, Open Source Collectives, and fiscal hosts all are and how they relate (or don’t) to each other tbh
(she/her) @agvbergin@mastodon.me.uk@zkat @ZaneSelvans I think it's
Open Collective - the company that runs/builds the platform
Open Collective Foundation - the 501(c)(3) that was acting as a fiscal host on that platform for many smaller projects that aren't necessarily incorporated themselves
Fiscal hosts - provide legal / financial services to OS projects, that don't have to incorporate themselves, helps them get off the ground
(Hope this is helpful and not a terrible Mastodon reply, apols if so.)
@agvbergin @zkat @ZaneSelvans Thank you— So if a project makes use of opencollective dot *com*, not opencollective dot *org*, is it affected or not? it is so weird they have an FAQ but don't explain there exactly what is or isn't affected
@mcc @zkat @ZaneSelvans Only the 8% of projects that use the Open Collective Foundation as their fiscal host are affected, I got that stat from here: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/fiscal-hosts/fiscal-hosts
And Open Collective (the platform) clarified earlier that most FOSS projects use Open Source Collective as their fiscal host.
(Fwiw, opencollective dot *org* resolves to https://opencollective.com/community, which seems like a specific project of Open Collective that has the Open Collective Foundation as its fiscal host.)