Do you have an open source project? Do you want to also ask people in the community to contribute financially to the project? Then join the Open Source Collective. We are a non profit and our goal is to provide you with a legal home so that you can receive money from individuals and organizations.

👉 Apply here

Benefits:

• Your Own Virtual Entity: collect money, issue invoices and pay for expenses without all the hassle of creating and maintaining a separate legal entity.
• Full Transparency: your community can see in real time how much money you have, who is contributing and how much and how the money is spent.
• Expense Management: an expense is like a pull request; anyone can file it but only the core contributors can "merge" them.
• Open Data: you have access to all the data including the email addresses of your backers. We also provide an API.

Cost:

• 5% platform fee (Open Collective — used to develop the platform in open source)
• 5% host fee (Open Source Collective non profit — used to mutualize accounting and legal cost across all open source collectives)
• 2.9% + $0.30 payment processor fee (Stripe)

Conditions:

• You need to have at least two core contributors (people with write access to your repository)
• You need to have at least 100 stars on Github