Pia Mancini joined the show to talk about Open Collective, her background and where she came from, her passion to upgrade democracy, funding and sustaining open source, what open collective is, how it works, how you can support your favorite open source communities, but more importably how you can take part and start your own collective.

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Featuring:

• Pia Mancini – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Pia gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2014 on How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era (over a million views 😱)
• DemocracyOS
• Democracy Earth
• OpenCollective.com
• Open Collective — Open Source Collective
• Webpack on Open Collective
• 2016 on Open Collective, and what’s in the works for 2017!
• Open Collective Issues
• Support for paid events - Issue #177
• Together we crowdfunded a yearly budget of over $100,000 for Open Source
• Check out Gratipay and our past episode with Chad Whitacre.

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