Open Collective Foundation dissolving at end of 2024

I couldn't find a blog post or article for this, but I just got an email from Open Collective stating:

> It is with a heavy heart that I’m writing today to inform you that the Board of Directors of the Open Collective Foundation (OCF) has made the difficult decision to dissolve OCF, effective December 31, 2024.

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jpoesen 2y ago ↗

Some info seems to be appearing here: https://docs.opencollective.foundation, which is currently titled "Dissolution FAQ".

mitar 2y ago ↗

Is there more information about this? Can you share the full email?

jpoesen 2y ago ↗

Here's the full email:

https://daniel-lange.com/archives/186-Opencollective-shuttin...

EDIT: It's the OC Foundation, one of the US-based fiscal hosts, that is dissolving.

OC as a whole remains active, as do other fiscal hosts like the Open Source Collective (US) and OC Europe.

th0rgall 2y ago ↗

Thanks for posting this! I'm the admin of an OCF-hosted Collective, but I didn't receive that email yet.

ShaneCurcuru 2y ago ↗

The OCF shutdown will not affect the OC, OSC, OCE, OCNZ, or Social Change Nest UK operations, so this is only about the 600 collectives at the US public charity OCF.

If those acronyms sound confusing, read my explainer: https://communityovercode.com/2024/02/open-collective-founda...

And keep hitting refresh on the Dissolution FAQ noted elsethread the OCF is updating: https://docs.opencollective.foundation/

th0rgall 2y ago ↗

Related statement from the Executive Director of Open Collective Europe (OCE): https://opencollective.com/europe/updates/regarding-the-anno...

I'm personally the admin of a (very small) OCF collective. It's sad to see them stopping. When starting the collective ~2 years ago, OCF was an attractive option because of their fees, which were significantly lower than many other big fiscal hosts (5% instead of 10%). Their array of services was also impressive, but I never made use of any service outside the core Open Collective feature set. I wonder if raising their fees, or cutting down services, would have made the operation more sustainable.