Open Collective's funds for open source
Open Collective has put out an
announcement describing its "Funds for Open Source" initiative, which
is aimed at making it easy for corporations to fund the work of individual
developers. "Big companies call the process for paying for stuff
'procurement'. It’s often pretty involved, with contracts, invoices,
purchasing order numbers, and bureaucracy—a painful thing to go through
repeatedly for small amounts. It's practically a blocker. It is so much
simpler and more practical to ask corporations to make one large payment,
to one vendor. Make it easy and companies will invest more."