Are there any plans to make the donations transparent? Maybe show app’s annual / monthly budget like open collective? Perhaps user info is not necessary, but overall budget would be really nice.
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Interesting to see this post. As a pretty newb to the FOSS world, I would like to see certain programs supported that I use.
As a programmer, and as a user I value peoples time and effort.
Given that, I was imagining that a subscription model would be wonderful to opt in FOSS to some remuneration, regularly - like Patreon for music.
This Open Collective seems to have been that, but appears to have shut down 
What happened? Did it never get enough support?
I would love to pay say $20 a month for all the FOSS projects I use. Some simply software like Flathub that tracks the software, divides it according to my wishes, or by default according to % of total hours of software used.
With some controls on the “size” of the software. Eg. a Panel Applet might run all the time, but it is tiny in comparison to say Thunderbird in complexity etc.
Is that what Open Collective was trying to achieve?
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Opencollective, the platform, itself, shutdown. GNOME Foundation is now the fiscal host for Flatpak.
Flathub donations are coming, see Request for Proposals: Flathub Program Management
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