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Are there any sites that help build groups around current and upcoming open-source projects, and also encourage people to make stuff open-source - perhaps with pledges?

... a more business-focused GitHub.

... an OpenSea for inventors.

Imagine if money spent on NFTs would go to cool projects instead of avatars!




> Are there any sites that help build groups around current and upcoming open-source projects, and also encourage people to make stuff open-source - perhaps with pledges?

Open Collective is designed to do exactly that:

https://opencollective.com/


Great.. in Discover, I think it would be good to be able to see "Collectives near me" to bring people physically together.


Also imagine if money spent on stock buybacks went somewhere productive. :/


If a company can't think of anything useful and cost-effective to spend their money on, giving that money back in the way that passes through the largest portion of it is the most productive thing they could do.

Let the investors allocate their money efficiently, rather than buying a gold mine as a movie theatre company (as an example).


rather than buying a gold mine as a movie theatre

That's a pretty random example. Crypto? Maybe. But it's not like AMC is going to randomly get into the actual physical mining busin-- (hold on, it's 2022, lmgt just in case)

Yes, a perfectly good example.


Yes, very 2022-esque. xD




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