Code Signing Certificates’ Lifespans to Drop to One Year
Starting March 1, the lifespans of software-signing digital certificates will be reduced from 39 months to 15 months. Order a 2- or 3-year certificate ASAP before they’re officially gone Editor’s Note: Major CAs, including DigiCert and Sectigo, are rolling out these changes ahead of the March 1 deadline. Shorter codeContinue Reading
Y25 Cycle 7 Engineering Progress Report
Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. Cycle Seven In Review This cycle ran from November 2025 through January 2026 and focused on finalizing major financial sustainability feature work, improving user onboarding and security, and tidying up platform infrastructure.Continue Reading
Call for Testimonials: Get featured on our new homepage
Hi everyone, We are currently refreshing our marketing pages to better explain what Open Collective is and, more importantly, why this community matters. The heart of our platform isn’t the code—it’s the Collectives doing the work and the Fiscal Hosts supporting them. To help us welcome more people into theContinue Reading
OFi / Open Collective at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels
Some of our team, and members of the OFi and Open Collective family, will be in Brussels next week for FOSDEM 2026 (Saturday, January 31, 2026 and Sunday, February 1, 2026). We would love to meet in person, catch up with friends, and connect with new people who are curiousContinue Reading
Dispatch from PyPI Land: A Year (and a Half!) as the Inaugural PyPI Support Specialist
Hello there! I am Maria, the inaugural PyPI Support Specialist. I go by “Thespi-Brain” on GitHub. I wanted to provide a dispatch of how this past year (and a half!) has been regarding my role and PyPI. PyPI has now reached over a million users and has over 700,000 projects.Continue Reading
Release: Sidebar Reorganization V1
We’ve kickstarted our sidebar reorganization campaign. We will gradually introduce improvements to the sidebar over the next few cycles (first and primarily for organization dashboards and then gradually to individual and collective dashboards). Sidebar redesign Firstly our sidebar has had a makeover! You may have noticed that the sidebarContinue Reading
PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review
As 2025 comes to a close, it’s time to look back at another busy year for the Python Package Index. This year, we’ve focused on delivering critical security enhancements, rolling out powerful new features for organizations, improving the overall user experience for the millions of developers who rely on PyPIContinue Reading
Y25 Cycle 6 Engineering Progress Report
Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. Cycle Y25C6 ran from late September through early November 2025. This cycle focused heavily on quality assurance, user experience improvements, and preparing major features for public release. Cycle Six In Review ThisContinue Reading
Development Cycle Six
Providing insight into our product roadmap and, subsequently, the projects being worked on in our six-week cycles. We’ve been working hard and are excited to share a summary of the projects completed during Cycle Six. Cycle Six In Review This cycle focused heavily on quality assurance, user experience improvements,Continue Reading
Independent Collectives are becoming Organizations
TL;DR: Independent Collectives are being converted to Organizations to make the platform more consistent. There is no change in functionality. From its beginning in 2017, the platform was built around three main types of accounts: Individuals, Collectives, and Organizations. Over time we expanded what these accounts could do and introducedContinue Reading