Ben is strategic director at open source collective, hosting 2,500 open source projects on whose behalf they accept and pay 25m a year, all using the open collective platform. He’s also a director at Open Finance Consortium, the new non-profit home of Open Collective, which he negotiated last year. Ben and Andrew have worked together for a decade on services like libraries.io, depedencyci.com, octobox.io, and now ecosyste.ms.
Benjamin Nickolls has been a guest on 4 episodes.
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Episode 270: Ben Nickolls & Andrew Nesbitt on Ecosyste.ms
May 23rd, 2025 | 44 mins 26 secs
Ben and Andrew join host Richard to explore ecosyste.ms, a project using open source metadata to guide funding and support key projects with smart, ecosystem-aware algorithms.
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Episode 97: Anthony Ronda and the League of Extraordinary Foundry VTT Developers, games, and Open Source
November 12th, 2021 | 34 mins 40 secs
Anthony fills us in on the history of the League, the background of Foundry, and the open source module that was created.
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Episode 88: Foundations Roundtable: From Maintain to Sustain
August 6th, 2021 | 46 mins 53 secs
Today we're giving you the audio of a roundtable about the role of foundations in open source, by Ewa Jodlowska, Rachel Lawson, Leah Silen, Ben Nickolls, Jory Burson, and Karen Sandler, hosted by Duane O'Brien and Richard Littauer.
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Episode 12: Funding of open source communities with Benjamin Nickolls
October 1st, 2019 | 48 mins 41 secs