Discourse OpenCollective Integration

Customization Plugin

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The discussion revolves around the Discourse OpenCollective Integration plugin, developed by Sudaraka, which synchronizes Discourse users with Open Collective backers and allows badge granting and group assignment for contributors. The plugin, hosted on GitHub, is currently in development, with features like user group synchronization still being finalized. Sudaraka confirmed the completion of group sync functionality and expressed willingness to continue development if others are interested. erlend_sh highlighted the plugin’s relevance with Vue.js joining Open Collective and invited them to beta test. jetatomic inquired about progress, noting the lack of recent updates despite earlier activity. modius and admhpkns questioned the plugin’s current status and the broader lack of integration efforts, wondering whether API complexity or low enthusiasm for Open Collective is the cause. The plugin remains active but underdeveloped, with interest from the community for more advanced features like tiered badges and access control based on sponsorship levels.

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Discourse OpenCollective

This plugin enables user synchronization with Discourse and OpenCollective users.

Github Repo : GitHub - sudaraka94/discourse-opencollective-integration: Opencollective integration for Discourse · GitHub

Features

  1. Grant a badge for the Open Collective Backers
  2. Add Open Collective backers into a seperate user group

About

Please suggest any new feature needed to be implemented or any bug here Feel free to use and ask questions here, or on Meta.

Demo

Here is a demo of the plugin in my local environment

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Good timing! Vue, which has a vibrant Discourse community, just announced their presence on OpenCollective:

https://medium.com/the-vue-point/vue-is-now-on-opencollective-1ef89ca1334b

I’ve asked them to help beta-test this plugin :crossed_fingers:

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@erlend_sh yeah indeed . Did they respond to your request ?

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Not yet. Keep an eye on that topic to stay in the loop.

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Yeah @erlend_sh will keep an eye on the topic. I started the development of the next stage too.

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How is dev going? I see there was a report that it’s working in October, and a recent update to the license, but no new activity otherwise. My OpenCollective account is not active yet, but I am hoping to be able to test this soon.

Were you able to get the group sync working?

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HI @jetatomic,
I paused dev work as I was working on a Plugin for Preventing Malicious Linking . As I’m done with the work now I am going to start working on the second phase of open collective integration. I will be done with Add Open Collective donators into a seperate user group feature very soon. I will ping you as soon as I’m done. I’m very glad that u are hoping to test the plugin :slight_smile: .

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Hi @jetatomic, I have completed group sync. I have tested it on my local discourse instance and its working :blush:

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Does this mean that different sponsor/backer types can be mapped to individual groups?

We’re looking at Open Collective too and would love to have:

  • different backer type assigned different badge (perhaps this can be done via groups?)
  • different backer type assigned different group

End game would be to have minor backers allocated tiered badges, and major sponsors allowed access to secure categories as long as their periodic payment is active.

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Is this still a thing? Does it work? Is it supported? GitHub repo looks stale.

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Six years on.. there doesn’t look like there has been any movement on Open Collective integration across the Discourse-verse.

What is this due to?

  • the difficulty of the open collective api to discourse integration, or;
  • a lack of enthusiasm for open collective as a financial platform

We’d love to have a Patreon like plugin for OC. Is anyone working on a such a thing? Can we help?

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Hello @modius, It’s been a while since I did any Discourse plugin development. The main reason is the time. I would be happy to help if anyone is interested in continuing the development.