Title: Create a New Collective
Author: Hugh Lashbrooke
Published: March 18, 2019
Last modified: July 30, 2024

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# Create a New Collective

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Go to [https://opencollective.com/create-account](https://opencollective.com/create-account)
and create a **personal profile**.

After your account has been created and verified your email address, sign in to 
create your new collective.

Click on your username in the top right corner of the screen and select the “+ New”
button next to the “My Collectives” heading:

![](https://make.wordpress.org/community/files/2019/03/collective1.png)

Select “Other” for the type of collective you are creating:

![](https://make.wordpress.org/community/files/2019/03/collective2.png)

Fill in your collective details using the following guides:

 * **Name:** The name of your event – e.g. “do_actiondo_action do_action hackathons
   are community-organised events that are focussed on using WordPress to give deserving
   charitable organisations their own online presence. Learn more on [doaction.org](https://doaction.org/).
   Cape Town” – _do not include the year of the event in the Collective name_.
 * **Short description:** A one-sentence description of your event – no specific
   text required.
 * **Website:** The URL where you are managing your event – e.g. “https://doaction.
   org/event/cape-town-2019/”.
 * **Tags:** Optional tags to label your event.

After collective creation, you will be taken to the collective page. Click on the“
edit collective” link in the banner to add more information about your collective:

![](https://make.wordpress.org/community/files/2019/03/collective3-1024x347.png)

There’s a lot of information you can add at this point, so take your time to get
it all in there. Remember that you can come back and edit this info at any time.
Here’s a guide to the areas that are important to note:

 * **Info**
   Fill in any extra info you like here – the _Country_ and _Long description_
   are particularly useful but optional.
 * **Images**
   Add an avatarAvatar An avatar is an image or illustration that specifically
   refers to a character that represents an online user. It’s usually a square box
   that appears next to the user’s name. (appears at the top of the banner on your
   collective page) and a cover image (background image for the banner) if you like.
 * **Members**
   Add other members of your organising team who should have access 
   to managing this collective (i.e. editing these details and submitting expenses).
   Add each member as a “CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress.
   The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Contributor” and fill in their name
   and email address. If they do not have an Open Collective profile then they will
   receive an email with a sign-up link before they can start to manage things.
 * **Goals**
   Add your event budget as a ‘yearly goal’ – you can always change this
   later as you finalise your budget, so you can leave this empty for now:

![](https://make.wordpress.org/community/files/2019/03/collective4-1024x476.png)

 * F**iscal host**
   Ignore this for now – you’ll add your collective to the WordPress
   FoundationWordPress Foundation The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization
   founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source
   project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software. Find more
   on [wordpressfoundation.org](https://wordpressfoundation.org/). host a little
   later.
 * **Tiers**
   Set your planned sponsorship tiers – you can always return to this 
   later once you have a better idea of your event budget. You can set this up in
   whatever way you feel works best for your budget and community. A flexible donation
   model is suggested, but you can do this in whatever way works best for your community:

![](https://make.wordpress.org/community/files/2019/03/collective5-1024x659.png)

 * **Expenses**
   This is optional and probably not necessary. You can dictate an 
   expense policy here to remind your core contributorsCore Contributors Core contributors
   are those who have worked on a release of WordPress, by creating the functions
   or finding and patching bugs. These contributions are done through Trac. [https://core.trac.wordpress.org](https://core.trac.wordpress.org)
   what kind of expenses they can submit.
 * **Connected Accounts**
   Feel free to connect your collective to a community Twitter
   account to automatically thank people who donate money.
 * **Advanced**
   You can set a new URLURL A specific web address of a website or 
   web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org slug for 
   your collective if you like (it will default to auto-creating a slug from your
   event name). You can also switch on markdown support if you would like that to
   be available in the text editors on the site for you.

First published

March 18, 2019

Last updated

July 30, 2024

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