OPPORTUNITY: Collection Builder Community Developers Program

The CollectionBuilder team is accepting proposals that “enhance, extend, experiment with, and/or document CollectionBuilder.” This opportunity is grant-funded and will pay a small budget to accepted proposals, which are open between September 24 and October 9, 2026. From the program website:

Projects should be re-useable enhancements and resources that benefit the CollectionBuilder community with new tools, ideas, and solutions (while also supporting new contributors). Potential ideas include, but are in no way limited to:

• CollectionBuilder Built Ons (reusable templates that extends and remixes CB for new purposes).
• CB Add Ons (documented packages that add new features to CollectionBuilder projects, providing self-contained dependencies, templates, and recipes. They generally support unusual formats or functionality beyond Items found in typical collections).
• Porting CB from Jekyll to another static generator or framework.
• Create a theming system or new curated themes that can swap into the default template.
• Create new documentation content such as interactive walkthroughs, workshop content, or special topics that would be useful to the community, such as how to improve accessibility, carry out user testing in digital collections, build in digital preservation practices, or solutions for deploying sites in the wild.
• Create new tools that support collection creation, management, or preservation that simplify workflows for users.

Interested developers can submit their proposals in the linked form on the webpage.