#funding
2018-11-15
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@patcon set the channel purpose: For discussion how how funding does and can work in the g0v community.
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@aelcenganda I forget, did you say that there was a more general place to discuss funding -- potential experiments and various philosophies of using money in community?
Anyhow, here are some links for future travellers:
*Nadia Eghbal* is a hero. She is doing so much primary research on open source. And she writes great/accessible articles. She has both crowdsourced and grant-sourced her independent research.
*Nadia Eghbal* is a hero. She is doing so much primary research on open source. And she writes great/accessible articles. She has both crowdsourced and grant-sourced her independent research.
This one got circulated a ton when it came out: https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure
Her review of open source grants: https://nadiaeghbal.com/grant-programs
Some other amazing summary work that she did -- essentially an awesome list for funding:
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
Her list of microgrant programs for reference and learning: https://github.com/nayafia/microgrants
This one got circulated a ton when it came out: https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure
Ford Foundation
Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report,
Her review of open source grants: https://nadiaeghbal.com/grant-programs
Nadia Eghbal
As more open source projects attract funding, an important follow-up question becomes: “How should they spend it?”
re: SSBC's community-focussed grant system (funded by crypto-dollars)
Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a decentralized social network protocol. It's community got some crypto-money to start a grant program. They are running it in a very community-centric way. The micro-grants are for building community, not building product (the product is seen as an inevitable side-effect of commmunity):
https://github.com/ssbc/grants-process
(The links in the doc above are the conversations about funding on the SSB network. They're not available from regular web right now. I'll need to find a good viewer to share them. :/)
https://github.com/ssbc/grants-process
(The links in the doc above are the conversations about funding on the SSB network. They're not available from regular web right now. I'll need to find a good viewer to share them. :/)
My friend Ben got a grant, and decided to run his own funding experiment with it: https://github.com/benhylau/ssbc-grants-scuttlemesh
Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a decentralized social network protocol. It's community got some crypto-money to start a grant program. They are running it in a very community-centric way. The micro-grants are for building community, not building product (the product is seen as an inevitable side-effect of commmunity):
https://github.com/ssbc/grants-process
(The links in the doc above are the conversations about funding on the SSB network. They're not available from regular web right now. I'll need to find a good viewer to share them. :/)
https://github.com/ssbc/grants-process
(The links in the doc above are the conversations about funding on the SSB network. They're not available from regular web right now. I'll need to find a good viewer to share them. :/)
GitHub
grants-process. Contribute to ssbc/grants-process development by creating an account on GitHub.
My friend Ben got a grant, and decided to run his own funding experiment with it: https://github.com/benhylau/ssbc-grants-scuttlemesh
SSBC grant for RPi ScuttleMesh workshop. Contribute to benhylau/ssbc-grants-scuttlemesh development by creating an account on GitHub.
Some other amazing summary work that she did -- essentially an awesome list for funding:
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
A handy guide to financial support for open source - nayafia/lemonade-stand
Her list of microgrant programs for reference and learning: https://github.com/nayafia/microgrants
A list of microgrant programs for your good ideas. Contribute to nayafia/microgrants development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Doc: https://hackmd.io/s/BkZ2q996X
Doc: https://hackmd.io/s/BkZ2q996X
2018-11-16
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