[ddj] Budget visualization tool for journalists

[Jason Norwood-Young]

Hi Daniel

Open source <> gratis. You can still charge companies for the tool, even if it’s open source. It’s still your software, your copyright and your property.

As someone who decides on software to buy on a business level, I’m very reticent to put money into any software that isn’t open source. How can I check for security vulnerabilities? What if the company goes under or stops supporting the software? How can I improve the software myself if I need a new feature that they’re not willing to build it? How do I integrate my existing software stack with this new software?

Imho open source is a much more attractive commercial proposition than proprietary. I’m quite happy to pay for commercial open source. And all the code I write is open source, and sold to companies.

Perhaps consider a dual license? 

Kind regards
Jason

> On 14 Mar 2017, at 6:56 PM, Daniel Sedlacek <daniel at wikibudgets.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Avner, 
> 
> It took our team more than a year to develop the tool, we hope to monetize it by offering to private companies and this way to support our mission. That is why it is not an open source project. 
> 
> Thanks
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 14 March 2017 at 17:49, Avner Kantor <avnerkantor at gmail.com <mailto:avnerkantor at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Nice, but why not open source?
> 
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Sedlacek <daniel at wikibudgets.org <mailto:daniel at wikibudgets.org>> wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> We are a small team of idealists who developed a tool for visualizing budgets. 
> 
> 
> Showcase 1: https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015 <https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015> 
> 
> 
> Our mission is to visualize budgets of all public organizations of the world, from governments and states, to agencies, offices and bureaus, to cities and towns, to schools, hospitals and all public benefit corporations.
> 
> 
> Showcase 2: https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015 <https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015>
> 
> 
> So far we only have data for UK, US and Czech Republic governments along with all 6,280 Czech Cities and Towns. 
> 
> 
> Showcase 3: https://cz.wikibudgets.org/w/praha-2016 <https://cz.wikibudgets.org/w/praha-2016>
> 
> 
> What you can do with the tool:
> 
> 1/ 
> Embed any of the visualized budgets into your article or blog for free with a simple embed code.
> 
> 2/ 
> Create your own private budget <https://www.wikibudgets.org/pricing> visualization from $9/month to support our project. 
> 
> 3/ 
> Write about our story - how our small team took on the world with our mission <https://www.wikibudgets.org/#mission> to rationalize politics, kill alternative facts, pierce filter bubbles and stop corruption.
> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Sedlacek
> CEO
> wikibudgets.org <http://wikibudgets.org/>  | @wikibudgets <https://twitter.com/wikiBudgets>
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