[ddj] Budget visualization tool for journalists

Daniel Sedlacek daniel at wikibudgets.org
Wed Mar 15 09:01:29 UTC 2017


Hi Jason

that is a very interesting proposition, I am going to discuss it with my
partner.

Any other advice? Your feedback is really helping us.

Thanks!
Daniel


On 14 March 2017 at 18:28, Jason Norwood-Young <jason at code4sa.org> wrote:

> 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> wrote:
>
>> Nice, but why not open source?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Sedlacek <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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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  | @wikibudgets <https://twitter.com/wikiBudgets>
>>>
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