[okfn-discuss] [ANN] Open-source innovation platform Cofundos.org

[Rufus Pollock]

Sören Auer wrote:
> Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> This is wonderful Soren. I also wonder if it could be adapted/expanded 
>> to support what I've jokingly termed: 'Open Offsets' (in analogy with 
>> 'carbon offsets').
> 
> Very interesting idea. But I think you need a very established and 
> well-known organization (such as FSF or OSI) supporting the fund (at 
> least for the open-source part) in order for big companies to trust.

I entirely agree. I think the basic idea was to get a 'board' of the 
great and the good in that particular field to be the fund allocators.

> Technically, I think a company donating money to such a fund should 
> define in which portions it should be divided to individual projects 
> finally.

That would be great if the org/person was willing to do that (or you 
could have some voting setup). However, often a large organization (or 
even a small one) might simply want to 'donate and forget' -- leaving it 
up to others to do the analysis and allocation but knowing that they had 
done their 'offset'.

> BTW: I forgot to mention that Cofundos is not limited to open-source 
> developments - open-knowledge developments can be done with it too. 
> Since, the platform receives quite some attention right now - you also 
> might want to add some OKFN projects and maybe we can attract more 
> enthusiasts for OK this way too ;-)

Good idea Soren :)

~rufus