[OpenSpending] Contents of openspending Digest, Vol 54, Issue 5 - Financial sustainability

Mon Jun 23 12:42:20 UTC 2014

Dear Fellow Community members,
As an UK civil servant I can't directly become involved in your fund raising activities.

However, I would suggest contacting these organisations:
- the TaxPayers' Alliance: http://www.taxpayersalliance.com
- What do they know: -  https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
- Trades Union Conference: http://www.tuc.org.uk/
- Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals - Cilip: http://www.cilip.org.uk/
- The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians - Biall: https://www.google.co.uk/#q=BIALL
- Big Lottery Fund : http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/
- Freepint: http://www.freepint.com/

Kind regards,
MarySusan
MarySusan Barry
Information Specialist | Information & Technology Directorate | Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) | 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET | 020 7215 8622 | MarySusan.Barry at bis.gsi.gov.uk

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Financial sustainability of OpenSpending - please share
      your ideas! (Rufus Pollock)

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:03:19 +0100
From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org<mailto:rufus.pollock at okfn.org>>
To: OpenSpending Discussion List <openspending at lists.okfn.org<mailto:openspending at lists.okfn.org>>
Subject: Re: [OpenSpending] Financial sustainability of OpenSpending -
        please share your ideas!
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Really welcome any thoughts from folks here.

Especially interested if anyone has ideas on sponsorship e.g. of servers or sysadmin :-)

Rufus

On 12 June 2014 20:38, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org<mailto:anders.pedersen at okfn.org>> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> OpenSpending has seen significant growth since its formal launch in 2011.
> In the last year alone the amount of data in OpenSpending has doubled
> (from 12m to 25m records today) and we anticipate this growth continuing.
>
> This is a cause for celebration but is also putting significant strain
> on the infrastructure. The OpenSpending Steering group
> <http://community.openspending.org/about/governance/members-of-the-ste
> ering-group/>
> therefore set out on its last call
> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1jCB-RquGYeW9mm466ViucM
> RjggbCxa0pGZDH5JThcRc/edit#> to discuss these challenges in greater
> detail in this document
> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1r3KHUiQ4g4av_E22wIZLEv
> G_m9OtbKn13o98bv70nnY/edit#heading=h.w9mt2xsythb3>
> - see also below.
>
> For the last several years, Open Knowledge has been able to sponsor
> the entirety of the core infrastructure (servers, sysadmin, essential
> bugfixes) thanks both to the limited size of the project and the great
> support of the Knight Foundation for the SpendingStories project from 2011-2013.
>
> With the increasing technical demands and the ending of that support
> we need to secure additional resources (whether financial or in-kind)
> to support OpenSpending Project and its infrastructure going forward.
>
>
> *Options for Securing Support*
>
> A few models have been outlined as ideas for further consideration:
>
>    -
>
>    Sponsors/Partner/Member organisations / subscription model
>    -
>
>       For this case we have drawn up a draft OpenSpending Project
>       Sponsorship Partners Outline
>       <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/17NHmQzEb_zOT5NAei-IkQTgWMdiOvD5ulBQIw0pptoU/edit#heading=h.wjyni2paf88v>
>       -
>
>       These could be companies, NGOs, IGOs, funders or others
>       -
>
>       For NGOs may not directly sponsor but may secure support as part of
>       existing or new grant-funding
>       -
>
>    Community Volunteers e.g. for sysadmin
>    -
>
>    Crowd-funding / with funding targets set across countries
>    -
>
>       May be some specific communities who are interested
>       -
>
>    Donations
>    -
>
>       How to collect and administrate these?
>       -
>
>       Would we need a campaign?
>       -
>
>    Please add your suggestions here!
>
>
> We want to hear your thoughts and ideas about how the OpenSpending
> project could be made more financially sustainable in this thread or
> with comments directly in the document
> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1r3KHUiQ4g4av_E22wIZLEvG_m9OtbKn13o98bv70nnY/edit#heading=h.w9mt2xsythb3>?
>
>
> You can also comment on the draft OpenSpending Project Sponsorship
> Partners Outline
> <https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/17NHmQzEb_zOT5NAei-IkQT
> gWMdiOvD5ulBQIw0pptoU/edit#heading=h.wjyni2paf88v>
>
> *Next steps*
> We will discuss these proposals until the next OpenSpending Community
> call on *Wednesday June 25th*. After the call we will publish it on
> the governance page
> <http://community.openspending.org/about/governance/> of the OpenSpending Community site.
>
> Looking forward to hear your thoughts!
>
> Best,
> Anders
>
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