@cam @jacob I think a better open funding model is...

@cam @jacob I think a better open funding model is sponsor foundations or cooperatives.

They should adopt #FOSS projects and deal with the hassle of asking for donations or applying for big grants.

The reason I like the model is that, ideally, I can pick one and offload to them the cognitive load of picking projects and splitting the money amongst them them. Hopefully they would build for themselves a trusty reputation

Like 11 February at 20:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on freeradical.zone

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Camilo

@muzzle @jacob right but then people have a tendency to complain a lot about how the foundations are run, or that they take corporate money and thus corporate priorities, and ofc there's the general nonprofit problem of whether or not they perpetuate the problem they attempt to solve

11 February at 21:36 | Open on hachyderm.io

Emme Ci 🍉

@cam @jacob that's why I was thinking about a cooperative. When you donate you become a member (say, for one year) and you get voting rights over what the coop should do with its money, and where it should go looking for additional funding.

12 February at 6:28 | Open on freeradical.zone