To promote the professional development of open source software and hardware through financial and professional services support.
- Ongoing funding of established projects as selected by organization / members
- Incubate new projects via grant process
- Provided professional services to members
- Mentoring
- Legal
- Etc.
- Organization of Peers
- Profesionalism
- Transparency
- Platform/Language/Industry/Idea Agnostic
- Many more as defined by community...
- Individual Member Dues
- Organization Member Dues
- Donations
- Federal/State/Local Grants
- Collect Underpants
Below is a high level SWAG of how the organization could be funded within 1-2 years of inception.
- Individual Member Dues @ $100 / year * 100,000 members = $10,000,000
- Average Organization Member Dues @ ~$20,000 / year * 1,000 members = $20,000,000
- Grants = ~$5,000,000
- Donations = ~$5,000,000
- Organizational Overhead @ ~10%
Investment / Year in Community = $36,000,000
- Values and actions will be such that Membership will be a badge of honor for individuals and organizations alike
- Friendly to both the root values of open source and an organizations desire to use open source to enhance their revenue stream
Inspired by threads spawning from @izs article/tweet here: https://twitter.com/izs/status/356796701501173761