From a3d3984957e4ae148dbf977f543288c0d9f3a430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mj-saunders Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:51:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update '02a. Draft Funding Application for NLNET' --- 02a.-Draft-Funding-Application-for-NLNET.md | 66 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) diff --git a/02a.-Draft-Funding-Application-for-NLNET.md b/02a.-Draft-Funding-Application-for-NLNET.md index c4ce236..b53ed3a 100644 --- a/02a.-Draft-Funding-Application-for-NLNET.md +++ b/02a.-Draft-Funding-Application-for-NLNET.md @@ -32,25 +32,25 @@ You **can apply to compete in multiple calls** in the same round if your project ## Thematic call -**Contact information** +**Contact information** witchescauldron@openworlds.info -**Your name (max. 100 characters)** +**Your name (max. 100 characters)** Hamish Campbell -**Email address** +**Email address** witchescauldron@openworlds.info -**Phone numbers** +**Phone numbers** +4479365452 -**Organisation (max. 100 characters)** +**Organisation (max. 100 characters)** The OMN is a collective, building and hosting standards-based socio-political software. -**Country** +**Country** UK/ Mauritius/ EU Nomad -**General project information** +**General project information** Working toward a #KISS and #4opens, grassroots web of trust. We focus on a human scale, outlining a human-understandable workflow used to develop apps for real world use.
We are agnostic with regard to the underlying technology and programming, as long as it is #4opens based. @@ -64,15 +64,16 @@ The codebase is a distillation of the perspectives of a radical, grassroots, soc The OGB is based on [Sortition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition), the [KISS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) principle and [#4Opens](https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/4opens/wiki) workflows. -**Project name (max. 100 characters)** OGB (OpenWeb Governance Body) +**Project name (max. 100 characters)** +OGB (OpenWeb Governance Body) -**Website / wiki** +**Website / wiki** https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody/wiki/ -[Application Note] +[Application Note] Please **be short and to the point** in your answers; focus primarily on **the what and how**, not so much on the why. **Add longer descriptions as attachments** (see below). If English isn't your first language, don't worry - our reviewers don't care about spelling errors, only about great ideas. We apologise for the inconvenience of having to submit in English. On the up side, you can be as technical as you need to be (but you don't have to). Do **stay concrete**. **Use plain text** in your reply only, if you need any HTML to make your point please include this as attachment. -**Abstract: Can you explain the whole project and its expected outcome(s).** +**Abstract: Can you explain the whole project and its expected outcome(s).** As a socal coding project the #OGB is not a traditional top down fight for power like the #mainstreaming agenda. Rather, it is a bottom-up grassroots fight for /sharing/ power, as found in many of the 20th century social movements that acturly created the best of the current mainstream. @@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ The Fediverse comes from the "cats" of libertarianism and to a lesser extent ana We aim to shape things such that to be "native" in the fediverse means to use #4opens code to build "society" up from the roots. -**Have you been involved with projects or organisations relevant to this project before? And if so, can you tell us a bit about your contributions?** +**Have you been involved with projects or organisations relevant to this project before? And if so, can you tell us a bit about your contributions?** The project comes from the life times of lived experience of activist culture. We are coding an important/hidden part of our society. We as a team have been at the heart of organising these events for generations, back to my grandparents.
We have been involved with social change groups from squats, protest camps, climate camps; to indymedia, Reclaim the Streets; to XR and even Occupy.
@@ -103,13 +104,13 @@ All of our team have worked in social adaptation and technology for there career Currently we run 6 servers hosting public instances within the fediverse, including http://visionon.tv, grassroots journalism running for over ten years. -**Requested support** +**Requested support** Development and stage one rollout and testing. We will be looking for further funding to build stage two. -**Requested Amount max amount (in Euro)** +**Requested Amount max amount (in Euro)** 50K -**Explain what the requested budget will be used for?** +**Explain what the requested budget will be used for?** This will be initially paid into https://opencollective.com/open-media-network. @@ -117,28 +118,28 @@ It will be used to pay 4 people to work on the project at a fixed rate of ten th The project team includes: -* Tom - programming manager, coding, UX -has 30 years of experience in development and project management +* Tom - programming manager, coding, UX + has 30 years of experience in development and project management -* Saunders - programming, sysadmin -has keept the 6 OMN servers online for the last 6 years, has been involoved in #OMN coding projects and is a permaculture designer/teacher working on grassroots social aid +* Saunders - programming, sysadmin + has keept the 6 OMN servers online for the last 6 years, has been involoved in #OMN coding projects and is a permaculture designer/teacher working on grassroots social aid -* Hamish - project management, outreach, and testing social use -has 30 years experience of runnning grassroots social tech projects, and has a firm grasp of what does and does not work, and what needs to work +* Hamish - project management, outreach, and testing social use + has 30 years experience of runnning grassroots social tech projects, and has a firm grasp of what does and does not work, and what needs to work -* New coder to be found - programming -we need a solid "activist" coder to widen the OMN collective, to build sustainability and keep up levels of ongoing support +* New coder to be found - programming + we need a solid "activist" coder to widen the OMN collective, to build sustainability and keep up levels of ongoing support Social outreach and testing/feedback; this is core to the coding. The project is developed as it is used. -**Does the project have other funding sources, both past and present?** +**Does the project have other funding sources, both past and present?** it comes from the grassroots, so no, but to make it real will take some resources hence the grant application (If you want, you can in addition attach a budget at the bottom of the form) -**Compare your own project with existing or historical efforts** +**Compare your own project with existing or historical efforts** Foundation funding agenders oftern have a bad affect on openweb projects agenders. lets brefly look at some projects https://decidim.org is #NGO process this like https://www.loomio.org has, as offline process, been imposed lots of time in activism and has always failed. Formal process is a BAD tool for "herding cats" in social chalange/challange groups. @@ -152,30 +153,29 @@ Formal vs informal - both build and use "consesuess" Link for more info https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody/wiki/Looking-at-existing-projects -**What are significant technical challenges you expect to solve during the project, if any? +**What are significant technical challenges you expect to solve during the project, if any? Fill a obvuise hole in our set of openweb digital tools, not repuduce the mastakes of the past. I think this last one is the hardist thing to solve. take something that has worked for gennerations and turn it into #openweb code. -**Describe the ecosystem of the project, and how you will engage with relevant actors and promote the outcomes? -** +**Describe the ecosystem of the project, and how you will engage with relevant actors and promote the outcomes?** we start with sub coultures of fedivers and actavisam, but rapidly move beyond this as the project UX and workflow matures to mainstram producer groups. Stage one rollout and testing will be for the fedivers, a local street markit and a communerty group working for bike use in chisick, london. -**Attachments +**Attachments** Attachments: add any additional information about the project that may help us to gain more insight into the proposed effort, for instance a more detailed task description, a justification of costs or relevant endorsements. Attachments should only contain background information, please make sure that the proposal without attachments is self-contained and concise. Don't waste too much time on this. Really. Accepted formats for attachments are: HTML, PDF, OpenDocument Format and plain text files.** -**How may we handle your information +**How may we handle your information** (If you haven't, please check our privacy policy). When your project gets selected, we will legally need to retain your information for compliance purposes for at least seven years. Also, in case you are submitting to one of the NGI related funds, at that point we will need to share some information with our (not-for-profit) partner organisations in order so they may assist you with mentoring as well as complementary services e.g. accessibility, documentation, localisation, packaging, etc. By submitting a proposal you grant us permission to handle the data in the proposal in the manner described. What should we do in the other case, e.g. when your project is not immediately selected? -**I allow NLnet Foundation to keep the information I submit on record, should future funding opportunities arise +**I allow NLnet Foundation to keep the information I submit on record, should future funding opportunities arise** -I want NLnet Foundation to erase all information should my project proposal not be granted - Send me a copy of this application.** +I want NLnet Foundation to erase all information should my project proposal not be granted.
+Send me a copy of this application.     \ No newline at end of file