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Oleg Lavrovsky edited this page Nov 15, 2022 · 7 revisions

Thoughts and inspirations to advance the dribdat collective and set up a host organization to back the project.

Besides the GitHub organization, an Open Collective is the current (dis)organizational principle of dribdat, located at https://opencollective.com/dribdat - providing a virtual structure and a modicum of transparency around the initiative.

We can also very much inspire ourselves from Open Collective as a project, e.g. [Strategic Focus] API, Open Collective as a platform · Issue #5140 · opencollective/opencollective.

Today, Open Collective is mostly a "website" and we would like to evolve in the direction of becoming more a "platform".

What wayposts do I see forward to build dribdat up into an active collective?

Cooperative

Currently associations like Opendata.ch, ONIA and CH Open that are supporting momentum by running events on dribdat, and making it also possible for me to invest many hours of maintenance and development work in the project.

The associative/cooperative model is trendy and attractive in many ways. Open source friendly, championing software freedoms and important causes, we could set up a Swiss Verein (association) or Genossenschaft (co-op) committed to the goals of supporting this project. It would probably be the best way to continue on a non-profit-oriented model.

Currently the POSMO cooperative (that @loleg is involved in) is the closest model to where dribdat could go.

See The Vera List Center Seminar Work in the Cultural Economy We Want: Cooperatives

UnFound Accelerator – open for applications - Do you have a clear and compelling idea for an ethical digital business? Are you interested in setting it up as a co‑operative? Then we'd love to hear from you!

"Es gibt viele Menschen mit innovativen, gemeinwohlorientierten Ideen. In der Regel fallen sie ohne Anbindung an Organisationen oder Institutionen durch das Raster klassischer Förderlogiken. Der Prototype Fund unterstützt diese Personen dabei, ihre Ideen einen Schritt weiter zu bringen. Er schafft Zeit und Raum, damit sie ihren Ideen nachgehen, diese explorieren und auch Fehler machen können" -- https://www.stiftung-mercator.ch/journal/neue-wege-der-foerderung

Förderung Die Hirschmann-Stiftung ist eine gemeinnützige schweizerische Stiftung mit Sitz in Zug.

Catalyst Cooperative Catalyst is a small data analysis cooperative working on electricity regulation and climate change.

SUPERMARKT× Coops & DAOs / Platform Coops Community Call

Journalism and action to open up the public sector The Civio Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Spain which monitors public authorities

Canadian Open Data Society Organizations Supporting Open Data — Canadian Open Data Society

Post-Industrial "Labor" I’m a supporter of RadicalXChange and their mission of exploring new ways of structuring society.

Company

A few months ago I wrote a lean model canvas for dribdat as part of a circular economy workshop at Impact Hub bern. Some of these ideas went into a Trello board. I've interfaced with people who work at B-corporations, and inquired into starting a company with the local startup-support office. For most people with a "digital product" this seems to be a decent way forward.

The question was considered on whether it would make sense to set up a "charitable" (Gemeinnützige) LLC to finance and administer development of a product. Whether a limited liability company is classified as a non-profit organisation depends on the decision of the competent tax authority. It would be best to ask them directly (i.e. Bern or Basel) which conditions have to be fulfilled (e.g. certain clauses in the articles of association) before founding a gGmbH company

It certainly is important in any product to explore the revenue model...

The Strategic approaches model, OPENNEXT, 2022, under CC-BY-SA.

To dogfood it...

Outseta "We scratched our own itch and built the tech stack we wish existed when we first started building SaaS start-ups."

And find some angels...

"Consider starting your own business. I'm aiming to help people like yourself startup:" https://cxo.industries/

Purpose - What is Steward Ownership?

A fair data economy is built upon collaboration - Sitra Preface Data is an increasingly important raw material for economic growth.

Teamshares Create $10 billion of new wealth for lower income Americans through employee ownership.

hirn® - Data Anlaysis as a Service (DAaaS) Ein Kind stellt im Schnitt 500 Fragen am Tag.

Chaos

One of the nice things about having a "weekend project", an itch that you keep on scratching, a deliciously messy bit of software to tinker with endlessly, is that it remains a perpetually unfinished poem. It's purpose cloudy and shifting, without any customers or investors or marketers to drill down the selling points.

Here are some random links that more-or-less support the course of continued inaction on this topic:

dribdat is the people!

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