Current tasks

Funding

Three conditions should be met to create a credible fundraising solicitation for high net worth (hnw) individuals and foundations. (1) Clear presentation of the project's mission and significance. (2) Plan to achieve that mission with milestones, budget breakdown, etc. (3) One completed iteration of the Open Source Development Pipeline that shows how each of the 40 items will be developed and 'opened.'

Possible Funding Channels

• High net work individuals (ex. rich kids, financial service professionals
• Progressive foundations See list at Foundations
• True Fans (subscription basis)
• Selling hardware

Getting collaborators

It was agreed that the first thing is to create a platform at opensourceecology.org that facilitates collaboration. The priority now is creating this platform; then we can start actively going after collaborators from Hackerspaces, colleges etc. etc.

We can get interns to do certain things.

Opensourceecology.org

To do

• Devin: Infographic
• Isaiah: Explainer video
• Devin: Talk to guy who may be interested in designing the OSE pattern language icons -Icons_for_Proposal_2011
• Conor: Install Drupal at opensourceecology.org
• Devin and Eric: Set up foundation
• Elifarley: Talk to graphic designer about brochures
• Conor and Devin: Look for Drupal experts
• Conor: Research different collaboration platforms used by successful open hardware projects
• Devin: Tune up BeeX funding infrastructure to allow integration. Enable subscriptions.
• Miquel: Organize next meeting (by e-mail)
• Miquel: Assess bettermeans.org versus Open Pario as collaboration platform
• Miquel: Start to restructure wiki according to the schema here