OSE Microfunding Proposal

This is a proposal for microfunding various OSE projects.

Background

The proposal implements the 5 motivators of Giving as shared in the TED Talk of Taylor Conroy - How to Build a School in 3 Hours (worth watching, 19min).

• Group Mentality - we love to be part of a group
• Tangible Outcome - people love too see a visual representation for their giving
• Microgiving - small amount per day for several days. People relate to few dollars a day far better than big chunks
• Personal Connection - the relationship between the potential donor and the fundraiser is far more important than the cause
• Recognition - We love recognition. It correlates a really good emotion to the act of giving making people far more out to give and more continuously in the future. And inspires other people to give and recognizing them, inspires other people to give.

Proposal

The proposal is visualized in the picture below. It contains 4 main pages, few administration pages and one script page.

Main Pages:

• Project Page - describes the project and enables donations (support).
• Recognition Page - personal recognition page of the supporter, enables donations.
• Share Page - a supporter can share the project with friends and invite them to support it.
• Invited Page - the page a supporter friend will receive after being invited, enables donation.

Administration Pages:

• Project Admin Page - manages the available projects.
• Login Page - supporter can login and manage their data.

Script Page:

• Embeddable Badge - for a given supporter Id returns an embeddable badge.

Applications

Possible applications of this microfunding proposal are:

• True Fans Campaign
• Individual OSE Projects

Needed

• 2-4 (or more) web programmers. At least one of them should be well experienced in web frameworks, and one of them is desired to have CSS & Javascript experience.
• Tangible Outcome materials - pictures and videos. Extra would be real-time video and real-time project status.
• Integration in opensourceecology.org

Timeline

10 days for completion of the project.

• day 1 - architecture, choice of technologies, environment setup
• day 2-4 - prototype 1
• day 5 - test and fixes
• day 6-8 - prototype 2
• day 9-10 - test and fixes.

Team

• Nikolay Georgiev - project manager and web programmer (intermediate PHP and MySQL skills, but no PHP Framework experience, good CSS and Javascript skills).
• Your Name - description