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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Sep-2018 05:06:29 EDT Strypey

   At #Open2018 I heard a pitch from one of the folks involved in #OpenGift. This is a cool idea! They connect orgs who need software with free code developers. Depending on their needs, the orgs can be supplied with existing software as-in, or modifed for their needs, or new free code software created from scratch for them if nothing existing fits their needs. OG tries to pool orgs with similar needs to reduce costs for each, while paying devs a living wage:
   https://opengift.io/pub/

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 15:45:53 EDT Strypey

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      The pitch sounded great. But looking at some of the marketing guff on the website, something just feel right to me:
      https://opengift.io/static/documents/presentation-opengift-en.pdf

      > "Any work on the platform is rewarded in GIFT tokens"

      Why the internal crypto-tokens (#GIFT)?

      > "Smart contracts forward part of this income to the
      product owners (investors or creators of open-source software"

      Why the #SmartContracts?

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 15:49:49 EDT Strypey

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         The pitch to us is that it saves its business clients money, by moving money from proprietary software companies to open source developers. But if businesses are spending less on software, could that mean less paid jobs in software development? Or does it just mean cutting corporate management and marketing hierarchies out of the loop, so more of the money spent on software goes to developers? Any economists out there? #AnalyzeThis :)

   2. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Nov-2018 07:15:15 EST Strypey

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      Everytime I look at all the sites under the #CrowdFunding heading on my blogroll, I keep thinking there is scope for some detailed research on which if any of these have been effectively helpful to#FreeCode devs, #OpenHardware makers, or #FreeCulture artists:
      https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Nov-2018 08:01:38 EST Strypey

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         The other thing I keep thinking is that I need to stop using my blogroll as a general link list, and actually links to the blogs of all the projects I've got listed (if they have one). All the link lists need to become part of my project of porting stuff from the #Disintermedia project on #CoActivate to the #P2PFoundation wiki.