[Linux-aus] [LACTTE] Grant Application: Growstuff

[Kathy Reid]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for your grant request. Speaking as a member rather than as 
Secretary, I do have some questions about Growstuff and the funding 
request;

- What will happen if the campaign does not reach $10k? If the grant 
were awarded and $2k were granted, but the $10k figure were not reached, 
would the money be returned to Linux Australia?
- Is there a triaged / prioritised list of issues in GitHub that would 
be worked on if the $10k figure were reached?
- Are there any other major sponsors of the project?

Kind regards,
Kathy

On 23/09/2014 8:03 AM, Alex Bayley wrote:
> Date: 23rd September, 2014
>
> Project Name: Growstuff
>
> Aim of project: to provide an open source platform and open data for 
> food growers worldwide
>
> Person responsible for request: Alex Bayley (skud at growstuff.org)
>
> Request:
>
> I am the founder and lead developer of Growstuff 
> (http://growstuff.org), an open source/open data website for people 
> who grow their own food (veggie gardeners, etc).  We provide the only 
> usable international database of crop information and planting advice 
> that is available under a free license (CC-BY-SA).
>
> We have been running for 2 years as an open source project, and 
> launched our website (http://growstuff.org/) just over a year ago. Our 
> database currently has information about ~400 crops, largely 
> crowdsourced from our 1000+ members worldwide.  As an open source 
> project we have had around 40-50 code contributors, and are well known 
> as a welcoming community, providing mentoring and other support to new 
> developers to learn open source skills.
>
> I am based in Ballarat, Victoria, and Growstuff has over a hundred 
> members in Australia. About a quarter of our developers to date have 
> been Australian, and Growstuff developers participate in local open 
> source and free software activities (eg. hack nights run by the 
> Melbourne Ruby meetup group). Growstuff also provides technical and  
> open source expertise to 3000 Acres (http://3000acres.org/), a 
> Melbourne-based open source non-profit aiming to help locals find 
> vacant land to grow food. We have held one "open food hack day" with 
> 3000 Acres and Open Food Network (yet another open source project 
> based in Melbourne, who I believe received a Linux Australia grant 
> last year), and hope to run more of these in future.
>
> I am applying for a grant as part of our current fundraising campaign 
> (http://igg.me/at/growstuff) to support the work of two developers to 
> improve our open data API.  Overall, we are hoping to raise $20,000 
> but will be able to scale our work to the amount raised (from $10k on 
> up); we are seeking $2,000 from Linux Australia which would make Linux 
> Australia a "major sponsor" of Growstuff, and means we would include 
> your logo in our footer for our year, and promote you as a 
> sponsor/supporter of Growstuff through our newsletter/social media/etc.
>
> The funds will go towards work on our open data API, which will include:
>
> * Consulting with developers to determine their needs and preferences 
> wrt our API
> * Release of a "version 1" API
> * Documentation of the version 1 API on our wiki
> * Suite of examples and demos to help people use Growstuff's open crop 
> data, published on github with documentation
> * Weekly blog posts during the project, documenting our work and 
> helping people use our open data
> * Supporting developers working with our API to build their apps
>
> Work will commence by late October, and continue for 1-3 months 
> depending on funds raised.
>
> Links:
>
> Growstuff website: http://growstuff.org/
> Github: http://github.com/Growstuff/growstuff
> Wiki: http://wiki.growstuff.org/
> Community forums: http://talk.growstuff.org
> IRC: #growstuff on irc.freenode.net
>
> -- 
> Alex "Skud" Bayley
> skud at growstuff.org
> http://growstuff.org/
>
>
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Kathy Reid
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0418 130 636
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