[Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia

[Kade Morton]

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Hi all,

I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I co-founded, Aletheia.

Project name: Aletheia
Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to publishing scientific research behind paywalls and to popularise decentralised autonomous organisations.

Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database which we're applying to academic publishing. Basically a a database that is free to upload to and access from, administered by the community as a decentralised autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an alternative to publishing research behind paywalls.

Have a look at our source code here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-app
Have a look at our community documentation here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin

Key stages or milestones of the project:

Completed
- Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers can come onto the project, documents hosted on GitHub.
- Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/
- Get application running on Ubuntu
- Get application running on Mac
- Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to help create avenues for Mozilla's continued support for Aletheia

To be Completed
- Get application running on Windows
- Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017)
- Run presentation about Aletheia and the applications of decentralised and open source technology in science at MozFest (application made, waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will be in London, 27th of October 2017)
- Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018)

How the success of the project will be measured: Number of downloads, number of active community users and number of documents stored in Aletheia
Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services:
- $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video covering Aletheia.
- $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing
- $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, custom domain name, travel expenses we have coming up)
- $5,000 to have website professionally built.

These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just apply to have the video covered. We think a professionally created video that's engaging and made by a talented group of people with a large fan base that's easily sharable on social media and can be given to anyone who asks "what is Aletheia?" would be the greatest boon to our project. We need to get the word out about our project and increase the rate of volunteers coming on to the project, we think the visual medium of a video is the best way to do this. Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working on the project yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an "open source rate" with Extra Credits but they have said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before 30th of September 2017.

The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions:
- Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for Brisbane, Mozilla techspeaker, completed the Mozilla open leadership course for open source projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to Mozilla's Global Sprint 2017, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia
- Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia with Kade, works for ThoughtWorks on a number of open source projects, is extremely active in running privacy, online security and decentralisation meetups locally. If our application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's cofounder I can approach him and ask if he would mind his name being disclosed to the council but as a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity.

Person responsible for project: Kade Morton
A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project: I would be more than happy to provide Linux Australia with regular status updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along.

Regards,

Kade Morton
Twitter: @cypath
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283
Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton
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