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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Alex, <br>
<br>
Thanks for your grant request. Speaking as a member rather than as
Secretary, I do have some questions about Growstuff and the
funding request; <br>
<br>
- 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? <br>
- Is there a triaged / prioritised list of issues in GitHub that
would be worked on if the $10k figure were reached?<br>
- Are there any other major sponsors of the project? <br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Kathy<br>
<br>
On 23/09/2014 8:03 AM, Alex Bayley wrote:<br>
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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">Date: 23rd September, 2014 <br>
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Project Name: Growstuff <br>
<br>
Aim of project: to provide an open source platform and open data
for food growers worldwide <br>
<br>
Person responsible for request: Alex Bayley (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:skud@growstuff.org">skud@growstuff.org</a>) <br>
<br>
Request: <br>
<br>
I am the founder and lead developer of Growstuff (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://growstuff.org">http://growstuff.org</a>), 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). <br>
<br>
We have been running for 2 years as an open source project, and
launched our website (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://growstuff.org/">http://growstuff.org/</a>)
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. <br>
<br>
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 (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://3000acres.org/">http://3000acres.org/</a>),
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.<br>
<br>
I am applying for a grant as part of our current fundraising
campaign (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://igg.me/at/growstuff">http://igg.me/at/growstuff</a>)
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. <br>
<br>
The funds will go towards work on our open data API, which will
include: <br>
<br>
* Consulting with developers to determine their needs and
preferences wrt our API <br>
* Release of a "version 1" API <br>
* Documentation of the version 1 API on our wiki <br>
* Suite of examples and demos to help people use Growstuff's
open crop data, published on github with documentation <br>
* Weekly blog posts during the project, documenting our work and
helping people use our open data <br>
* Supporting developers working with our API to build their apps
<br>
<br>
Work will commence by late October, and continue for 1-3 months
depending on funds raised. <br>
<br>
Links: <br>
<br>
Growstuff website: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://growstuff.org/">http://growstuff.org/</a>
<br>
Github: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://github.com/Growstuff/growstuff">http://github.com/Growstuff/growstuff</a>
<br>
Wiki: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wiki.growstuff.org/">http://wiki.growstuff.org/</a>
<br>
Community forums: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://talk.growstuff.org">http://talk.growstuff.org</a>
<br>
IRC: #growstuff on irc.freenode.net <br>
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<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Alex "Skud" Bayley <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:skud@growstuff.org">skud@growstuff.org</a> <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://growstuff.org/">http://growstuff.org/</a> </div>
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