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    <p>Dear Kade,</p>
    <p>Many thanks for your Grant Application for Aletheia.</p>
    <p>Council considered this Application at Council Meeting 6th July,
      and has respectfully declined the Grant Application. The Council
      felt that, although the application was very well written, and the
      objectives of Aletheia are very clear, that the problem of
      paywalled research is incredibly complex, and cannot be solved
      with one platform alone, requiring a broader ecosystem approach.
      We're also aware of work being undertaken in the academic and
      research communities within Australia, with movements such as open
      access and open access journals, that is helping to move the
      entire ecosystem forward.</p>
    <p>Best wishes for Aletheia, <br>
    </p>
    <p>With kind regards, <br>
    </p>
    <p>Kathy Reid<br>
    </p>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/06/17 17:27, Kade Morton wrote:<br>
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      <div>Hi Rowland,<br>
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      <div>More than happy to run through to help the application
        process.<br>
      </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>We've not yet approached funding bodies outside of technology
        for a few reasons (but will down the track). One reason being
        it's hard to explain a decentralised and distributed database
        and what it can be used for to most people outside of tech, but
        the main reason is that a lot of bodies like NHMRC generally
        only fund research. <br>
      </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>One researcher we've spoken to was telling us about issues
        between the two main funding bodies in their field, they were
        working on pacemakers. The bio mechanical body rejected them
        because they felt medical devices should be funded by the
        medical body and the medical body rejected them because they
        felt physical devices should be funded by the bio mechanic body.
        The project (open sourcing pacemaker designs to drive down
        costs) has stalled without funding. NHMRC and the like have very
        narrow criteria for funding, for something like Aletheia to even
        be considered for funding you would need to have the application
        up and running to sway assessors and we aren't at that stage
        yet. <br>
      </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>When we are though, we will be approaching university
        libraries (the department at the university that bares the
        paywall cost) to run nodes and we're already reaching out to
        researchers who are vocally anti-paywall to generate a small
        amount of content on the network. With some content and
        university libraries running nodes we can then approach funding
        bodies that otherwise would not have looked at us.<br>
      </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>I agree one of the perpetuating forces of paywalls is that
        researchers need to publish in high impact journals for funding
        and promotions, this is a social problem. Due to their
        exclusivity though not all researchers do publish in high impact
        journals, and then you have some that don't publish in them on
        principle. That's our target demographic to begin with while we
        socialise our reputation system with the community. We've been
        working Peita Lin, an economic behaviourist who used to work on
        human behaviour in financial events like runs on the banks to
        build our reputation system. Most open access journals have the
        impact problem and because of this people don't often submit to
        them, they don't generate profit (off submission fees) and they
        go out of business. We need plurality in open access and a
        transparent reputation system that shows your complete history
        is a more scientific way of going about rankings than simply
        throwing around high impact names, we think it will appeal to
        researchers and catch on. One of the current academics on our
        team has our reputation system as their niche of the project.
        Over time we think we can make inroads into these problems by
        popularising this new standard. <br>
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      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>On the single point of failure I don't want to detract from
        the work people do to make sure websites have low downtime but I
        still think this is a big plus we have. We've designed Aletheia
        under the assumption it will be attacked. You install the client
        which comes bundled with a none on your machine, once the
        network is up and running that will mean the network will have
        nodes in multiple legal jurisdictions and to distrupt the
        network you would need to compromise or take down a critical
        number of nodes. This should be a tall order to accomplish. Plus
        the network is administered by the community rather than a
        central person or body meaning removal of key people won't
        hamper the network. <br>
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      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>Reason we've designed the network this way is it's often not
        gone well for people working in this space. Aaron Swartz was
        brought up on felony charges and Alexandra Elbakyan has an
        active extradition order hanging over her head. Also, it might
        seem like a stretch that a nation state would attempt to attack
        a scientific journal but I'd argue it's not. The current U.S.
        administration has put out statements that they would take down
        climate science databases and there is currently a movement to
        mirror as much climate data as possible in the (unlikely but
        possible) event this does happen. I spoke to Nick Santos who
        started the climate mirror movement and offered Aletheia as an
        open source, decentralised and distributed mirror once we're on
        our feet. I wholeheartedly appreciate websites can easily be
        architected for high availability, but there isn't a lot that
        can be done if you're served a legal takedown order. Our network
        is designed with that eventuality in mind. This is also our
        jumping off point for what we can offer past academic publishing
        once we demonstrate the software works.<br>
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      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>I think the social impact our technical aspects could have
        are being understated as well. Being a DAO and community run it
        could be that Aletheia really takes off with citizen scientists
        and become a premier platform for them. The transparency around
        funding we have by default might spur other open access journals
        to adopt similar methods. I want to stress that we are very eyes
        wide open to the social norms, traditions, rituals and "we've
        always done it this way" mentality in academic publishing and I
        think we have a strong case to, as I said, make inroads into
        those problems. But also I think we have a strong case to at the
        same time run counter to these social norms and practices by
        providing a vastly different and free service to what's out
        there currently, appeal to the element of the academic community
        that's predisposed to us by being anti-paywall, build our
        community that way. It places us in a strong position to further
        the existing conversation around these social problems, why they
        exist and what can be done about them.<br>
      </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>I wasn't aware of the European Comission's pending decision,
        the below is the news I've had my eye on the last few days: <a
href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers"
          moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers</a>
        Unfortunately I'm quite skeptical about it due to the revenue
        very profitable publishers stand to lose, I imagine there will
        be heavy lobbying to reverse this which is why I'm passionate
        about open source contributing to this issue in a positive way.
        The current system of paywalls was given to us by companies and
        governments, I don't think companies and governments are going
        to change that system anytime soon while it remains as lucrative
        as it is.<br>
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      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>Regards,<br>
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      <div><br>
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          <div>Kade Morton<br>
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        <div>-------- Original Message --------<br>
        </div>
        <div>Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux
          Australia for Aletheia<br>
        </div>
        <div>Local Time: June 19, 2017 10:06 PM<br>
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        <div>UTC Time: June 19, 2017 12:06 PM<br>
        </div>
        <div>From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rowland.mosbergen@gmail.com">rowland.mosbergen@gmail.com</a><br>
        </div>
        <div>To: Kade Morton <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kademorton@protonmail.com"><kademorton@protonmail.com></a><br>
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        <div><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au"><linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:council@linux.org.au">council@linux.org.au</a>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:council@linux.org.au"><council@linux.org.au></a><br>
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          <div>I just saw this on Twitter and thought it would be worth
            sharing: <br>
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          <div dir="auto"><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170404/09344237080/european-commission-may-join-gates-foundation-wellcome-trust-becoming-open-access-publisher.shtml"
              moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170404/09344237080/european-commission-may-join-gates-foundation-wellcome-trust-becoming-open-access-publisher.shtml</a><br>
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            <p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px">One of Europe's
              biggest science spenders could soon branch out into
              publishing. The European Commission, which spends more
              than €10 billion annually on research, may follow two
              other big league funders, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill
              & Melinda Gates Foundation, and set up a "publishing
              platform" for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to
              accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in
              Europe.<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">
            <div>El 19 jun. 2017 17:27, "Rowland Mosbergen" <<a
                rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                href="mailto:rowland.mosbergen@gmail.com"
                moz-do-not-send="true">rowland.mosbergen@gmail.com</a>>
              escribió:<br>
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                <div>Thanks for the feedback Kade.<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>The biggest concern that I see for researchers on a
                  year to year basis is the ability to increase the
                  probability for the NHMRC, ARC and other funding
                  bodies to fund their work. This is directly tied into
                  the papers they publish, where they publish and their
                  citation record (among other things). I think it would
                  be interesting to know how you are approaching the
                  funding bodies and their reactions to your ideas. I
                  think without this your technical fix would not be
                  sustainable.<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>While some of the technical discussions you
                  mentioned I think are interesting technically, in my
                  opinion they aren't even close to the priority that is
                  needed on the same level as the communty issues. <br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>For example:<br>
                </div>
                <div>
                  <ul>
                    <li>websites can easily be architected for high
                      availability (we do this ourselves),<br>
                    </li>
                    <li>PlosOne has all it's content protected by <a
                        rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                        href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/licenses-and-copyright"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">CC-BY</a> and <br>
                    </li>
                    <li>PlosOne has an impact factor (<a rel="noreferrer
                        nofollow noopener"
                        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLOS_ONE"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">3.057 in 2015</a>)<br>
                    </li>
                  </ul>
                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                  <div>Not that Aletheia isn't a cool idea. I just want
                    to ensure that we can tease out the pros and cons to
                    allow the Linux Australia community to work out if
                    this fits into their funding model.<br>
                  </div>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>Whatever the outcome I think you are raising this
                  issue at the right time as it's a hot topic in
                  research.<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>Regards,<br>
                </div>
                <div><br>
                </div>
                <div>Rowland.<br>
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                <div><br>
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                <div><br>
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                <div><br>
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                <div class="gmail_quote">
                  <div>On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Kade Morton <span
                      dir="ltr"><<a rel="noreferrer nofollow
                        noopener"
                        href="mailto:kademorton@protonmail.com"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">kademorton@protonmail.com</a>></span>
                    wrote:<br>
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                    <div>Hi Rowland,<br>
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                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>Thanks for the below. We've consulted pretty
                      widely with researchers here in Aus and overseas
                      (two of the people on our team currently publish
                      academic papers in their fields and we're working
                      with a group Jon Tennant is involved with that are
                      publishing a thesis around a better peer review
                      process, our peer review process is going to be
                      build around their findings). If it strengthens
                      the application I can list out the different
                      researchers and groups we've spoken with.<br>
                    </div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>I'd contend we do need a technical fix to
                      paywalls along with a community fix and we're
                      looking to address both. F1000Research, PLOS ONE
                      and others are great, even Sci-Hub if you feel
                      adventurous, but I think we have some positives
                      over existing solutions.<br>
                    </div>
                    <ul>
                      <li>Websites are a single point of failure, they
                        can fall over through neglect or malicious
                        actors. Aletheia is a decentralised and
                        distributed database, no single point of
                        failure.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>Open access journals and preprint archives can
                        be bought out by larger paywall journals.
                        Aletheia is under a GNU Lesser General Public
                        License v3.0, Elsevier is not buying us.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>Open access journals charge for submissions,
                        it's free to submit to Aletheia. We're looking
                        at how the platform can be monetised but it
                        won't be through submission of or access to
                        content.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>You can't see what open access journals spend
                        their money on, we publish our financial
                        records.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>Open Access journals often die because they
                        don't make profit, we're community run so as
                        long as we have enough community nodes the
                        contents of Aletheia is stored forever.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>Open Access journals don't have publishing
                        impact factor. We won't either, but we're
                        building a reputation system based on submitted
                        articles, peer review articles (our platform
                        handles peer review), community participation
                        and some other factors. This transparent
                        reputation score is your contribution academia
                        so we're looking to turn that into publishing
                        impact factor once we are well established.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>The community doesn't have a say in how open
                        access journals are run usually, they are a bit
                        of a block box. The community runs Aletheia as a
                        decentralised autonomous organisation.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>Open access aren't not open source, you can
                        audit all our code, look at how we are storing
                        papers and data sets, etc.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>There has been little innovation in academic
                        publishing since journals were established in
                        the 16th centry. The only real change is the
                        journals now have websites and databases. I
                        think looking at doing something different in
                        this space is worth the effort just for the
                        exploration alone, and I'd rather open source
                        communities do that exploring over corporations
                        because if a better way is hit on it should be
                        open from the start.<br>
                      </li>
                      <li>A decentralised and distributed database
                        administered as a DAO has applications past
                        scientific publishing, we want to prove it works
                        in this space and then move into other areas. <br>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
                    <div>I'm not sure if this covers all your concerns,
                      we have a white paper covering Aletheia's features
                      if you're interested, <a rel="noreferrer nofollow
                        noopener"
href="https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-whitepaper/blob/master/WHITE-PAPER.md"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/aletheia-fo<wbr>undation/aletheia-whitepaper/<wbr>blob/master/WHITE-PAPER.md</a>
                      <br>
                    </div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div>Regards,<br>
                    </div>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <div
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                      <div
class="m_3110312837833434948m_-3319256380107568031protonmail_signature_block-user">
                        <div>Kade Morton<br>
                        </div>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="m_3110312837833434948HOEnZb">
                      <div class="m_3110312837833434948h5">
                        <blockquote
                          class="m_3110312837833434948m_-3319256380107568031protonmail_quote"
                          type="cite">
                          <div>-------- Original Message --------<br>
                          </div>
                          <div>Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant
                            application to Linux Australia for Aletheia<br>
                          </div>
                          <div>Local Time: June 19, 2017 3:36 PM<br>
                          </div>
                          <div>UTC Time: June 19, 2017 5:36 AM<br>
                          </div>
                          <div>From: <a rel="noreferrer nofollow
                              noopener"
                              href="mailto:rowland.mosbergen@gmail.com"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">rowland.mosbergen@gmail.com</a><br>
                          </div>
                          <div>To: Kade Morton <<a rel="noreferrer
                              nofollow noopener"
                              href="mailto:kademorton@protonmail.com"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">kademorton@protonmail.com</a>><br>
                          </div>
                          <div><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                              href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>
                            <<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                              href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>><wbr>,
                            <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                              href="mailto:council@linux.org.au"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">council@linux.org.au</a>
                            <<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                              href="mailto:council@linux.org.au"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">council@linux.org.au</a>><br>
                          </div>
                          <div><br>
                          </div>
                          <div dir="ltr">
                            <div>Hi Kade,<br>
                            </div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div>As a person who works with researchers
                              everyday at the University of Melbourne,
                              the idea of paywalls is a very hot topic
                              at the moment.<br>
                            </div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div>Open access publications such as
                              F1000Research and PLOS ONE have provided
                              researchers with more choices than ever
                              before.<br>
                            </div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div>Yet the big publications can still
                              provide paywalls due to the way that
                              research funding is granted, based on
                              publication impact factor. Being able to
                              publish in Nature gives one an advantage
                              the next time the NHMRC and ARC grants
                              come around.<br>
                            </div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div>In my opinion, the issue around
                              paywalls in research is very much one that
                              needs a community fix, not a technical
                              fix. And that fix is going to be a long
                              and complicated journey.<br>
                            </div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div>I am unsure how much of this backstory
                              you know or which researchers you have
                              talked to from a range of disciplines like
                              Life Sciences, Humanities, Astronomy etc.
                              I would highly recommend engaging with
                              these researchers if you don't have those
                              relationships already.<br>
                            </div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                              <div>In my opinion, this kind of project
                                would be discussed at a University and
                                Funding level (eg NHMRC) both nationally
                                and internationally. I think the
                                technical considerations would be of a
                                very low priority<br>
                              </div>
                              <div><br>
                              </div>
                              <div>Regards,<br>
                              </div>
                              <div><br>
                              </div>
                              <div>Rowland Mosbergen<br>
                              </div>
                            </div>
                            <div><br>
                            </div>
                            <div class="gmail_extra">
                              <div><br>
                              </div>
                              <div class="gmail_quote">
                                <div>On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 PM,
                                  Kade Morton via linux-aus <span
                                    dir="ltr"><<a
                                      href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au"
                                      rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>></span>
                                  wrote:<br>
                                </div>
                                <blockquote style="margin:0 0 0
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                                  solid;padding-left:1ex"
                                  class="gmail_quote">
                                  <div>I've been asked to resend<br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>***<br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div><br>
                                  </div>
                                  <blockquote type="cite"
class="m_3110312837833434948m_-3319256380107568031m_-5320593009250776848protonmail_quote">
                                    <div>Hi all,<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>I wanted to make a grant for
                                      the open source project I
                                      co-founded, Aletheia.<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Project name: Aletheia<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Aim of the project: To provide
                                      an alternative to publishing
                                      scientific research behind
                                      paywalls and to popularise
                                      decentralised autonomous
                                      organisations.<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>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.<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Have a look at our source code
                                      here: <a
                                        href="https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-app"
                                        rel="noreferrer nofollow
                                        noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/aletheia-fo<wbr>undation/aletheia-app</a><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Have a look at our community
                                      documentation here: <a
                                        href="https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin"
                                        rel="noreferrer nofollow
                                        noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/aletheia-fo<wbr>undation/aletheia-admin</a><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Key stages or milestones of the
                                      project:  <br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Completed<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <ul>
                                      <li>Onboarding documents up to
                                        standard that newcomers can come
                                        onto the project, documents
                                        hosted on GitHub.<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>Participated in the Mozilla
                                        Global Sprint <a
                                          rel="noreferrer nofollow
                                          noopener"
                                          href="https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://mozilla.github.io/glob<wbr>al-sprint/</a><br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>Get application running on
                                        Ubuntu<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>Get application running on Mac<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>Cofounder to complete courses
                                        through Mozilla to help create
                                        avenues for Mozilla's continued
                                        support for Aletheia<br>
                                      </li>
                                    </ul>
                                    <div>To be Completed<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <ul>
                                      <li>Get application running on
                                        Windows<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of
                                        October 2017)<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>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) <br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming
                                        for 1st of July 2018)<br>
                                      </li>
                                    </ul>
                                    <div>How the success of the project
                                      will be measured: Number of
                                      downloads, number of active
                                      community users and number of
                                      documents stored in Aletheia<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>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:<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <ul>
                                      <li>$15,000 for Extra Credits to
                                        create a video covering
                                        Aletheia.<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>$10,000 legal fees, up front
                                        consultation and ongoing<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>$2,000 incidentals incurred so
                                        far (server costs, custom domain
                                        name, travel expenses we have
                                        coming up)<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>$5,000 to have website
                                        professionally built.<br>
                                      </li>
                                    </ul>
                                    <div>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.<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>The project team, their
                                      credentials and professional
                                      capabilities, especially their
                                      history of open source, open data,
                                      open hardware or open culture
                                      contributions:<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <ul>
                                      <li>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<br>
                                      </li>
                                      <li>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.  <br>
                                      </li>
                                    </ul>
                                    <div>Person responsible for project:
                                      Kade Morton<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>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.<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Regards,<br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div
class="m_3110312837833434948m_-3319256380107568031m_-5320593009250776848protonmail_signature_block">
                                      <div
class="m_3110312837833434948m_-3319256380107568031m_-5320593009250776848protonmail_signature_block-user">
                                        <div>Kade Morton<br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Twitter: @cypath <br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>LinkedIn: <a
                                            rel="noreferrer nofollow
                                            noopener"
                                            href="http://linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34<wbr>179283</a><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>Keybase: <a
                                            rel="noreferrer nofollow
                                            noopener"
                                            href="https://keybase.io/kademorton"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">https://keybase.io/kademorton</a><br>
                                        </div>
                                      </div>
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                                  </div>
                                  <div>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
                                  </div>
                                  <div>linux-aus mailing list<br>
                                  </div>
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                                      href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au"
                                      rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"
                                      moz-do-not-send="true">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a><br>
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Kathy Reid
President
Linux Australia

0418 130 636

<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:president@linux.org.au">president@linux.org.au</a>
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