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A handy guide to financial support for open source
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Add Grin General Fund - community crowdfunding #96

Closed nayafia closed 5 years ago

nayafia commented 5 years ago

This is an interesting example of a project (Grin) that's crowdfunding their development with a recurring "general fund".

To keep Grin open and free from controlling influences, the project will attempt to rely 100% on community donations for its funding needs.

Also recommend checking out how they ran a campaign for Yeastplume, a developer on the project.

They don't have a foundation, instead using multisig wallets + fund developers directly. I've written a few relevant pieces about this [1][2], so cool to find another example in the wild.

[1] Decentralized funding? An analysis of three programs: https://nadiaeghbal.com/grant-programs [2] Governance without foundations: https://nadiaeghbal.com/foundations