Mesh/Funding

Grants

• Awesome Foundation - Knowledge Chapter
• Awesome Foundation - Open Web
• Awesome Without Borders
• Awesome Foundation - SF
• The Pollination Project
• Open Tech Fund
• NL Net Foundation
• Internet Society's Community Grants
• The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
• Open Society Foundations Transparency and New Technologies Initiative

Crowdfunding

For our initial batch of crowdfunded hardware, we ran a 60-day campaign on WePay. See this page for details on that campaign, purchases and standing funds.

Sustainable Business Models

Preliminary Notes/Brainstorm

• cost
  • buying routers
  • people adopt routers
  • people buy routers
• couple of full time real employees
  • mounting routers/antennae
  • managing of network
• bandwidth
• electricity
• advertising on splash page
• name the wifi network as the web address
• sell service to business districts
• digital bulletin boards
• skill share board
• begging for cash model
  • OLPC model: people pay 2x for themselves and someone else
• ISPs ToS don’t allow you to share bandwidth
  • get local ISPs to contribute
  • monkeybrains?
  • competing with Unwired, and their radio frequency
• legal advisers???