Method of Equal Shares based funding of FLOSS projects
- Support all the projects that mean something to you with a fixed budget.
- You fill in a ballot listing up the various projects you want to support, and assign to each a utility weight.
- Then every five days the ballots and contributions are tallied up according to the Method of Equal Shares, which prioritises items with higher utility relative to funding target.
- In the current version, the eligible beneficiaries include well-known Free/Libre Open Source Software projects, and funding targets are revised each round, providing ongoing support.
This is an early alpha version of a crowdfuning system based on the Method of Equal Shares funding allocation method.
In the future we hope to be able to support a wider range of beneficiaries and other types of funding targets. Currently the system is in test mode, and does not operate with real currency
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