Funding

Looking to fund development of interesting projects? Here's a brief overview of what we can accomplish with various amounts of support.

Looking for ways to contribute that are not monetary?

2020 Funding Asks

$10K
$5k - summer intern to work on skillsera.org (turning educational
explanation videos on youtube into an axiomatic knowledge graph)

$5k - summer intern (front-end) to work on booktrails.us (building
a curriculum dependency graph of textbooks)




2018 Funding Asks
The following list is from 2018 (which is over). Followups have been annotated in green, orange and red:

$10K
Either:
a) 1-2 month stipend for a FE developer to work on Skillsera
b) A pilot of an Open Library Bookdrive (allow the community to fund digitization of the books they want)
   
   Arranged an Internet Archive Summer of Code internship with @tabishjshaikh
   and successfully launched the Open Library book sponsorship program in 2019

  
$100K
45k - 6 month stipend to work on Skillsera
35k - digitize 500 books (proof of concept SF scanning center) 
   
     The Open Library sponsorship program has resulted in the community
     sustainably funding 328 of these 500 books
   

20k - support charles or drini on contract
  
  Both Drini and Charles have since joined the Internet Archive,
  through their own hard work.
  

$1M
$700k - digitize ~10k books forever
  
    A generous donor contributed ~$50k to digitize ~2k books in 2019.
    Chris Freeland and others at the Internet Archive are doing a
    tremendous job on bits/books-in and I feel good dropping this
    metric from my priorities
  
~100k - plead to hire Charles or Drini to work fulltime on Open Library 
  
  Both Drini and Charles have since joined the Internet Archive,
  through their own hard work.
  
~50k - a 6 month stipend to work on Skillsera 
~20k - stipend or contest for a researcher to create a classifier to detect scanned book page types (2 months)
  
    Nolan Windham is currently volunteering to lead http://bookgenomeproject.org/
  

30k - budget for the Open Journal Foundation
  
    Bryan Newbold is currently leading Internet Archive Scholar which supplants
    many of my goals for OJF
  
25k - 3 month contract to connect graph.global, todo.rip or work on fromscrat.ch 

  
    I feel less urgency to work on connecting these projects since
    Conor white-Sullivan is making solid, dedicated progress on Roam
    Research (and other competitors (obsidian, et al) are popping up
    in the ecosystem.
  

75k - padding for travel costs, conferences, contractors, incubating Archive Labs projects
  
    This was too vague and honestly shouldn't have been funded.
    If I were an investor, I'd want to know who in Archive Labs
    was getting supported and know the predicted ROI.