This project from another hackathon many years ago aims to address the question of how to fundraise ("earn") money through work meaningful to community (e.g. "open data"). To renew the conversation, we looked for some similar initiatives in the community:
- The selection criteria for the Prototype Fund
- Our DINAcon host at Open Collective
- Swiss crowdfunding portals LokalHelden and We Make It
- EU-based Sovereign Tech Fund
- Now archived opendata.ch forum
- awesome-oss-funding (now also out of date)
- startup-checklist (US centric)
- FundraisingTool (a nice, still embryonic, idea ....)
- Suparaise (cool website ... but hard to tell what's really going on here)
- Basic Attention Token (web3 micropayments for the "attention economy", via Brave browser)
- Internet Computer (a web3 foundation doing interesting things, like caffeine.ai)
- Polkadot ecosystem (another web3 project with relatively good reputation in our community)
Earn Open Data
This repository describes strategies and links to resources on earning an income with open data.
Seeded at the DB Open-Data-Hackathon Summercamp in July 2019, our original idea was to create a resource to strengthen the basis for professional engagement within the open data community.
Participants of DINAcon 2025 were interested in this project, so we revived it with a new branch, a few additional links, and a static website made with opencode (Sherlock Think Alpha).
See also experimental jobs board at: jobboard
Guide
A short overview exists here on the different modes of work, and how value is created in the open data community, with tips on:
- What skills and qualities are involved in open data
- Appraising volunteer work (hello, hackathons!)
- Freelancing: open data as a solo contributor
- Open data models for startups
- Improving the marketplace
Read more in: How to earn pocket money gracefully with open data?
Can I support you?
You can support this initiative on Patreon, OpenCollective or by making a donation to Opendata.ch.
Contributions of advice, pull requests and :star: GitHub stars are cool too :)
Speaking of GitHub, check out their new Guide to setting up the Sponsor button
Data
This is a Data Package tracking some active centres of value exchange (data hubs, or marketplaces), where services of creating, improving, or building on top of open data are valued and usually well compensated. It is inspired and partly based on @engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer.
To view the data, click the link above. To contribute, edit the files in the data folder.
For more information on how Data Packages work, visit frictionlessdata.io and datahub.io.
Team
- Oleg (@sodacamper)
- Michael (@mibi61)
License
This repository is made available by its maintainers under the Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0, a copy of the full text of which is in LICENSE.md. Forks, contributions and feedback are welcomed.
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