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We have some funds coming our way. Not sure how many dollars, but we have an agreement with worker unions (on our country and possibly abroad), one NGO and some politicians. Damn, even some anarchists are interested.
we don't expect anything from them anyway
They acknowledge that they need first a good source of raw data. So, our first task is to define the data sources.
I posted this thread after our first reunion with the leaders of one of those working unions. More meetings are expected next week.
We are not planning on having open source development, but the plans are to open source it later.
Our rationale is: NGO and social institutions are lame in terms of efficiency, compared with governemnt and private corporations. With custom software and wikis we intend to change that fact.
On a side note: I'm not a Zeitgeist fag, but i'm familiar with their message (i have a friend that is part of them). This "thing" we plan to build is similar in some ways to the "resource based system" they advocate.