The Hideki Saito OPF (Open Project Fund) is a initiative of contributing small to medium amount of fund to emerging open products (Open Software/Creative Commons) and other open development. Main purpose of this fund is not necessary provide lump sum of funding required by receiving communities sustain its development, but to encourage funding by their users to give back to community.
Thus, Hideki Saito OPF is not an entity to relay any fund, , however merely a promotion of microfunding to various Open Projects. It is simply P2P approach, thus if this is something you may be interested, you can make your own OPF and publicize your own contributions. There eventually will be a page listing other OPFs on this page, as well.
Funding comes from Hideki Saito's pocket money, thus, it is operated under limited budget, and is given under Hideki Saito's individual name.
Also, funding criteria is heavily based on usefulness as determined by Hideki Saito.
Generally, the following are examined prior to funding.
Signature Funding is generally 50 USD and more, given to special occasions outside of other donations.
Microfunding (OSS) is generally 10 to 49 USD in value, awarded approximately every month to various OSS products. The project must have released at least one release to be eligible for this funding.
Prospective Funding is also awarded to work-in-progress projects. Generally, these are reserved to those with healthy number of backers on funding site such as Kickstarter.
Product Delivery Sponsorship is a funding with expected delivery of products. This includes pre-order to final work, such as Blender Foundation's products.
Currently OPF is nothing more than declaration of Open Project supporter, therefore, there is no registration. I may put up some type of portal site where you can sign up and list yourself as OPF member as long as you are in compliance with OPF objective.
Any open source with OSI approves are considered Open Project. Also for artistic work, Creative Commons and similar permissive licenses are considered to be Open Project. Individual OPF may choose to not consider certain license forms as Open Project at their discretion, but to qualify as OPF complaint contributions, target for funding must be within definition of Open Project.
Not necessary; some companies (like Google) supports their employee's contribution to OSS, and some even support these project for in monetary and tangible ways, such as hosting. Making OPF complaint donations to project supported by such companies are totally fine as long as you are contributing to the project and not to the company supporting it.
Not at all. You can start as low as you want. It is recommended, however, that you make donations more than $5, as any less amount could potentially cut into payment processor's fee, and in some cases, makes receiving party pay more than they receive.
Absolutely, as long as they meets other requirements.
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