Make your way to finance 
 an open source project

OSX OPEN SOURCE EXPERIENCE 2024



multi.coop
Datami Pro/Pods

by

multi.coop


Julien Paris
FLOSS fullstack developer
co-founder of the tech cooperative multi

Illustration : XKCD n°2347   /   Online presentation
Navigation with the arrows / Plan pressing echap
These slides by J. Paris are under licence CC BY-SA 4.0

The Datami Pro & Datami Pods
projects

 
 
 
 
 

Screenshots

Datami Pro / Datami Pods   /     repository

 
 
 

Datami widgets   /     website

 
 
 

Datami’s users & clients

 

Datami Pro/Pods global architecture

 

The cooperative multi

 

The cooperative multi contibutes to develop digital commons and related services. To do so we gathered a community of profesionals aiming to keep digital industry able to respond to the public’s general interest.

  Check our website : multi.coop




Our clients

 



No equity
participation

How to finance the R&D ?

( … while remaining independant )


Finding public grants


Mixing income streams types


Iterating and pivoting
the business model


… but at what costs ?

Finding public grants

In 2021-2022

 

 

In 2024-205

Mixing income streams types

Datami project’s revenues between 2021 and 2025

 

🟠 grants   /   🟡 grants (in kind)   /   🔵 missions

Iterating and pivoting the business model

Trying to find
recurrent revenue streams

 

  Datami Pro repository

Fostering
collaborations

 

  ActivityPods website

Datami project’s business models paths

 

⚪️ legacy since 2022   /   🟠 new 2024-2025   /   🟣 experimental 2026

The risk of exhaustion

 


See the presentation by Tobie Langel given during State Of Open Con 2024.

Imagine new ways to finance open source and digital commons


2% for commons
on public digital projects


A fund managed independently
by commons stakeholders


A structure that can receive public or private financial contributions


A transparent, equal and non-profit redistribution organization

Check our presentation about The Librery proposals

General economy

 

Distribution of collected funds

 

Internationalisation

 

Funding digital commons as a common

 

See the book “Governing the commons” by Elinor Orstom

More details about this proposal

 

Tanks for your attention