Konstantin Dmitriev
Synfig
Paid: 22 MAY 2013
A video or animation licensed under an open license has limited value for re-use unless you can decompose it so that you're able to re-use the individual parts of it: characters, elements, scenes, movements, etc. Konstantin is working on Synfig, an open alternative to Flash, and is pushing re-use ...
Martin Leadbeater
Clockwork
Paid: 22 MAY 2013
Clockwork is an open-source language for easily controlling devices in an Internet-of-Things paradigm, including sensors, industrial control (the author's company currently uses it to control some wool processing machinery). This has the potential to complement endeavours such as the open source eco ...
Seamus Kraft
Open Gov Foundation
Paid: 22 May 2013
OpenGov is one of key groups we've seen focused on what we think is one of the highest leverage areas around Seamus is one of the co-founders and primary visionaries behind this effort. They're small enough that a small grant like this will make a real difference. ...
Shaka Senghor
MIT Media Lab Director's fellow
Paid: 23 MAY 2013
Shaka recently published his life story "Writing my Wrongs", is a MIT Media Lab Director's fellow, and spoke at TEDx Midwest. When he was released from prison a few years ago at age 38, he had spent exactly half of his life incarcerated. He uses story telling, and writing to help inner city and ...
Rima Al-Sheikh
Begin CMS
Paid: 23 MAY 2013
Extremely skilled, especially with hard-core server optimization. Spent years supervising sites with massive traffic (in Dubai's media city, which houses the regional headquarters of Reuters, CNN, many other news orgs.) Knows what she's doing and always willing to help others. Spends almost all ...
Jim Hazard
Paid: 23 MAY 2013
Developing a way that enables lawyers to learn from engineers how collaborate most efficiently is great :-) If he really manages to come up with a system that avoids stupid copy/pasting of large parts and sending back and forth huge emails, but allows to manage and negotiate legal documents in a sm ...
Liz Barry
Public Lab Co-founders & Lead Organizers
Paid: 06 JUNE 2013
Liz is one of the co-founders and lead organizers of this vibrant community. They represent a great example of crowdcrafting: the crowd actually doing science, rather than being exploited by scientists. Public Labs started out of activist efforts to map the oil slick BP produced off the Louisia ...
John Parks
Paid: 06 JUNE 2013
John about to qualify as doctor in the US wants to use technology to make medical knowledge more freely available, both to public and to under-resourced practitioners in developing world. He plans to work in the developing world. While in medical school he worked for an elective rotation at Barag ...
Jim Groom
DS106 Online Community
Paid: 6 June 2013
Jim is the creator of the DS106 (http://ds106.us/) online community. He's been asking one of the key questions in my mind - what might the technical architecture of learning look like in the future? - and doing outstanding, open source work (based on Wordpress) on the answer. DS106 wa ...
Rob Beezer
Open Books Advocate
Paid: 6 June 2013
He releases his books under an open license (http://linear.ups.edu/), releases the source for the books (LaTeX, XML, and HTML), and he add colleagues release code on github for transforming them in various ways (https://github.com/rbeezer). He incorporates interesting ideas and fo ...
Jenny Molloy
Open Science Working Group
Paid: 6 June 2013
She is immensely active as open science advocate She has realised the most successful volunteer led working group of the OKF She has organised numerous events She has helped in making the OKF science list the leading discussion platform on open science Sh ...
Angela Bullock
Co Founder - Chief Story Teller
Paid: 13 JUNE 2013
Angela started the 100Cameras project 4 years ago, left her job last year to become the first (and still only) full time employee About 20 people volunteer 15 hours a week Anything which empowers women or kids is awesome Links http://www.100cameras.org/the-team/ http://www.100cameras ...
Hugh McGuire
Pressbooks
Paid: 13 JUNE 2013
Hugh and Pressbooks have been on the Foundation radar for a while. Hugh and his team have done great work building and open-sourcing the Pressbooks Wordpress plugin (and providing a superb hosted option). They are still looking for their business model, but are making good progress. As he presented ...
Marco Zennaro
Book: White Spaces in the Developing World
Paid: 13 JUNE 2013
Marco has a long history of supporting wireless networking in Africa TV White Spaces is a great technology but not well understood. There is a need for this publication they're experienced at collaborative book production it's all under a CC license the grant will help get it professional ...
Marco Zennaro
Book: White Spaces in the Developing World
Paid: 13 June 2013
Marco has a long history of supporting wireless networking in Africa TV White Spaces is a great technology but not well understood. There is a need for this publication they're experienced at collaborative book production it's all under a CC license the ...
Abhishek Choudhury
Heroes Project
Paid: 13 June 2013
He has kicked off an idea called the 'Heroes Project' which involves processes of healing and transformation with communities in crisis through collecting and reviving their stories and myths and retelling them in a way that passes on the wisdom of the ancestors to the youth; ...
Michael Aufreiter
Substance.io
Paid: 13 June 2013
Overall reason: most promising toolset for semantic, collaborative, distributed authoring with federated repositories. Project is completely opensource and standards compliant. Emphasis is on simple, effective user experiences. Collaboration and sharing is the para ...
Tobias Schonwetter
Co-ordinator - Open AIR network
Paid: 16 OCT 2013
Tobias is the co-ordinator of the Open AIR network that researches innovation and intellectual property across Africa which is organising the 3rd Congress on IP and the Public Interest; He is one of two co-ordinators for Creative Commons Africa and the Director of the University of Cape Town Intelle ...
Cesar Harada
Protei team lead
Paid: 6 NOV 2013
Protei in a nutshell: Open Hardware for the Environment, to make ocean science more accessible by producing ultra low-cost sensor networks, clean the oceans using renewable energies. When the BP Oil Spill was pouring in the Gulf of Mexico, Cesar left his Project Leader position at MIT to move to ...
Darlene Cavalier
Founder - SciStarter
Paid: 6 NOV 2013
Darlene is founder of SciStarter, an aggregator of all sorts of citizen science projects on the web, aimed at parents, kids and other citizen science novices. Darlene is struggling with a problem: the difficulty that budding citizen scientists have in tracking their contributions across multiple ...
Ivan Grubisic
Lens project
Paid: 6 Nov 2013
Lens is one of the best efforts I've seen to get closer to the ideals espoused by the Beyond the PDF community--namely the reinvention of the vehicle for science to be much more dynamic than what it is. At least three separate journals are using lens as their new preeminent articl ...
Sarah Shourd
Opening The Box
Paid: 6 Nov 2013
Sarah was held for in prison for 410 days as a political hostage by Iran, much of it in solitary confinement. She's now producing an open-licensed play titled "Opening The Box" about solitary confinement in the US. Her approach is to weave together stories of those in solitary col ...
Kate Ray
Scroll Kit
Paid: 6 Nov 2013
Kate is on a mission to make the web a more creative space (= more people "creating" things) She approaches everything with a designer's mind, and a developers toolkit Has a solid track record of prototypes & projects, incl. one start-up (scrollkit) Rub ...
Greg Kempe
Open By-laws
Paid: 6 NOV 2013
Motivation: Greg is turning South Africa's inaccessible PDF by-laws into metadata-rich, searchable HTML (starting with Cape Town). South Africa's open gov movement is in its infancy, and concrete contributions like this make a huge difference, making real what is possible for an organised citizenry ...
Peter Bloom
Rhizomatica
Paid: 6 NOV 2013
Rhizomatica have developed the first real community organised and run low-cost GSM base station in Oaxaca, Mexico. They are currently serving over 70,000 people in an area with no service. Completely community owned and driven. What is pioneering here is the regulatory dispensation that they have ma ...
Grace Garey
Watsi
Paid: 21 Nov 2013
She runs much of the behind the operations at Watsi. Super humble and rarely gets any of the accolades she deserves. She is to Watsi what a mother is to an outstanding adult. I've worked with Grace at various times and specifically with Trovebox donating a portion of proceed ...
Michael Ettershank
Robot Science
Paid: 21 Nov 2013
His ambition is to teach complete novices in South Africa to become masters of making robots and inspire careers in tech etc He's been running free robot-building sessions in Soweto and at University of Johannesburg Completely self-funded to date but now looking to get a mass rob ...
Negar Tayyar
Community Health Advocate
Paid: 21 Nov 2013
Negar is doing incredible work supporting the creation of community health commons with communities in South Asia and Southern and East Africa. Her vision is to work with indigenous and local communities to revitalize effective local health traditions to address the lack of� ...
Carolina Botero
Open Content & Open Access
Paid: 21 Nov 2013
for her awesome work on open content, open access and open education in Latin American countries. She is well connected within the CC Affiliate Network and has been very supportive for my current work on standardized contributor agreements. ...
Prakash Neupane
Open Knowledge Foundation
Paid: 28 NOV 2013
I know Prakash as a very active community member in the Open Knowledge Foundation Network (Prakash participates completely voluntarily acting as the Open Knowledge Foundation Ambassador in Nepal. He is very active in the community there and has organized events in relation Girls in ICT ...
Jeff Sturges
Mt. Elliot makerspace Detroit
Paid: 28 Nov 2013
Founded Mt. Elliot makerspace in Detroit (a failed city, that declared bankruptcy a few months ago) Different from most leaders in the maker movement, Jeff focuses specifically on low-income communities He actually figured out a model for maker spaces to be affordabl ...
Valentina Pellizzer
executive directress @ OneWorldSEE
Paid: 6 NOV 2013
Motivation: Valentina is an Italian lawyer active in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) where she runs the OneWorldSEE program in support of civil society developments. The OneWorldSEE program she's the director of aims to create a platform that facilitates the communication of local civil societi ...
Yann Lischetti
Paid: 6 NOV 2013
Yann Lischetti, developer of a 1400 mile per gallon equivalent titling microcar, a small mobility machine that covers 80% of one's travel needs within the current road infrastructure. It is intended for city travel with 80km range, 4 s 0-50 acceleration, Android integration for dashboard and music, ...
Javier de la Cueva
Paid: PAID 6 NOV 2013
Links: http://www.consumer.es/web/es/tecnologia/internet/2006/02/17/149502.php Motivation: Javier (Madrid, 1962) holds a Licentiate degree in Law and a Master of Advanced Studies in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He works as a practicing lawyer. Amongst others, he has h ...
