Shuttleworth Foundation

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Shuttleworth Foundation
Founded2001 [1]
Founder Mark Shuttleworth
Focus Open source, open content, open educational resources
Location
Area served
Global
MethodFellowships
Key people
 Mark Shuttleworth, founder
Helen Turvey, CEO
Website https://shuttleworthfoundation.com/

The Shuttleworth Foundation was established in January 2001 by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth as an experiment with the purpose of providing funding for people engaged in social change. [1] While there have been various iterations of the foundation, its structure and how it invests in social innovation, the current model employs a fellowship model where fellows are given funding commensurate with their experience to match a year's salary, allowing them to spend that year developing a particular idea. The Foundation announced that it is shutting itself down "by the beginning of 2024." [2]

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Notable past and present fellows include Marcin Jakubowski (who develops the Open Source Ecology project), Rufus Pollock (co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation [3] ) and Mark Surman (now Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation. [4] )

Funding model

The Foundation provides funding for people who have an unproven idea in the form of a 'salary', travel and office expenses. For every dollar invested by the Fellow in a project, the Foundation will put in ten or more, allowing the Fellow to own all Intellectual Property and processes once the active fellowship has ceased.

Projects

References

  1. 1 2 "The Shuttleworth Foundation Home". www.shuttleworthfoundation.org.
  2. ↑ "All good things..." Shuttleworth Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  3. ↑ "Rufus Pollock | Extended Profiles | Open Knowledge Foundation". Archived from the original on 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2012-12-13
  4. ↑ "Mark Surman". www.shuttleworthfoundation.org. May 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2018.


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