Busy.org is a non-profit organization that subsists on sponsorship and donations.
(Check our announcement)
Everything has been achieved through the hard work, dedication and commitment of our two founders, who decided to work for free until the Beta release. But nothing would have been possible without our Donors.
Donations allowed us to recruit and build a strong team, having the ability to plan ahead with a medium-term vision in order to constantly adapt and rationalize our production, with consistent deadlines. That’s how we plan to release our public Beta, and Minimum Viable Product in February 2017.
The received funds are redirected into a development fund that helps Busy to achieve its roadmap, bootstrap new features/services and cover expenses.
It’s allowing us to apply our policy to pay any valuable contribution, and we have rewarded every member that did work for the Busy Project (except the founders, so more funds could directly be allocated to the develop the MVP).
Short list of Busy selected contributors who received a reward for their inputs:
Busy primary expenses:
- Developers/Contributors (Core team + extras)
- Designer
- Heroku
- AmazonWS
- Hetzner
- G Suite
- Slack
- GitHub
We support the blockchain incentive proposal to reward third-party apps
Busy supports this proposed upgrade for the blockchain which we believe would definitely help third-party apps like us to adopt a specified model to cover our expenses. It will also probably allow users to support our projects using a small % of their post rewards as a donation.
In the meantime, Busy development relies on direct donations and our team will forever be extremely grateful to our donors.
To enhance and highlight our supporters, we have defined the Busy Donations Terms, introducing: 5 Donation Levels.
| N° | Level | Donation range |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bronze | 20-500 SBD |
| 2 | Silver | 500-5K SBD |
| 3 | Gold | 5K-25K SBD |
| 4 | Platinum | 25K-50K SBD |
| 5 | Diamond | >50K SBD |
Busy Donor Badge & more to come
Based on your Donor rank/level, you will receive several “rewards” including a Busy Donor Badge on your Busy profile.
Other ideas that we can implement to gratefully acknowledge our donors will be announced in the coming weeks. We are open to any inputs. All suggestions are welcome !
Donation to Busy Development from September to today December 13
We use Steem Dollars as a basis, for a more convenient and stable chart but do also accept Steem and other currencies.
| Level | Donation Range | Donor(s) (SBD) |
|---|---|---|
| Bronze | 20-500 SBD | @theprophet0 (20), @furion (85), @liondani (248) |
| Silver | 500-5K SBD | @bhuz (800), @cass (1.5K) |
| Gold | 5K-25K SBD | @smooth (13K), Steemit Inc (16K) |
| Platinum | 25K-50K SBD | / |
| Diamond | >50K SBD | / |
For more information about Donations/Sponsorship Terms, feel free to contact us.
The Busy Team.
Links
- https://busy.org
- Busy December News
- SteemConnect announcement
- Tutorial : How to add a vote button on your site using SteemConnect
what I had in mind ... :-)
will save up to support you somehow in near future! thanks to everyone who makes busy possible.
Cool, it is really great to see another high-quality portal to the Steem blockchain!
I just donated 20 SBD. Awesome move guys! @smooth @cass @bhuz @liondani @furion @prophet0
Awesome project! Keep it going!
oh man, will save up to get one of them badges! Really excited about the future of Busy.
Just donate $25 SBD. Currently fundraising as well ... :) but I did it anyway...
https://steemit.com/steemit/@deanliu/a-little-santa-power-bestowed-on-me-by-dear-wang-and-paying-forward
busy ... most expected application on steem since steemit ...
awesome friend <3
how about using advertising? I mean, take Google Adsense money, buy Steem to pay the expenses. That way you can be sustainable and independent.
You're right, there are several solutions including Advertising.
I believe in a solution from the blockchain enhancements with incentive for platforms like Busy, to reduce our reliance on Donations and become autonomous.. We try to avoid Advertisement as much as possible but If it's not possible to be sustainable with donation + blockchain incentive, we have other solutions including Ads.. But as a non-profit org on Steem blockchain, being independent will still be relative.. We will always depend on the same chain as Steemit and will also depend on further enhancements.
In my opinion, unless steem face some serious growth issues (and It would mean that the Busy project has no place in the Steem ecosystem), we should be fine relying on Steemit inc support and other members/stackholder who believe in Busy to bring growth and create a new vitality with this alternative platform. It's our medium-term goal with Busy. Ads are more in our emergency plan for now, or possible when we will have huge traffic ; not to develop a Minimum Viable Product and a Beta release ;)
(Note: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.)
Note well that simply because content is in the blockchain does not mean that the author has given you any rights to profit from it. Everything I post into the blockchain, for example, I retain copyright on and reserve all rights to. Without a specific license from the owner of the content, profiting from ads displayed on/beside the content may well expose you to significant liability. Publishing data into the blockchain doesn't give everyone who downloads that blockchain the right to profit from that data.
I totally agree with your statement and vision. This is one of the reason for which we really want to avoid ads.
That's also why I didnt mention Google Ad for example but simply Advertising as a more global concept to-be-defined. Adding Advertising would require more profound reflection on the exact model considering the point you described pretty well.
Simply sharing a few thoughts with you, However it's not on Busy roadmap and may never be
Great Initiative!!. It will help in promoting BUSY
You guys are doing really important work. Thank you!!!!
This is great, I have created a crowdfund campaign to donate to busy.org, lets see which badge we can get: https://steemit.com/busy/@steemfund/steemfund-wants-a-busy-donor-badge
I recall being told that busy.org was supported and being paid (in part) by Steemit Inc. This is not true? Well I thought you were being funded by Steemit, that sucks...
Yep, well it's all written in the post mate ;) Steemit Inc supports Busy with some donations.. (as you mentioned, "in part"), I was there when the question was asked to Ned in SteemSpeak. I can find fyrstikken record maybe but i think you might be wrong on what you recall ;) It doesnt suck that much. In fact we're very grateful for their donation
Well I expect a more 'long term' support but for now it's only covering our 3 month development until the MVP, after that we need to discuss it again. #prayforbusy
our main support are smooth and steemit Inc as you can see, but we have some plan for the future
Yeah I didn't read the post properly when I got to the table, sorry. The "it sucks" applied to them not funding the project when I missed their name hehe, not that they do ;) Glad I wasn't wrong on what I recalled.
Oh woops, me blind, thanks.
UV & RS
Keep on Steeming :)
Looking forward to trying this out!
Curious and interested, what's the reward for bronze?
Signed up the other day, posted on it on one of the updates/pages here.
Keep up the good work.
Noob question. What does busy.org do?
Thanks man for informing a novice like me :)
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A little Santa Power bestowed on me by dear @wang and paying forward 施展王的聖誕小魔法 by @deanliu
@theprophet0 Quick Witness Update and Proof of Donations: Donated to The Garden of Eden to Feed The Homeless on December 17th! - [100% OF THE LIQUID REWARDS FROM THIS BLOG WILL BE DONATED TO THE BUSY PLATFORM] by @theprophet0
SteemFund wants a Busy Donor Badge! by @steemfund
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Just signed up for busy, I am also interested in donating to the cause.