[IAEP] Funding team?

[Sebastian Silva]

Earlier this year there was discussion about forming a "Financial Team".
I'm not sure exactly if a team is required, but formalizing mechanisms 
for projects like translations and content, research or development, to 
look for funds - sounds like an excellent idea. We (local labs) have 
been thinking and talking for a long time about a "project bank" where 
projects could be tracked in a platform for funding, as well as 
requirements and funding could be gathered in bounties or calls for 
proposals (the other way around).

I'm cc'in Laura who has been thinking about the design of such a system 
for a long time.
What do you think? Maybe funding for developing such a platform is one 
of the first things to consider?

Regards,
Sebastian

El 12/08/11 08:30, mokurai at earthtreasury.org escribió:
> I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant
> opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity
> development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and
> digital content integrating software into lessons and explorations. To get
> things started, I have created a temporary page with some suggestions.
> There are lots more.
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/Funding
>
> We need people to gather and document opportunities; grant writers; and
> proposals for what to fund.
>
> Some people think that this is still a bad time to ask for money, but I
> hear that corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars of cash
> equivalents.