I am interested. I've looked at the financials for OTW (budget c. $500k and the Wikimedia Foundation (c $50M), and I think a Network of Our Own would need a budget of order of magnitude $5M/year (range $2M-$10M). More than 1/2 of this would be for staff: full-time pro coders, to start.
We should expect to have to pay for one year=$5M without seeing any site yet. This sounds like a Kickstarter to me. Probably someone who knows how to run this sort of project could outline the Kickstarter, levels, etc.
NO3 should probably follow the blueprint laid down by the OTW. Legal structure FIRST: what kind of non-profit? OTW & Wikimedia are 501(c)3, but I don't know if that's possible when people (e.g. artists) may using it as a storefront or advertising. There are a bunch of non-profit options that our legal eagles should discuss.
We'd need a Board of Directors early on, for legal purposes.
I don't know if it will be possible for NO3 to be eligible for grant money of various kinds. I would encourage anyone who's starting to think about the coding to apply for this fellowship (and similar): we can assume that most of the people working on NO3 will not be cis men.
the Network of Our Own
We should expect to have to pay for one year=$5M without seeing any site yet. This sounds like a Kickstarter to me. Probably someone who knows how to run this sort of project could outline the Kickstarter, levels, etc.
NO3 should probably follow the blueprint laid down by the OTW. Legal structure FIRST: what kind of non-profit? OTW & Wikimedia are 501(c)3, but I don't know if that's possible when people (e.g. artists) may using it as a storefront or advertising. There are a bunch of non-profit options that our legal eagles should discuss.
We'd need a Board of Directors early on, for legal purposes.
I don't know if it will be possible for NO3 to be eligible for grant money of various kinds. I would encourage anyone who's starting to think about the coding to apply for this fellowship (and similar): we can assume that most of the people working on NO3 will not be cis men.