The Crowd 307: Sustaining Open

Hi Crowd! Almost 7 years ago I co-wrote a book about philanthropy and the importance of open. Open principles, open source, and generally building, failing, and learning in the open. 7 years feels both too long and too short when I think about it, so much has changed since then and so much is exactly the same. The book, 50 Shades of Green: Reimagining Philanthropy, was part of the work we did with the Shuttleworth Foundation, which has since shut down but 2/3 of the directors have continued on as Arising Matters and are hosting a pdf of it on their new site. I also put the text (maybe missing some of the images) up on github for quick access to specific parts. Arising Matters also hosts a “10 lessons learned from…” essay which is a very worthwhile read. The high level points are a lot of philanthropy is ineffective, it’s done for the wrong reasons, with the wrong goals, monitoring the wrong metrics. And the result of that is a lot of money that should be spent on fixing/building is…