[liberationtech] [gaia] Stanford Liberationtech Needs Your Help

[jeffrey wishnie]

How has Discourse been funded? I don’t know the full history, but the team
behind it has revenue through Discourse Hosting (which I use, and is
excellent):
https://payments.discourse.org/pricing

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Jeff Wishnie

On June 26, 2018 at 5:15:02 PM, Vint Cerf (vint at google.com) wrote:

are they likely to continue support? Do you know what part of Google
helped?

v


On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

> Google, Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar, and a few others I'm forgetting right
> now...
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
>
>> how had it been funded?
>>
>> v
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:13 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> The Program on Liberation Technologies at Stanford University (LT)
>>> <http://cddrl.fsi..stanford.edu/libtech> has been going strong since
>>> circa 2006. Since then, LT has helped thousands design, use, and research
>>> technologies that foster the public good.
>>>
>>> Recently, the decision was made to spin off LT as an independent
>>> entity. I'm one of the people tasked with doing so. Here are LT's major
>>> needs:
>>>
>>>    - Recruit people to develop a new website, logo, and graphics.
>>>    - Identify a legal jurisdiction with strong security and privacy
>>>    laws and regulations and a server provider with a stellar reputation
>>>    at protecting user security and privacy to host the site.
>>>    - Determine whether to maintain LT's mailing lists on Mailman
>>>    <https://mailman.stanford..edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech> or
>>>    to transition them to a content management system (e.g., Discourse.org).
>>>    - Assess the best legal structure for LT (e.g., digital cooperative).
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Thanks for your help and advice.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Yosem
>>>
>>> P.S. I'm sending this email on behalf LT's co-founders and not Stanford
>>> University.
>>>
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>>>
>>
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>>
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