• Why do we get ourselves to undertake it and why it could be interesting to you?

• How do we plan to accomplish our goals?

• What is the OpenGift Platform going to become?

Let’s start with the why

We are here to create new open source economy.

A place where people who create most of the value get most of the profits.

A place where smart people can afford to invest meaningful time in work meaningful for the humankind.

A place where everyone has all the chances to free her/himself of slogging corporate routine.

The how

We create a technological foundation enabling open source projects to function in a new model of monetization. We make it possible for open source projects to get everything they need to become commercially successful: early-stage financing, team, marketing, access to clients and a platform to communicate with them.

Thanks to this model OSS will reach enterprise-level quality. As a result, open source projects will take over a considerable part of the software development market.

The what

Here are the key features of the OpenGift Platform to make all of that come true to life:

— Technology map and by-problem search (make great projects visible and easy to find for sponsors and investors, help projects to find a niche);

— Project progress metrics (make projects comparable);

— Donation-on-goal feature (allows backers to set priorities for an OS project development);

— Wikipedia-like functionality (helps to understand the importance of problems that projects solve and the way the they do it);

— Teammates and contributors search (nobody can make great projects alone);

— Smart-contracts (simplify arrangements with teammates and investors);

— Internal exchange (ensures project earnings are never to decrease due to financial intermediaries’ fees).