Open Source University is a unique global platform built on the Ethereum blockchain to bridge the gaps in an educational market, worth trillions of dollars. OS.University is the future of learning and career development.Our aim is to address significant problems for businesses, learners and educational system as it is now by introducing our distributed application platform which solve problems like scalability, shortage of candidates with education and experience corresponding to business needs, rarely measure employee engagement, poor candidate experience, existence of recruitment organizations and job finding platforms playing as middlemen between candidates and businesses etc.Blockchain technology gives us the opportunity to store candidates certification results which will make them trustworthy and easy for automatic distribution to all businesses and organizations.Within the Open Source University ecosystem, our token (EDU) will be used to facilitate the connections in the educational system between Business, Learners and Academia (MOOCs and other learning opportunities).Everyone who uses EDU Tokens will benefit from 0% platform fees, while transactions with other crypto currencies will be charged with commissions for using the platform. Part of that commission is converted to EDU tokens and burned immediately. As a result the value of the EDU token grows. The more transactions go through the system - the higher the token price. EDU tokens are limited to 48,000,000 and are sold through a crowdsale campaign. The funds that are raised will accelerate platforms development.Business will benefit from shaping candidates/employees expertise and from directly approaching their learning and development needs in a distributed manner. All men in the middle will be excluded from the picture, thus reducing business expenses, reducing lead-time, and increasing expertise accuracy.Academia will benefit from scaling their audience (hence the economy of scale), gaining competitive advantage through modernization and automation of operations, combined with customization of the educational experience.Learners will benefit from receiving higher quality education (adequate to the needs of economy) and from directly approaching employers when it comes to matching the expectations with the individual learning and development profiles - all done directly through the Ethereum blockchain (without a middle-man).Certifications will automatically be written into the blockchain, cutting the bureaucracy and allowing all stakeholders to focus on the important aspects of life and business.Any personal information of the parties involved will be stored in an encrypted & secure way.

This crowdfunding event starts on November 20th, 14:00 UTC and will end on December 31st 12:00 UTC, unless a hard cap of 44, 000 ETH is reached before that.Once the pre-sale event has ended, tokens would be immediately transferrable. The tokens are build on the ERC20 standard.EDU tokens will be sold on two rounds - pre-sale and token sale. The six weeks pre-sale starts with the price of. It ends when an amount of 2.6 million tokens is reached. The second part of the pre-sale will consist of 2.2 million tokens at the price ofIn H1 2018 with the stable alpha version release of OSUni platform, the Second Token sale round starts.

Open Source University looks very interesting and I can see its relevance in this modern time. As a student myself I can see the value in being able to connect to the worlds best academic education as well as to professional development opportunities. When businesses are able to have access to a database of candidates with the right education or learning, skills, and experience that will certainly help with the costs that recruitment and training entails. That makes it easier and efficient for businesses to hire people who are right for the job. I hope the best for this project dev and to your team!

Thanks for the positive feedback @purplesugar! @AleksBozhinov, thank you for your assistance with the announcement. Hello everyone, we are very happy to announce our initiative on the Bitcointalk forum! We are here to answer any questions you might have. OS.University Team

Hey!Looking forward to meeting many new friends and forward-thinking blockchain enthusiasts here.My name is Hristian, and I am project lead at the Open Source University decentralized learning & development project at www.os.university An important thing to say is that our team of academicians, corporate and technology experts is ever-growing, so we are looking for new ambassadors from around the world. Our Trello project board in open to all at https://trello.com/b/S9IVVD3V , so you are more than welcome to check it out.if you consider that a mission to empower 7 billion learners to be able to connect to world's top academic education and professional development opportunities on the Ethereum blockchain, is worth supporting - then you are welcome aboard of the world's academic & career development ledger.Hristian

Your hard cap is around $130 million. How can you justify this huge cost? If we calculate with the 50% as you claimed in your post, $65 million is still more than Facebook needed to raise when they had more than 12 million user and the company already been valued for over $1 billion (2006) ... So why do you need this amount of money?

Your hard cap is around $130 million. How can you justify this huge cost? If we calculate with the 50% as you claimed in your post, $65 million is still more than Facebook needed to raise when they had more than 12 million user and the company already been valued for over $1 billion (2006) ... So why do you need this amount of money?

Yes, we do have KYC procedure, which is handled by Parity PICOPS. Only whitelisted addresses will be able to participate in the coin offering. We want to be fully compliant to KYC & AML regulations.The procedure is pretty straightforward and is described in this blog post: https://medium.com/@opensourceuni/edu-token-whitelist-is-open-for-registration-d2b052ebe38d It takes less than 10 minutes to complete it.