Social Sourcing
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Social Sourcing is about leveraging the Open Source model, along with best practices for distributed collaboration and facilitation, to achieve self-sustaining projects. Social sourcing enables groups to pool resources to collectively achieve a goal with higher quality and lower costs!
ifPeople has helped projects go from ideas with potentially interested collaborators to self-sustaining, community-driven, collaboratively-funded projects. ifPeople assists with the strategy development and facilitates implementation for open, sharing collaborative projects.
| We help clients ensure the project is inviting to end users,
consultants, and contributors, supports ongoing collaboration of the
community, and governs and protects the project. Strengthening the
community
will lead to additional participants both in terms of development,
usage, and even funding. Social sourcing is a replicable, iterative approach to organizing collaborative projects. |
View a presentation on how the Open Source project eduCommons adopted Social Sourcing Find out more about eduCommons |
| Here's an overview of the process: Outline of Social Sourcing, v1.0
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Watch a presentation by ifPeople's Christopher Johnson on organizing the GetPaid for Plone project with the Social Sourcing approach Find out more about GetPaid for Plone. |
Check out the presentations and videos to the right and below for more information on social sourcing in practice.
