[kNews] Kendra Foundation: Forming and Funding Company...

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Dear All,

Time to get this show on the road...

- What's going on now: Kendra Foundation
- Advice (legal, funding and any) needed: forming non-profit company
- Kendra project structure


What's going on now: Kendra Foundation
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I'm going to set up a company, a foundation/structure on which to build 
Kendra Initiative: Kendra Foundation. It'll be non-profit. I'll hire a 
small team (preferably <5) to keep things moving on and provide 
infrastructure to facilitate interested parties to come together as Kendra 
Initiative to build the Kendra system.
 

This has been discussed on kFW for the last few weeks but please continue 
to add comments/suggestions (good? bad?). For archives see:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/lists/archive/k-framework/msg00059.html


Advice (legal, funding and any) needed: forming non-profit company
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I need legal advice and also need to have a firm of lawyers to register the 
company with. If you have any experience in non-profit companies and/or you 
know about gaining funding for projects like this please either reply to 
this email or, better still, join in the discussion on kFW list. I have a 
hit list of people/orgs to talk to but more are always welcome.
 


Kendra project structure
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For an understanding of where Kendra Foundation fits in here's a brief 
description of the Kendra project:
 

Kendra Aim - to see facilities for consumers to be able to get access to 
all digital content, when they want it and be able to pay for it easily and 
conveniently. To see facilities for content owners to be able to make their 
digital content available to consumers and be able to charge for it (if 
they require) easily and conveniently.
 

Kendra System - a system that satisfies the Kendra Aim.

Kendra Initiative - a group of people (that's us!) using their Initiative 
to bring Kendra to reality by going through a collaborative design process 
and participating in Kendra trials.
 

Kendra Foundation - to provide organisational, legal, and financial support 
for Kendra Initiative. Kendra Foundation would ensure that Kendra 
Initiative trials continue to exist beyond the participation of interested 
organisations and individual volunteers, to enable contributions of 
intellectual property and funds on a sound basis, and to provide a vehicle 
for limiting legal exposure while participating in the trials and 
contributing to software projects. Kendra Foundation would provide hosting 
for the Kendra Initiative website and develop web/email tools to facilitate 
the collaborative design process, between Kendra Initiative participants, 
necessary to create the Kendra system. Coordinating marketing efforts, 
meetings and conferences. I'm sure there's more...
 


What? Even more fun?... Yes! ;-)

Cheers Daniel

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