COfundOS - OSS Werk? Synergies with CrowdSpirit?

Open Source Sofware (OSS) and Open Innovation are becoming closer to each other.

This was the first thought when I saw CofundOS.

COfundOS seems to be the first intermediary working on OSS basis.

Bidding for software this way is new to me. I like the openness of this approach: "All ideas and contributions on Cofundos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. All project outcomes must be licensed under an OSI approved open-source license".

The developer of the COfundOS website and service is the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Research Group ( (AKSW) at the University of Leipzig, Germany. A great start and Good luck / Alles Gute with your efforts!

The COfundOS operation model  (not using word business model here...) is similar to CrowdSpirit.

An idea: Could CrowdSpirit use COfundOS to find OSS developers for the software development of those gadgets? Any open APIs or Web Services in these two services?

Comments

[Lionel]

Thanks a lot Mikko for your article which is very interesting for CrowdSpirit ;-)
Lionel, CrowdSpirit Founder

[Mikko Ahonen]

You are welcome, Lionel :-)

Background information: I, Maria Antikainen and Marko Mäkipää wrote an paper about Collective Creativity. There we inspected intermediaries and innovation marketplaces like CrowdSpirit and FellowForce. The users and founders of these services were interviewed. When/if we get this paper accepted in a journal, I will put it in this blog and tell more about this work.

In the meanwhile, the evolution of CrowdSpirit is truly interesting. Please, go and take a look: http://www.crowdspirit.org .

Take care

Mikko