Just FYI, Microryza has funded 40 projects so far. It's still a very small figure, and we still have a lot of ground to cover, but the recent decision by Kickstarter just proves that creative or reward based crowdfunding won't be the best solution for science and research.
Obviously we're also big fans of SciFund Challenge, Crowdtilt, Rare Genomics, Consano, and many more as other great options. :D
On Monday, August 5, 2013 7:25:43 AM UTC-7, John Griessen wrote:
On 08/05/2013 08:32 AM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> Also, self-hosting is viable if you handle banking and refunds
> ethically: http://selfstarter.us/
>
> The disadvantage is that you lack the "trust" of a third party if
> you're doing an all-or-nothing project, because there's no escrow to
> guarantee a refund if the project goal is not met. So, not worth trying
> to convince people that's how things will work; just run it indiegogo
> style and say "this is the target but all donations gratefully
> accepted".
>
> Also, projects should not forget the awesomeness that is gittip.com,
> and should totally set up a gittip and let it be known that more
> long-term, sustained funding is also very welcome. At present gittip's
> pay-out is only to the US, but
Thanks for telling us about these Cathal.
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