Shuttleworth Foundation

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Shuttleworth Foundation" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Shuttleworth Foundation

Founded	2001[1]
Founder	Mark Shuttleworth
Focus	Open source, open content, open educational resources
Location	Durbanville, South Africa
Area served	Global
Method	Fellowships
Key people	Mark Shuttleworth, founder Helen Turvey, CEO
Website	shuttleworthfoundation.org

The Shuttleworth Foundation was established in January 2001 by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth as an experiment with the purpose of providing funding for people engaged in social change.^[1] While there have been various iterations of the foundation, its structure and how it invests in social innovation, the current model employs a fellowship model where fellows are given funding commensurate with their experience to match a year's salary, allowing them to spend that year developing a particular idea.

Notable past and present fellows include Marcin Jakubowski (who develops the Open Source Ecology project), Rufus Pollock (co-founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation^[2]) and Mark Surman (now Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation.^[3])

Funding model[edit]

The Foundation provides funding for people who have an unproven idea in the form of a 'salary', travel and office expenses. For every dollar invested by the Fellow in a project, the Foundation will put in ten or more, allowing the Fellow to own all Intellectual Property and processes once the active fellowship has ceased.

Projects[edit]

• Freedom Toaster
• Kusasa
• SchoolTool, student information system
• Serval Project, for smart phone ad hoc networks
• strong encryption for Twitter
• tuXlabs
• FarmBot

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Shuttleworth Foundation website

This organization-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e