About the Organization

 

Ideologi Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation to be founded by the initiators of Ideologi, will be the custodian of software licenses, trademarks and any other terrestrial legal rights associated with Ideologi. It will have similar goals and objectives of other open source organizations, such as the Linux Foundation (www.linuxfoundation.org) and Apache Foundation (www.apache.org). An operations staff will be employed to manage communications and logistics between programmers, business partners, and members of the Ideologi community.

  

Ideologi Foundation will be sustained through three distinct revenue sources:

1. Income from from tax-deductible grants and donations from institutions and supporters of Ideologi. This source will taper-off as the other two sources ramp up.

2. Fees collected through dialogues initiated by Ideologi Foundation where financial transactions are involved.

3. Management & Consulting Fees associated with providing and/or subcontracting legal and business services for participants of dialogues initiated by Ideologi Foundation who plan to co-develop intellectual property for sale or licensing to the public marketplace.

   

Ideologi makes possible the creation of distributed autonomous organizations: social entities that can integrate an unlimited number of ad hoc participants into a collaborative and cooperative whole without needing a centralized command structure. An explicit role for Ideologi Foundation to play is that of a working laboratory for decentralized organizational design. Its non-profit bylaws, for example, could be written to accommodate an unlimited number of directors, each with a unique set of dynamic responsibilities. Its only limitation would be the collective imagination of its voluntary participants.

   

Once a mature version of Ideologi software is available and the user base reaches a significant size, Ideologi Foundation will push all of its executive decision-making power out to its community of ideologists. If all goes as planned, Ideologi Foundation will be socially, legally and technologically capable of determining its goals and plan of action without any semblance of classic central authority. It will then be a public resource for the benefit of all.