Join us to talk about finance for open source tech! 

The WILDLABS Open Source Solutions group and the Funding and Finance group are hosting an online community meeting on May 15th 2025 at 17:00-18:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 PDT / 13:00-14:00 EDT / 18:00-19:00 BST / 19:00-20:00 CEST), discussing the challenges and opportunities for financing open source conservation technologies. 

Please register via this Zoom link: 

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Meeting Registration - Zoom

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: WILDLABS Open Source Solutions + Funding and Finance Community Meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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In the meantime, please mark your calendars! 

We are lucky to have two feature presentations from: 

• Peter van Lunteren (@pvlun)  of Addax AI
• Susan Allen of Fieldkit

After the presentations, we will hold a short panel discussion with the two presenters and Alasdair Davies (@Alasdair) of Arribada as an additional discussant. There will also be a chance for audience questions. 

Following our first community meeting on December 4th 2024, it was clear that how to sustain (and finance) open source conservation technologies is a topic of interest. We hope you're interested, too, in joining us for this one hour discussion!

Watch the Recording

Read "WILDLABS Funding and Finance Open Source Solutions Community Meeting May 2025 - Google Drive" on Google Docs

WILDLABS Funding and Finance Open Source Solutions Community Meeting May 2025 - Google Drive

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About the Open Source Solutions group

The Open Source Solutions group is for anyone interested in open source technologies for ecology and conservation. We welcome contributions from both makers and users, whether active or prospective. Here, we believe in the need for open source hardware and software to do good science and research. It is a place to share novel or existing technologies, exchange resources, discuss new projects, ask for advice, find collaborators, and advocate for adopting open-source technologies.

P.S. For reference, here are the de facto dictionary definitions for open source software and hardware, which form two key pillars of open source technologies: 

https://opensource.org/docs/osd

https://www.oshwa.org/definition/

About the Funding and Finance group

The number one problem in nature conservation is the need for more money or access to funding. This group aims to help all WILDLABS community members with funding and financing their projects. The group is called Funding and Finance to draw attention to the possibilities of funding (i.e., grants, awards, and other gifts)  and finance (loans and venture capital investment in nature conservation projects and start-ups). These topics should be seen in their wider contexts, including that of a project or organisation’s income or business model.