[ANN][Pre-ICO] OpenGift - solution for Software Monetization

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OpenGift - New Model of Software Monetization
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What is OpenGift?
OpenGift is a place where companies and users can direct open source software development with their donations.

OpenGift vision at glance
All software should be free and open-sourced. People should pay only for fulfilling their requests for building new software/features.

OpenGift Changes Everything
Old: https://opengift.io/static/img/promo/png-1.png
New: https://opengift.io/static/img/promo/png-2.png

Why care?
Many developers all around the world write the same code for different organizations. Companies day by day spend millions of dollars to build something that already exists...
VR/AR and AI solutions, self-driving cars and virtual assistants, all these break-through innovations are going to become much more expensive than they are needed to be.
This can be changed with OpenGift.

Where is the market?
We target $357 billion software development market. We offer companies to cut a substantial part of their costs while not sacrificing quality and development time.

What has been done?
We launched MVP version of the platform and the blockchain network. The core functionality is already available on opengift.io  We also make weekly announcement of released features, you can get the updates on our Telegram chats.

Why do you need money?
Although donation-on-goal is a central feature of OpenGift platform, it’s not nearly enough for open source projects to compete with proprietary software rivals.
Organizations are getting paid for software development exactly because they are organizations. Thanks to established business processes and capacity to leverage external resources they can deliver solutions with quality and time predictable for clients, and provide add-on services like preparing documentation, providing training and support.

Our goal is it to give open source projects everything they need to become commercially successful: early-stage financing, team, marketing, access to clients and a platform to communicate with them.
It requires substantial funding both on development and marketing sides.

Why blockchain and cryptocurrency?
We use smart-contracts to guarantee transparent income distribution for projects teams and facilitate building open-source organizations.  

Why ICO?
We believe the platform should be completely free. This is the way to make it happen.

How are you different to other ICO projects?
People can donate on our platform only with internal currency called GIFT.
It means that GIFTs popularity will be based on sound market fundamentals, rather than short-lived crypto euphoria.

Give me the pre-ICO details!
PreSale will be performed in two phases:
Public PreSale: 1th of July – 1th of August.
GIFTs available for distribution: 10 000 000 (out of 160 000 000; no further emission implied)
GIFT price: 0,00012ETH + 15% bonus
Hard Cap =  1,200 ETH


We have an official page dedicated to crowdfunding campaign, where you can find further details: ICO PAGE

[ruli stylon]

does payment use ether, btc or fiat?
when does ico sale start?

Thank you

[BountyLord]

Hi dev,
"All software should be free and open-sourced. People should pay only for fulfilling their requests for building new software/features" - I think that you should speak with software producers. Please contact with Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and ask what they are thinking about this

[slbl]

does payment use ether, btc or fiat?
when does ico sale start?

Thank you

Thanks for your question,
now you can use  btc, we will add fiat and eth in a week.

[olegoleg117]

now we have some countries, which lives on money, from outsource development.
this project, will destroy many lives

[slbl]

now we have some countries, which lives on money, from outsource development.
this project, will destroy many lives

we want to help them They can join OSS dev teams, works in bug bounty program, etc.

[phoenixdowndee]

OpenGift has joined forces with Crowdholding. Click on the link below to read more.

http://bit.ly/2DaebtR

[phoenixdowndee]

OpenGift have a task on Crowdholding. Log in, co-create and receive crypto for your feedback.

http://bit.ly/2IaV0nC

[BittyBoBitty]

Proprietary Software vs. Open Source Software

When the concept of open source just appeared, it started a continued fight between the proponents of proprietary software and open source software advocates, which still goes no. Large market players such as Oracle and Microsoft considered open source as a threat to their proprietary IP and, in the bigger picture, their business model. Today many companies release proprietary software as well as open source projects, which has definitely regained its popularity in the late 90’s and early 00’s.

After Mozilla project was released by Netscape in 1998, a group of programmers lead by Eric Raymond gathered in Palo Alto to pick an alternative name for free software. After many discussions, Christine Peterson suggested the term ‘open source’. According to the activists, the profound difference between open source software and proprietary software was the availability of the source code to users.

In 1999, Red Hat and Linux showed tremendous growth, which lead to commonness and greater awareness of open source projects. Same year, IBM publicly announced its interest in Linux and invested $1 bln. in their future projects. In 2000, Microsystems developed OpenOffice.org and released the source code of its StarOffice Suite platform.

Massive investments from the industry giants such as IBM and Sun Microsystems have resulted in the rocket-fast adoption of open source in the current tech industry.

Source: https://medium.com/@opengift/software-is-meant-to-be-free-a-brief-history-of-open-source-3bb2364a5f82

[andreas-jon]

now we have some countries, which lives on money, from outsource development.
this project, will destroy many lives

I think this project is not going to destroy life, because they had a noble and good, hopefully this project had the support of a positive

[BittyBoBitty]

OpenGift team hasn't updated the community for quite a long time — but now we see some interesting news: the platform introduced a new business model. And this one is impressive. 

"now we are enabling any company or individual user to place a requests for the development of new software or the modification of existing software on the OpenGift platform. The requests can be submitted in any form: from idea to the elaborated technical brief.
Then, the request will be processed by independent project managers called ‘curators’, who will clarify the content of the task and the purpose of the proposed solution, translate the contents of the task from the customer’s language into developers’ language, and break the task into small modules and libraries.

Some of these units of code will be either specific for a certain customer or represent a significant product value for his business: such orders, if approved by the customer, will be forwarded to the closed task pool. Access to the closed pool is granted to OpenGift partners, i.e. companies professionally engaged in software development. Companies submit their estimates of the cost of tasks to the platform website, and the customer can choose any of them for further work and pay directly on the website.

The modules and libraries, that can be used by multiple companies and do not represent a significant product value, are placed in an open task pool. For this pool, the OpenGift team collects co-financing from potential users of the product. Thus, for a task worth $ 1000, ten companies can allocate $ 100, saving 90% of their costs."


More - https://medium.com/@opengift/the-platform-new-business-model-12e51e20fcad

[Namixi]

This looks like a very good project. I hope to have more people pay attention to it.

[Mi chael]

what will be the pre-sale price per token please? and the price during ICO?

[inoes]

what will be the pre-sale price per token please? and the price during ICO?

0,00012 ETH that price for now in pre-sale phase 1 with bonus 15%
but for main ico it say to be announced , I don't know why they didn't determine it from the start make it transparant as well