Concept Note A - Join an Existing Foundation

Hi. I'm the president of the Sahana Software Foundation, a US-based 501.c.3 nonprofit focused on humanitarian open source projects. Our main project is Sahana EDEN, an open source information management system for disaster management and humanitarian aid use-cases. I'm certainly interested in exploring whether it would make sense for us to be ODKs fiscal sponsor and nonprofit home.

We currently operate off of a "project-based spokescouncil process" that's designed to be "counter bureaucratic". We're very mindful that organizations that do admin tend to become bloated, over-restrictive, innovation-resistant and ultimately self-perpetuating. We're committed not to fall in that trap, which is why we've adopted a peer-council approach and also use an AirTable-based information management system to manage operationally relevant information. That way we can be entirely transparently with our member projects and, if our main admin (me) disappears then things can still move forward.

Happy to answer any questions and explore collaboration with you.

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