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6: Grant Funding: What Happens When You Pay for Open Source Work? with Max Ogden
Category: Technology
Duration: 01:14:14
Publish Date: 2016-09-01 09:00:00
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On today's show Nadia and Mikeal talk with Max Ogden, creator of Dat, an open source, decentralized tool for distributing data sets. Max has also done a lot of work in the Node.js ecosystem, including helping start NodeSchool and publishing hundreds of modules to npm. He was also one of the first Code for America fellows.

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We talked about how he figured out grants were right for developing Dat, and how he managed to find his first funders. We also got into the mechanics of grant funding. Max shared what it's like to work with grant funders, and how to build those early relationships if you're looking for grants yourself.
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