Its interesting to compare this discussion to the one on the TechDis Toolbar over on the CETIS list... here is a good summary:
http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/09/06/surviving-intitial-project-funding/
This is also a reason why I disagree with Tom about the IPR issue - having open IPR makes it easier for others to take forward a version of the service or project if the original sponsor cannot - or choose not to - sustain it.
A good question was asked earlier about whether another group could make a "poor man's Intute" - I'd also ask whether you can fork Intute's platform (and processes) and see if it can be run sustainably using a different funding model. (maybe with a better name ;-)
On 6 Sep 2010, at 12:49, C Oppenheim wrote:
> A business model may indeed be that a service is publicly funded ad infinitum, but that was never the intention for Intute.
>
> I would frankly be gob smacked if Fred's employers, Nottingham University, doesn't have a business model, budgets or corporate plans. Yes, all educational establishments have to be run properly. Business does not necessarily imply profit.
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> Charles
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>> Incidentally, if the rumours are true (I stress these are just rumours
>> I have picked up over the years), Intute had ample warning from JISC
>> about it''s unhappiness at the lack of development of a realistic
>> business model for Intute.
>
> "business model"? Funny, I could have sworn that Intute was a
> publicly-funded educational service, not a business ;-|. If educational
> bodies are required to be 'businesses' then that's most of them biting
> the dust, then.
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