[Fiware-collaboration-request] FIWARE and the Creation of an Open Source Crowdfunding Administration Platform for European Funding Initiatives,

[Richard Kastelein]

Dear Fiware

We are currently involved in a consortium for EU CAPS funding of which part
of our proposal includes:

The Creation of an *Open Source Crowdfunding Administration Platform for
European Funding Initiatives *is being led by a social and sustainable
equity crowdfunding platform called www.oneplanetcrowd.com from The
Netherlands.

Our main objective is to build an open-source crowdfunding administration
system to administer obligations from entrepreneurs back to the
crowdfunders, to distribute repayments of loans, to distribute capital from
exit of shares and to have access to a detailed overview of portfolios.

As an open source administrative solution CROWDOS will offer a modular
solution for backend integration to both current open source and
proprietary solutions in the market via code base and APIs.

Standalone, it would have both a backend and frontend component where
crowdfunding companies would access and use the former while investors
could use that latter to consolidate and view their different investments
across different platforms.

The rapid rise in equity crowdfunding in Europe has led to enormous
fragmentation in the market in terms of software with individual European
crowdfunding companies primarily building proprietary versions of their
platforms. This is not only duplicitous, it is also ineffective in terms of
cost and sheer human resources besides that there is a lack of
standardisation in terms of user experience for European investors and
project owners who use these services.

Making the shift from building proprietary software to building Open Source
is new terrain for our company. It would be interesting to know if there's
any kind of fit between the resources of FIWARE, in hardware, software and
human resources (advisory) in helping us facilitate the project once
funded.

We have an ICT team in place, with a lot of experience in banking software
which is well suited for the project, but we could use more advice on our
Open Source strategy and how to ensure we move in the right direction in
terms of making sure our CROWDOS platform can be well disseminated amongst
those who perhaps want to build future crowdfunding platforms in Europe and
ensure we are also using all the potential resources that exist -
particularly in the H2020 realm.

We are interested in further talks on potential collaboration in the
future.

Please advise on next steps.

Warm Regards

* Richard Kastelein*
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