💡 In simple words: WikiDeal needs software so people can give money and see their account on a dashboard. This call looks for developers to build it from the existing mockup, with a small payment now and a bigger one later if it works.

🎯 In 20 seconds (scientific summary): This early-bird open call (wave 1) invites independent developers to build and maintain WikiDeal's funding ecosystem: a dashboard with SSO to the wiki, plus Stripe and PayPal, based on the published mockup. Developers post questions and an offer; the committee then mandates a provider to develop, test and maintain it. Indicative target: US$1,000 cash plus 30,000 Rewards (no guarantee*).

Open call: funding ecosystem development

Open Call Status
Wave	First Wave (Early Bird)
Status	Not launched yet
Members / Commission	Undetermined (Under construction)
Chairperson	TBD
Facilitator	TBD

Status	Open · early bird (for pioneers)
Wave	1, WikiDeal global
Deadline	None announced: the call remains open until a provider is selected and mandated
Indicative budget	US$ 1,000 in direct cash + 30,000 in Rewards (no guarantee*), for about 100 hours of work
How to respond	Post on the answer page of this call
Disclosure	AI transparency mandatory

What this call is about

This is what we need to develop: the WikiDeal funding ecosystem, shown in this mockup:

https://aidev.wikideal.net/mockups/funding/

using Stripe and PayPal for payment.

We have a dedicated dev server running www.wikideal.net on MediaWiki. But for funding, we need a dashboard and other management tools with SSO (connected to our MediaWiki from wikideal.net) outside the MediaWiki instance.

How this call works

This call works differently from the other open calls:

Developers post their questions and their offer. On the answer page of this call, developers ask their questions on the mockup (how it works, the database, the SSO...) and propose their service, with links to their previous results and the sums requested in cash and in Rewards.
The steering committee contacts and mandates. The committee contacts candidates and mandates a provider to develop on the basis of the mockup, submit to test, adapt, then maintain the service without improvement during 1 year after delivery. Each improvement is paid by the hour.
Priority on new mandates. If the person has delivered the service to satisfaction, they get priority on new mandates.

What your offer must contain

We wish to get offers from software developers, with:

What needs to be clarified before starting to develop this "funding" ecosystem, and how you would see such a development (questions and answers, such as: which database, which SSO...). After we have provided answers that are accepted by potential software development service providers, we wish to receive answers to the following questions:
How much time, estimated, to develop and maintain this "WikiDeal funding" service during 12 months after delivering?
How much money would you accept to get in Rewards (not guaranteed, but ×10 compared to normal payment: for instance, instead of US$ 25/hour, it would be US$ 250/hour)?
How much money do you request in cash (amount paid 20% before starting, 50% at delivery, 30% between 12 and 24 months later)?

The deal we hope for

Ideally, for us, we would hope to have a deal such as:

US$ 10/hour in cash, and
US$ 300/hour in Rewards.

Total for 100 hours of work: US$ 1,000 paid cash in 3 parts + 30,000 Rewards if the project works.

For an explanation about Rewards, see Rewards and the Open Call FAQ.

Good to know

We give preference to persons expert in MediaWiki, since the /funding mockup is one of the rare developments needed outside MediaWiki.
The payer is the Ynternet.org Foundation, the Swiss non-profit foundation carrying the WikiDeal project at this stage (see the Open Call FAQ).
We give preference to persons able to charge at least 50% of their usual hourly rate in Rewards.
We only give a mandate to an independent worker with an invoice, not to employees.
We can provide all necessary guarantees of payment for the cash-paid part.
See also our Universal Code of Conduct, adapted from Wikimedia.

Every offer must include a full AI transparency disclosure: state which AI tools, if any, were used to prepare the offer, and how. The general rules of the Open Call apply, in particular the rules of the game.

Kindly,

Théo Bondolfi
Founder of wikideal.net
Chairman of Ynternet.org Foundation
theo.bondolfi@zen3.org