Sarah Perez reporting on the financial backing of the new Social Web Foundation. This is an impressive start:
The Ford Foundation has also offered the organization a large grant to get the project started. In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support.
Simon Woods As they should. The inventors of the social web deserve as much support as possible!
Dave Winer @SimonWoods – omg i thought that was serious. the name is ridiculous. there’s so much potential in that name, and they have their hands full finishing ActivityPub and getting some good example code out there. i’d love to see a bare bones activitypub Node app. That would be worth $1 million.
Simon Woods @dave No not serious at all — if we had that mythical “sarcasm font” I would have made liberal use of it in my reply. I’m with you; the name is bad, and combined with their fumbled announcement — weird proclamations, excluding Manton, etc — doesn’t engender much trust from an admittedly cynical blogger like me. To be honest, Dave, I’m confused as to why they didn’t stick to a name along the lines of ActivityPub. It would have been much more honest, at least.
Simon Woods I’m delighted money is being raised for the open web — we need proof of that happening as much as possible — but as ever I’m a stickler for the use of words. I don’t understand how bloggers can be so clumsy for such important moments. I suppose the people with money don’t care as much.
