Revenue

From Open Learning Labs Wiki

The following is a partial list of potential revenue streams. There will be many variations depending on whether the entity is a non-profit, for-profit or has an affiliation with both.

• Sponsorships & Underwriting: Provide a wide range of sponsorship and underwriting opportunities on content and properties.
• Grants & Donations: All content and code will generated from our program will be open (open source, creative commons, etc.) and educational/cause related.
• Earned-Income
  • Technology services - Custom development, design, theming, and consulting.
  • Production services - State-of-the-art studio, field, and post production equipment.
  • Web Products - Open source products provided to customers or resellers.
  • Ticket sales
  • Merchandise - CDs, DVDs, Books, T-shirts, other swag
• Subscription-Based: Stakeholders will have several opportunities to subscribe
  • Web properties
  • Content
  • Educational programs
  • Products as a hosted or subscription based service
• Audience supported: Similar to public broadcasting, we will provide our audience and stakeholders several opportunities to financially support the content and products they value.
• Apprentices, volunteers, and strategic partners: A majority of our business value will be a derivative of our complimentary learning programs. By channeling funds through FossFactory we can allocate a percentage of revenue to support our staff while the rest is allocated to the mentors, apprentices, and strategic partners.