How much funding did Martus require?
Martus required an initial investment of approximately $650,000 for development of the software and initial outreach and training campaigns. This has been provided by major grants from Aspiration/Open Society Institute and high technology leaders, as well as significant funding from Benetech. Additional funds are required over the next two years to continue enhancing the technology and provide outreach, training and support to greater numbers of users. Consequently, Martus will be funded by revenues generated from providing customization tools for larger NGOs and from providing ASP and training services for server operations. These revenues will cover the costs of continued open source development on a limited scale.
