5. A non-profit organization?
No return on investment? No business model?
Are you going to put a photograph of your head in the banner of
iRail.be and ask for donations?
6. iRail as an independent living lab
pre-businessplan-projects
9. A coding event
● 1 month of fulltime coding
● Projects with public data
● Pollination
● Tech-support for every project
● No double work
● People exchange ideas
● We organize workshops
10. Sponsors
● iSoc sponsors
● Zeropoint.IT
● Xplore+
● «You»
● You get
● Logo visibility on SummerOfCode.be
● Visibility on workshops
● Visibility in the project's about
11. Investors/promoters
● Project ideas
● The DataTank – A generic REST API
● a “Megabike” for traindelays
● Visualizations for commuters
● «Your project-idea»
● Why should you invest?
● Last-year engineering students
● Cheap & well-done
● If not now, when will you do this project?
12. Spare words not used in this presentation,
but therefore not less relevant:
Innovation, essential, cloud computing, federated,
distributed, semantic, social, open data, scalable,
durable...