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The objective of a dissemination plan is to identify and plan the activities that have to be performed in order to promote the commercial aspects of a project to various audiences.
I made the Aeroborator to help me figure out 'How not to kill plants'. After many failed attempts at trying to keep plants of various kinds alive - I struggled with the amounts of water, sunlight, temperature required for different plants. To make this easier and learn more about how plants grow successfully I created the Aeroborator.
The Aeroborator can be used by anybody who shares these same struggles. It not only empowers people to grow their own food scientifically and share information, but also enables them to make the tool by themselves.
It is meant to bridge the gap between theory and large scale food production by setting a stage for testing and experimentation.
It will enable future growers use controlled environment conditions and monitor them independently.
The design and the development plans for the machine will be shared online through various sharing platforms. But the information about correct parameters for successfully growing information will be shared on an online platform for a cost. People sharing this information will also earn for their inputs. And to participate maybe a subscription model can be employed.
It sets a stage for initialisation of distributed food growing in all parts of the world to increase self sustainability and reduce food related dependencies on unhealthy logistic and supply chain systems.
For initial **funding**, I would like to make a crowdfunding campaign. Sell subscriptions or memberships to the contributors.
This not only will gather initial capital to make the platform and perform various setting up activities but also validate the need and demand for the project. It will be a direct indicator for whether people are actually interested and also create an initial target audience.
The basic design will be **shared** on marketplaces like [FabMarket](https://market.fablabs.io/), [Wikifactory](https://wikifactory.com/), [Instructables](https://www.instructables.com).
2. Business Plan
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I used this tool called the business model canvas to define the key aspects of the business - the key stakeholders, activities, define value creation and costs.
3. Licensing
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This section is me learning all the different options for open-source sharing licenses to select the appropriate one for my project.
1\. [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/)
Creative Commons offer a set of copyright licenses which are a simple standardized way to give permission to others to use a creative work.
a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works
They have six different licenses depending on the kind of rights offered.
**CC BY**
This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
**CC BY-SA**
This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
**CC BY-ND**
This license lets others reuse the work for any purpose, including commercially; however, it cannot be shared with others in adapted form, and credit must be provided to you.
**CC BY-NC**
This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
**CC BY-NC-SA**
This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
**CC BY-NC-ND**
This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
2\. GPL General Public License
The GPL offers many freedoms to the users:
the freedom to use the software for any purpose,
the freedom to change the software to suit your needs,
the freedom to share the software with your friends and neighbors,
the freedom to share the changes you make.
4\. Simplified BSD license**
This license allows redistribution and use in source or binary form, with or without modification, if:
1. Redistributions of source code are retained in the copyright notice, list of conditions and the specified disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
5\. The MIT license
The MIT License is a permissive free software license and it puts only very limited restriction on reuse and has, therefore, high license compatibility. It is very popular because it can be re-licensed under other licenses like the GPL.
To chose a license I tried to think of my final intervention of MDEF, the AMD shield project. The design files are all hosted on a GIT repo and open for sharing, modifying and using. But as it has been developed using a lot of different open-source designs I do not want to make the user commercialise it. I also want other developers to share it therefore I choose the most lenient but commercially restrive , and sharable license - the CC BY-NC-SA
This basically means that:
Attribution - One must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
Non-commercial - One may not use the material for commercial purposes.
And ShareAlike - If they remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must distribute my contributions under the same license as the original.