Funding

Sponsor admission guidelines ✋ ➡ 👍

Origin vs. purpose 🆔 🆚 🔎

We take very serious where our funds come from, to the extent that we think that their origin is more important than the purpose for which they will be used.

For this reason, we always make sure that any new sponsorship offer comes from legal and ethical sources.

We absolutely DO NOT welcome funding offers from companies which fall under the following categories:

• Share holders of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, and as a result, any other public company owned by the same share holders.
• https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/googl/institutional-holdings
• https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/goog/institutional-holdings
• Entities funded or owned in part or in total by Google or its dependant program “Google Summer of Code”.
• https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/
• Agricultural entities funded or owned in part or in total by companies which do not have an organic producer certificate, and therefore do not appear in any of these databases:
• https://organic.ams.usda.gov/integrity/Search.aspx
• https://datos.agroindustria.gob.ar/dataset/4bf568d6-dc12-48da-85df-8e9f7541d6ee/archivo/6ab26b25-c323-46b9-8cef-2de43c439e0f
• Entities funded or owned in part or in total by In-Q-Tel, the venture capital company owned by the Central Intelligence Agency of the federal government of the United States.
• https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/
• Entities funded or owned in part or in total by DARPA, NSA, FBI or any other dependency of the Department of Defence of the federal government of the United States.

There is published evidence as well as legal sentences which prove that many of the entities funded or owned by these companies or governmental dependencies have committed grave crimes that attempt against the common well being and even violate laws and human rights.

In the following table we provide some of the most relevant sources which explain with great detail how these transgressions were carried out.

Undesirable sponsors: examples of entities with low ethics standards