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Known

We're on a mission to help people and organizations own their own conversations online.

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Bring Known into the Fediverse.

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Top financial contributors

Individuals

1
Paul Lindner

$7,205 USD since Jan 2019

2
Ben Werdmuller

$3,820 USD since Jan 2019

3
Stephen Pieper

$350 USD since Feb 2019

4
Nick Grant

$340 USD since Apr 2019

5
Jonathan LaCour

$180 USD since Feb 2019

6
Johan Bové

$175 USD since Jun 2019

7
Greg McVerry

$125 USD since Jan 2019

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Katherine M. Moss

$125 USD since May 2021

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Jeremy Cherfas

$124 USD since Jan 2019

10
Takeshi Kakeda

$70 USD since Sep 2021

11
Zach Oglesby

$50 USD since Jul 2019

12
Mark Waters

$25 USD since Oct 2019

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Jonas Voss

$25 USD since Nov 2019

14
Abhas Abhinav

$25 USD since Jan 2021

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Simon Coopey

$25 USD since Apr 2022

Organizations

1
Media Search Group

$1 USD since Sep 2019

Known is all of us

Our contributors 24

Thank you for supporting Known.

Ben Werdmuller

Admin

$3,820 USD

Marcus Povey

Core Contributor

Paul Lindner

Backer

$7,205 USD

Stephen Pieper

Backer

$350 USD

Nick Grant

Backer

$340 USD

Known has powered my blog for 4 years. I write ...

Jonathan LaCour

Backer

$180 USD

Johan Bové

Backer

$175 USD

Happy to contribute to an Indieweb platform wit...

Greg McVerry

Backer

$125 USD

Katherine M. ...

Backer

$125 USD

Known has a great mission, and we can take them...

Takeshi Kakeda

Backer

$70 USD

Zach Oglesby

Mega Backer

$50 USD

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Today’s balance

$6,156.12 USD

Total raised

$10,955.06 USD

Total disbursed

$4,798.94 USD

Estimated annual budget

$1,076.80 USD

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News from Known

Updates on our activities and progress.

Thank you!

Thank you to our inaugural members. We're excited to be making the transition to an open collective; the intention is for Known, Inc to be completely wound down by the summer.We're working towards a stable 1.0 release, as well as IPFS su...
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Published on February 11, 2019 by Ben Werdmuller

Conversations

Let’s get the discussion going! This is a space for the community to converse, ask questions, say thank you, and get things done together.

Using the pool to move Known along

Published on October 16, 2021 by Ben Werdmuller

I'd like to use some of the funds here to push towards a new release of Known. There are a few big things on the agenda from my point of view:Improving import / exportImproving the theme, and in particular removing Bootstrap and jQueryBlogg...

About


Known allows any number of users to post to a shared site with blog posts, status updates, photographs, and more.

Its robust open source framework can be used to build fully-fledged community sites, or a blog for a single user. It's up to you.

Known is compatible with most shared web hosts. It can also run on cloud infrastructure, taking advantage of services like S3 and ElasticSearch.

Our team

Marcus Povey

Core Contributor