What you get

• Software built for a real problem, with the person who has that problem on the record.
• Code you can read, audit and run yourself. No vendor. No lock-in. The licence is on the repo.
• A team that already knows the code, listed on the bench, who you can hire directly. We take nothing from that.
• Your name on the project page as its adopter, and the right to say the thing was built on enabos.

What adoption is

You take a finished nabo and run it, on your own or with its team. You are listed on its page as an adopter, with the date. That is it. The licence already lets you use the code; nothing here changes that. A nabo still being built cannot be adopted; you can fund it while you wait.

The covenant, and who signs it

Adopting is signing one short covenant with us. It puts your name and country on the project page, and it lets you carry the project's name in what you run. The code is open to the whole world; the name and the adopter's place on the page are not, and both are withdrawn if the pledge lapses. The code never is, because the code already belongs to everyone.

Adoption is African-led. African individuals, companies, groups and governments sign directly. From outside the continent? Adopt together with an African partner: the covenant is signed jointly, both names go on the page, and the African partner is on the record.

Ready to adopt (0)

First call always goes to the person who posted it. What is listed here, they chose to open.

Nothing opened yet.

Being built right now, adoptable when finished and opened: Daraja Studio is a simple alternative to safaricom's organization portal.

The pledge

When a project goes live under your name we ask for a pledge: a flat amount, once when you go live or yearly as a sponsor. You set the amount. It is voluntary, and it is public: the amount sits next to your name on the project page.

It is never a percentage of your revenue, your budget, or anything else. Nobody is audited. A flat, public amount is something a procurement office can approve and a community can see.

Where a pledge goes

• the team, by score share60%
• the person who posted the problem20%
• running this site20%

Score share means the same numbers that rank the bench: whoever did more of the work gets more of the pledge. Every pledge, and where it went, is listed on the support page.

Other ways to help a project

• Hire the director or the team to deploy, train or extend it. Deal directly with them.
• Fund a nabo while it is still on the board. The pledge waits for the team that builds it. It does not move the nabo up.
• Give hosting, hardware or data the project needs.

What we do not do

• Sell exclusive rights. Everyone gets the same code.
• Let a closed fork carry the enabos name.
• Move a project up the board because someone paid.
• List an adopter from outside Africa on their own. Foreign partners adopt jointly with an African one.

Talk to us

Say which project, who you are, and what going live looks like for you. A person answers.