Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship - individual, no organisation, $275k project funding
- Free allowance
- Fellowship covers the Fellow's time for a year plus project funding reported at $275,000 per fellow per year, with the foundation matching the fellow's own contribution.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedApplication needs a 5-minute video and a CV
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Fellowship covers the Fellow's time for a year plus project funding reported at $275,000 per fellow per year, with the foundation matching the fellow's own contribution. Amount is set individually from the fellow's outside salary equivalent. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Highly competitive and theme-bound (technology, knowledge, learning for social change); requires full-time commitment and releasing all outputs openly; the fellow must put in their own money ('skin in the game'), which conflicts with a no-budget applicant. Application needs a 5-minute video and a CV. |
| Identity | email email |
| Egress | n/a - cash. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown n/a |
| Composes with | No organisation required and no geography restriction: 'Fellowship is not limited to any specific geographic location. However, applicants must be fluent in English'. Openness is the hard requirement - the work must be open source / open data / open access. |
| Reliability | One-year grants, renewable in practice for multi-year fellows, but per-fellow and discretionary. Not a storage programme - a way to fund one. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/funding/fellowship-programme/ | 'The fellowship is not limited to any specific geographic location. However, applicants must be fluent in English.' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/ | 'The project funding is $275,000 per...' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellowship-model/ | 'We make sure the Fellow invests, both personal resources as well as money into their projects' |
Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read