OED: Free and Maintained

OED depends on the freely given contributions from several groups. The primary one is those that develop the code base. These have mostly been students who do it because they believe in our humanitarian efforts for sustainability and also to get a valuable experience by working with a real project. The other large group is all actual or potential users of the dashboard. These include sustainability people, users of the dashboard, energy managers, etc. They provide direction for the features OED provides and feedback on both early version of features as well as on the production version of OED. The OED project has found that our mission and principles resonate with all these people and they are willing to generously give their time for the common good. While each person might have a certain area or interest in the dashboard, they collectively move the project forward as a whole. The end result is a high-quality, free energy dashboard that informs people about usage while also freeing up time and money to support other initiates in sustainability. The OED project has found this model to be viable and strongly believes it will continue into the future, esp. as more people use OED.