Positions available: 2

Overview Of CultureBanked

CultureBanked as an idea stems from an interrelated set of values and learning about how we, as individuals and groups, own, manage and value the content that we create and ‘share’ online. Our aim is to build an ‘Action Lab’ of cooperating peers and others who can drive the project forwards along with its goals of using creative rights to ‘hold collective value’ and to ‘manage it in new ways which empower people within systems’. www.culturebanked.org

CultureBanked as a service aims to manifest the values behind the idea.

We are building a Community Rights Management service for artists, galleries, museums, collections, audiences and all associated in the Kendraio data browser. The service includes asset and rights management, sales and tax reporting functions and services to increase interoperability for users according to their changing needs.

Kendraio Framework

Kendraio App is a low-code app environment that lends itself to rapid application development. Kendraio was created to service the creative/music industry to enable easy asset and rights management both locally and on third-party platforms. But what we've ended up creating is a generic data browser that plugs into remote APIs and enables highly configurable interfaces to be built. And we'll use this framework as the basis of this project. Please check out these links before accepting this mission: Kendraio App demo, Kendraio App on GitHub, Kendraio App documentation, Kendraio App website. As you create this project your feedback will influence the direction and capabilities of the Kendraio framework

CultureBanked MVP:

Digital Tax Payment Gateway

You will be challenged to survey functions in other applications managing either rights and/or accounts/revenue and to envisage and design a basic MVP which will perform the basic functions of splitting and directing values (rights/revenues) towards tax funds (eg HMRC), community funds (eg, crowd funding accounts) or others (eg any shared purpose where beneficiaries can be identified).

Role Requirements

• You will be building CultureBanked with the Kendraio framework (see below).
• Being able to work in a team is a must.
• Attention to detail is a must.
• You must know how to program with JavaScript/TypeScript and manipulate JSON.
• Some experience of Angular (version 9 and above) would be useful.
• An understanding of REST and GraphQL APIs is a must.
• You will need to have a little experience with Git code repository methodology. We use GitHub for our code.
• We will use Google Drive Docs and Sheets extensively.
• When you come to the interview make sure you have already signed up to Linear, GitHub, Google, LastPass, Hasura, Zoom, using your own Gmail/email address. You will need to tell us what this is.
• We will sign you up to our Slack channel.

We believe this project will require:

• Consulting with researchers on tax accounting and payment processes
• Consulting with other developers and researching potential uses of API’s
• Developing a functioning prototype.

The final deliverables include:

• A prototype and analysis of method for the recommended design of a single function to be included in the CultureBanked service.

Related roles/projects

• CultureBanked MVP: UX Design, ‘Personal Museum’
• CultureBanked MVP: Video Explainer
• CultureBanked MVP: Business Development and Fundraising

We are keen to hear from developers and UX designers and people with an accounting background. Supervision and mentoring will be provided on a full project management basis. There will be an open gateway at set times for ongoing consultations and supervision plans will be discussed at the beginning of the project along with their monitoring. An open culture of respecting and valuing ideas whilst always being open to their expression is essential and non-negotiable. Team members will have a high degree of ownership and control about the development of the MVP within agreed parameters.