[bdcravens]

This violates Kickstarter rules.

See the $50 pledge: The price will jump to $100 after the Kickstarter, so sign up now!"

Kickstarter project guidelines: Kickstarter cannot be used to fund e-commerce, business, and social networking websites or apps. (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines#prohibited)

No matter if you throw the "education" label on it, it's still a paid membership site. A business website.

Even if it were allowed, it's miscategorized. The "Open Software" category is to fund open source projects, not education efforts about open source software. I don't see that any of the software that would come out of this project would be released as open source.

[tomku]

The local learning environment gem is "Open source (license TBD)" according to the page.

Edit: Since you responded to my other comment - I'm not claiming that what they're doing is allowed by the rules, just responding to that particular point.

[bdcravens]

Yes, but that's not the totality of the project. Had it been limited to that, it would probably be ok.

[pc86]

We'll find out. I submitted a note to Kickstarter informing of the project and that it may be a violation of their rules. We'll see if they take it down.