On 29.01.2016 05:46, Aaron Wolf wrote: > FLO *does* have a remarkable amount of volunteers given the situation, > but we're still struggling greatly. > > I'd like to see an animated video that explains the dilemma like this: > > There's a couple roads completely covered in snow. > > At first, the public road has a few people coming to shovel. They have > small shovels and are not very efficient. They come and go, sometimes > there are more, sometimes less. The look like they are making some > progress, but it's slow, lots to do. > > Somewhere in the midst of this, two or three huge snow-plows come up to > the other road, start clearing it much more effectively, and they > construct toll booths with cameras and billboard ads. > > Then, we see a status quo like the recent poster we've done. > > Effectively, the status-quo of the public road isn't totally covered in > snow, it's getting usable, but it's not there yet. Tons of time and > effort has been put in, but it still doesn't compare at all to the power > of the snow plows. If only we had either or both (A) more volunteers (B) > funds to hire our own snow plows but on our terms without the other > bullshit. > > The point is to acknowledge the work that is done by highlight how > pathetic it is in *some* ways compared to the resources the proprietary > stuff has. We're not saying FLO status quo is hopeless, we're just > saying it's really rough still and struggles to compete despite being > more honorable. > > The later part of the same video or a second video in a series would > show the FLO folks making the Snowdrift.coop pledge and gathering > cooperative support and funding to hire snow-plows for the public road. > And thus explain in that animation how the Snowdrift.coop pledge works. > > We can clarify that this isn't really for *roads* per se, because we > have *taxes* to fund public roads already. But we don't have taxes to > fund FLO software enough or FLO journalism or art or education etc. Our > pledge is the best way to fill the gap in the absence of taxes, *and* > it's voluntary, democratic, and flexible in ways that traditional tax > systems are not. > > We could put this idea on a wiki or track it somewhere, or people who > feel up for it could start story-boarding or working on it or whatever, > if there's support for the idea. >
A video certainly is a great tool. But I'd propose you provide a rough description of what you need first: * intended message (purpose) * length * target audience * where it will be seen This would look much more like a constructive conversation starting point to me. But then again I can't imagine to take care of a video production right now. I also would like to wait until we have created other materials first. This is not a priority to spend time on for us now.
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