Hey guys,
All in all it's pretty good! But there is one thing I noticed when I read the
text to other people. It's the "site-wide" budget in part 7 that seems to be a
bit confusing.
7. And your pledges stay active as long as they fit within your site-wide
budget.
I would replace "your site-wide budget" with "your defined monthly budget":
7. And your pledges stay active as long as they fit within your defined monthly
budget.
Why: Firstly, I think no one will get, what you mean by a "site-wide budget".
It's just to abstract. I read it to two people and they didn't get that part...
How the mechanism of the budget is working should be easily clarified on the
website later. I think for the video it's only important, that you know there
is a budget limit that you can set yourself. If it's side-wite or not, is not
important in the first place. Secondly in this version it's more obvious that
you can define the budget yourself. And thirdly, it's an additional hint, that
snowdrift is about monthly payments. I know, there are already two, but as this
is an important point I think it's ok to mention it again.
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Subject: Re: [Snowdrift-design] new video script draft
Local Time: 9. Januar 2017 3:50 AM
UTC Time: 9. Januar 2017 02:50
From: stephen.mic...@tufts.edu
To: Design discussion for Snowdrift.coop <design@lists.snowdrift.coop>,
t...@lists.snowdrift.coop <t...@lists.snowdrift.coop>
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:56 PM, Aaron Wolf <aa...@snowdrift.coop> wrote:
We're getting close!! We need to work on the last pre-sign-off line(s) to
solidify this thing. I'm happy to suggest as a final draft for everything
except the second-to-last section. SCRIPT: 1. Things like software, music,
journalism, and research *can* be public goods, freely used and shared by
*everyone*. 2. But instead, publishers typically add restrictions in order to
secure funding. 3. Meanwhile, projects releasing their work under free and open
terms struggle. 4. To address this dilemma, we developed a new fundraising
method we call crowd**matching**. 5. Rather than donate alone, you pledge to
make a monthly contribution of 1 cent for every 10 patrons who give to the same
project with you. 6. 1,000 patrons donating $1 is $1,000, but with 5,000
patrons at just $5 each, a project would receive $25,000 a month! 7. ??? [see
notes below; something mentioning budget (probably vague, just giving idea that
you can learn more reading the how-it-works page) and emphasizing the positive
qualities of the system as a whole] 8. Join Snowdrift.coop today, and help
clear the path to a free and open future! --- Aaron's thoughts on 7: * goal: an
inspiring and informative vision of the system overall * must mention budget *
avoid vague claims, buzzwords, marketing-speak in favor of factual informative
content * the vision can emphasize any of: * pledging to many projects * only
donating much to those that have buy-in from others / those projects "people
value most" (consensus, avoiding fragmentation / a few successful projects is
better than many failing ones) * a budget where projects that get *too* popular
get cut off * no time here but ideal impression of how this mediates runaway
growth, and a popular project doesn't *directly* cause the drop of another
project * you have control to stay on-board with a super popular project by
either (A) dropping others or (B) increasing your budget * you can observe over
time to favor those projects that make the most impact (accountability) * your
pledges are part of inviting others to pledge * providing sustainable, reliable
salaries to project teams * we only have time for some of these things *
"directs your budget to most-valued" ideas are misleading in that it only
applies *before* hitting your limit. At your limit, projects that get popular
will be dropped first. * To ensure people have a clear sense of budget or at
least open questions and not misunderstandings, these are the implications to
avoid: * wrong: you always give your whole budget * wrong: you can always keep
donating without passing your limit (effectively reneging on the matching
pledge) * wrong: you can set a different budget for each project * we have at
most about 15 seconds for whatever best compromise of these things we can
achieve
After more work today, the latest draft stands at:
```
1. Things like software, music, journalism, and research *can* be public goods,
freely used and shared by *everyone*.
2. But instead, publishers typically add restrictions in order to secure
funding.
3. Meanwhile, projects releasing their work under free and open terms struggle.
4. To enable the widespread cooperation needed to solve this dilemma, we
developed a new fundraising method we call "crowdmatching".
5. To support a project, you pledge to donate 1 cent for every 10 patrons who
give with you each month.
6. 1,000 patrons each put in a dollar, but with 5,000 patrons at 5 dollars, a
project would get 25,000 dollars a month!
7. And your pledges stay active as long as they fit within your site-wide
budget.
8. Join Snowdrift.coop today, and help clear the path to a free and open future!
```
I did a read-through and got 53.4 seconds.
We're almost at the point where we cannot afford to spend any more time on
this. Perfect is the enemy of good, and whatnot. I am going to push for
declaring it final during or immediately after tomorrow's meeting.
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