Hi Aaron, I'd be interested in being on the steering committee. Can you invite me to view your materials? Thanks so much. Joanie
On Dec 7, 2012, at 12:51 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have been working for several months (after years of general research and > interest) on founding a new fundraising system dedicated to Free/Open works: > software, data, research, art/music, etc. > > There are several things which distinguish our proposed system from the > existing platforms: > > 1. We will require all listed projects to accept approved Free/Open licenses > > 2. We are not doing one-time fund drives. We are looking to slowly build > broad communities of donors for long-term support of projects and authors. > > 3. We have designed a novel mechanism to address the problems with > encouraging as many people as possible to join the community. A simplistic > explanation is: each pledge starts near zero and increases only when more > people pledge as well. Essentially, each donation is contingent on everyone > else donating; like matching funds but achieved geometrically across everyone > in the system, growing further with each new donor. > > Furthermore, we are going all the way with our ideals on this project. It > will be run cooperatively, it will have an honor system, and it will focus on > duty, freedom, and common good over calculated rewards to individual donors. > > We have a detailed proposal, a website and system in progress, and many > partially-formed ideas for how the whole thing will eventually look and > function. > > At this point, we are recruiting a steering committee to help us see the > project through. We will have online discussions about the precise policies, > the details of the site, and more. There is room for anyone supportive to be > involved even if you cannot consider joining the committee. Feedback is > appreciated. We're going to get the code on GitHub soon and are looking for > extra contributors to that. We're also networking and trying to connect to > anyone sympathetic to our values who could play any helpful part in the > process. > > Please let me know if you are interested in even just learning more about the > project at this stage, potentially to be involved in some way. > > The site is http://snowdrift.coop but you'll need to have me send you a > personal invitation code to access anything right now, since we aren't public > yet. We'll add a publicly accessible contact form ASAP, but until then you > could let me know how to reach you by posting here or writing to me at > [email protected] > > Cheers, > Aaron Wolf > Ann Arbor, MI, USA > > -- > Aaron Wolf > wolftune.com > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss Joanie Gillispie, PhD cyber.rules: What You Really Need To Know About The Internet Multimedia, Psychology, & Education Departments, Berkeley City College 2050 Center St., Berkeley CA (415) 264-3919 [email protected]
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