Greetings everyone! I'd like to more formally announce the major project I've been working on since last year.
Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> is an ambitious project to revolutionize Free Culture. We start with the central idea of a novel assurance system to facilitate the worldwide community better funding Free Cultural Works and related projects. To that, we are adding engagement systems for wikis, discussions, tickets/suggestions, and more to provide holistic support for Free Culture projects. We are in the process of legal filing but intend to be a full 501(c)(3) non-profit *and* run as a member-owned cooperative! We are doing everything 100% Free wherever possible. We prohibit non-free licenses for projects, we are AGPL and CC-BY-SA, the whole site will function with NoScript and otherwise use only Free JS. As of just the last couple weeks, we have more clearly revealed the concept through our updated homepage and our updated About pages. We also have many drafts of additional details and plans that are not yet published. Anyone is free to ask me for an invitation to access the unpublished content in order to learn more or get involved. Our goal right now is to AVOID attention from anyone opposed to Free Culture. We are going more and more public, but I want to build a community based in the most dedicated Free Culture supporters and grow from there. If you want to help us succeed, please contact me and we'll talk about how you can help! Feel free also to spread the word to others who you think might volunteer to help us (but not to those who would be critical of Free Culture, we aren't functional yet, so no need to reach out to the general public until we've first made ourselves known within this community). All constructive feedback is greatly appreciated. Let me know any questions. Thanks everyone! -Aaron -- Aaron Wolf wolftune.com
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