This looks great Saul! I'll definitely pop down... It seems like this kind of model could have lots of interesting applications for the collaborative funding of software/knowledge projects!
Looking forward to it... J. Saul Albert wrote: > Dear OKFNers, > > This is a live game-show version of OKFN advisory board member Peter > Suber's 'Nomic' game of constitutional amendment - with added glam. > Please come, and invite your friends! I'd be interested in your > feedback! > ------------------ > * 'Who Wants to Be...?' - the spontaneous, democratic game-show * > * 7th November 2008, 8-10pm * > * The Unicorn Theatre, London Bridge * > > 'Who Wants to Be...?' is a live reality game-show where the audience > make up the questions, have all the answers, and set their own rules. > > 200 people will buy £10 tickets making a £2000 cash pot, then spend 2 > hours proposing, discussing, and creatively modifying each others ideas > for what to do together with a £2k budget. 'Who Wants to Be...?' is: > > A radical experiment in audience participation http://tinyurl.com/wwtb0 > A fun new way to support & fund local projects http://tinyurl.com/wwtb3 > A tool for public visualisation and co-design http://tinyurl.com/wwtb1 > > Previously on 'Who Wants to Be...?' the audience very nearly voted to > sack the host and put their money behind the theatre bar. Suggestions > included group ownership of a dog, guerilla gardening in the City of > London, and a symbolic burning of the cash. Finally the audience decided > to buy a woodland! Each audience member is now a co-owner of a share in > a beautiful Welsh woodland to be looked after for future generations. > > £2000 buys anything from a prefabricated log cabin to a signed Damien > Hirst print, 9642 packets of crisps, or rent on a London flat for a > month of parties. Gamble it, donate it, invest it, waste it! Bring your > ideas, your tenner and your vote to the Unicorn Theatre on Friday 7th of > November and decide. > > Book (invest in) your tickets at http://whowantstobe.co.uk/ > > ------------- > 'Who Wants to Be...?' is part of the London Games Fringe, a festival of > alternative gaming events at the end of October 2008, organised by > artists, academics, gamers, game developers, educators and creative > professionals from a wide range of different media: > http://www.londongamesfringe.com _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
