Aaron, the Snowdrift project sounds amazing. Funding and sustainability for open culture projects is indeed a key issue, and Snowdrift sounds like an innovative way to tackle it. I've had other thoughts as well, perhaps compatible that I'd share some time.
I live in TX (am awaiting approval of my application to be an OKfn Ambassador in Austin), and have been a firm believer in CC BY-SA for collaborative and personal art for many years. You can be sure that I'll be getting materials together to submit. I am actually just now launching a project as part of an Austin arts festival; a digital installation of my work, downloadable as CC BY-SA. The timespan it's available for download right now will be limited, but mainly just to add a bit of interaction and drama to the current festival; it'll go up permanently down the line. http://vessel.cc In the meantime, as I explore Snowdrift and perhaps get my own submissions together, I wanted to invite you to the Google+ Community I've created dedicated to CC BY-SA. Please feel free to spread the word and invite the like-minded! https://plus.google.com/communities/105936311696007329936 More soon, - Heath On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > I made announcements last year when things were just getting going. We had > some interesting discussion but there was a lot of confusion about what we > were proposing. Lots of work has happened since then, and we are now in the > process of more publicly publishing things, and we have clarified the > system greatly. > > An overview: 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 published a new clear homepage > and updated About pages. We also have many drafts of additional details and > plans that are not yet published (but will be very soon). 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > >
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