Well, there's no donation spot for the video yet, but you can always use the Semantic Forms donation page: http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/donate.html
You might be able to add a note to the donation specifying what it's for (I forget now), but if a donation comes any time in the near future, I'll assume it's for the video. :) -Yaron On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Javester <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yaron, > I'll see if I can round up some interest at my company to give back... > > But personally, I'd like to contribute to the effort. Is there > something like a Fund Jar ala MediaWiki Fund Drive (http:// > wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Now/en) where we can make > contributions? > > Best, > Joel > > On Jan 7, 4:23 pm, Yaron Koren <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > It's come up repeatedly from talking to people, and from my own > experience, > > that one of the biggest weaknesses of the Semantic MediaWiki system, if > not > > the biggest at the moment, is the lack of a good document to explain > things > > to beginning users. This is not a knock on the documentation on > > semantic-mediawiki.org and elsewhere, which is all very helpful; but > there's > > no substitute for a linear narrative that explains every detail and how > it > > fits into the bigger picture. Specifically, I think the most needed > > documentation would be an online tutorial video that explains Semantic > > MediaWiki and some of its extensions. I propose to create such a video. > > Because of the very large amount of information involved, the plan is to > > actually divide it into ten parts, each of which could be viewed on its > own. > > You can see my proposed outline for this video here: > > > > http://yaronkoren.com/smw-tutorial-video/ > > > > Given the size of the project, I don't think I can do it without funding. > If > > you, your company or your organization could benefit from the existence > of > > such a video - whether it's to learn more about the system yourself, to > help > > educate your employees or wiki co-editors, to make potential clients more > > comfortable and knowledgeable about it, or just because you believe in > the > > SMW project and want it to grow - please consider funding the project. > I'm > > not asking for money yet; I just want to get a sense for whether funding > of > > this video is possible. > > > > Sponsoring this project could also allow you to have more input on the > > actual contents of the video before it gets completed, and also to have > your > > organization's name listed as an official sponsor. If you're interested > in > > sponsoring or otherwise funding this project, please let me know how much > > financial support you would be willing to provide. > > > > And of course, donations for my other work on SMW extensions are always > > welcome; if you want to send funding simply as a way to sponsor the work > > I've done so far, that would be very much appreciated too. > > > > Thanks, > > Yaron > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
