OK October 18, 2010
Possible interest
Pamela
From: Suresh Fernando <suresh2323@gmail.com>
Date: 17 October 2010 19:55
Subject: [OK] Fwd: [Ap-com] The Future We Deserve: Collaborative book project.... How about collaborative rich project?
Hey Folks,
This is the spirit of what would be really cool to create in a rich media environment. It would be really neat to have this basic idea, but to have a website where we can just continue to crowdsource content. The idea would be roughly to:
- Develop or identify a platform where you can upload various forms of rich media - video, music, pictures etc.
- Define a series of topics or themes and solicit short video clips etc. around those themes. The themes could be grand in scope `creating world peace!`, `solving climate change!`, `Ensuring no-one is hungry!` etc.
- Solicit tons of raw footage around the themes and have them uploaded to the appropriate theme specific section
- Process the footage in some way to maintain quality control - this is what will make the platform different from Youtube
- Curate content into more robust media project on a regular basis - six month intervals for example.
- Make a short film!
Suresh
From: Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy@appropedia.org>
Date: Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:14 AM
Subject: [Ap-com] The Future We Deserve: Collaborative book project
To: Appropedia community <appropedia-community@googlegroups.com>
Really interesting - a collaborative book project about collaboratively creating the future
Who wants to contribute? You've got a week (official deadline is Oct 24) then I think you can still tweak your entry for a few days after that.
7 days left!The Future We Deserve is a new book project about collaboratively creating the future we deserve. We will be working together at internet scale on internet time to brainstorm and barnstorm our way towards an image of a world we all believe in, a world of fairness, collaboration and living within a harmonious balance with nature. The book is open to all contributions — essays about technology, politics, working examples of better ways and fantastic ideas which just need to get done.
The print edition will be created together, as we collaborate to select and coordinate what goes into the final book. We'll use open licenses and crowdfunding to lower the barriers to collaboration, and do our level best to make the book the start of a ongoing journey together into the future we are shaping with our lives.
This is creating The Future We Deserve.
As an aside, this was started by active members of the Appropedia community (Vinay Gupta and Lucas González) , without seeking "approval" or help. They knew it was a match for Appropedia, and they wanted to give Appropedia some exposure as well, so they went ahead and did it. It's a great project.