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build at least some basic documentations about how to get involved in dev work (basics of the FTG platform, "indie edu bundle", etc.) #22
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Here's a discussion (live version at http://piratenpad.de/p/indie-edu-bundle) where we look for some common interests in a common platform and "social infrastructure". IntroductionPlanetMath is great, but to be honest it is something of a "niche" interest. And the same could be said about the Free Technology Guild, Independent Publishers of New England, the Bergamo Hub, Open Source Learning, Pub Dom Ed, and the Peeragogy project itself ... and possibly some other projects from other people here. Maybe most readers will like 2 or 3 of the things on this list.
Put together, the true operating costs of these projects in excess of $100,000 US dollar a year. But what if I told you that during our limited time offer, you could get premier access to any or all these projects AND get 5 free ebooks for only $15 dollars? Plus we'll throw in a printed copy of the Peeragogy Handbook, absolutely free! I see I've now gotten your attention. :-) My point is: If we wanted to get funding to hire a system administrator and part time developer to help us with all of our projects, we might not be able to do that from the point of view of any ONE of the projects I just mentioned. But if we banded together, I don't think we'd need more than one admin -- to do website stuff, platform development stuff, some documentation, some teaching. I don't have a candidate in mind at the moment, but I do have a model. It's the "Humble Indie Bundle". Let's assemble our best list of cool projects and make an "Indie Edu Bundle". Compare: Projects, needs, wants, offers...
Brainstorm for more projects to add inIs this projects or funding opportunities? Mostly "projects" to approach - but there's cross-over potential.
"Other" e.g. sponsors (?)
The Bundle: what you getThese offerings should be made as concrete as possible
Budget: how we will spend the moneytarget: $100000 US expenses:
reasonable expectationsDonations will be distributed according to a Zipf curve, perhaps something like this:
= Discussion
On https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly the minimum seems to be $1 and the average for the "weekly" is $3.75 -- so far this week that's added up to $75,602.97 !! Cool. (That's 20,233 purchases).
Well, I'm not sure what the "window" should be. The Humble Bundle people were inspired by sales of a game called World of Goo that sold 57,000 copies... The first Humble Bundle sort 116,000 copies in one week.
The way I see it, you need to support cc transactions or you'll drastically limit donations to exotic users.
99.9% of my own transactions are CC based, and all major vendors use CC transactions (Amazon, Google, Skype). And paypal of course. I remember funding through both kickstarter and the humble bundle with my CC as well. Typically your exotic user also has a CC if she has bitcoins. Supporting multiple payment methods can be added in the future, IMO.
Sounds good to me. It's Ruby code though. I feel better abut JS frameworks. Process
Timeline to completion~6 months (Launch date August, 2013) |
I am wondering whether it would not be a good idea to offer $1000: pay for internet connection or server hosting $4000: software development contract $16000: part-time sysadmin $64000: full-time administrator This way, the ascent is not as steep and we have something I am also not sure how the distribution of donations you present |
I've pitched Planetary as a rather ideal platform to use in both the Free Technology Guild and the Commons Abundance Network, where it would act as an asyncronous UI for the Node.JS semantic ticketing system, Netention. I'm not entirely sure how much buy-in there is for this proposal -- I'll want to get more feedback from Fabrizio Terzi and Wouter Tebbens (FTG) and Helene Finidori and Seth Horne (CAN) about whether a December 2013 timeline suits their plans at all. If so, I'll invite them to join this repo and we can start playing the "long game" 👍
The actual developer docs in progress are here: MathHubInfo/Legacy-planetary#88
The comments in this issue concern other aspects of getting people involved.
@kohlhase you might have thoughts about these outreach and social engineering issues? Perhaps you know of some other projects that we should be connecting with, to form a bigger user community (particularly ones related to education, and not just for math).
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