On 09/19/2016 04:37 PM, Michael Siepmann wrote: > On 09/19/2016 01:57 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> "Free the Commons" is a nice, short, relevant slogan. It's a call-to-action. >> >> But freeing in what sense? What commons? What are "the commons"? And >> technically, "commons" are rivalrous shared resources, not actually the >> public goods which are technically what we're working with. >> >> I just was chatting with Robert and ended up saying "I don't think we'll >> come up with much better, but the idea we want to express is something >> like 'Crowdmatching to fund public goods'" >> >> Well, what do you think? >> >> ** Crowdmatching to fund public goods ** >> >> It's longer and wordier than "free the commons" but is more accurate. It >> gets right away into our use of 'crowdmatching' and clarifies that it's >> for fundraising, and uses "public goods" correctly. I'd think a reader >> would immediately say "what's crowdmatching?" and "what are public >> goods?" at which point those are indeed *the* two questions we want >> people to ask and that we want to answer concisely in order to introduce >> Snowdrift.coop. > > I strongly agree. I while ago I suggested "Catalyzing creation of > public goods" among other ideas for a new tagline. "Catalyzing > creation..." was definitely too vague, but the term "crowdmatching" > didn't occur to me until a few months later. I think this new > combination of "crowdmatching", "fund", and "public goods" is excellent > and should be a big help in quickly giving people a basic understanding > of what Snowdrift.coop is about. > >
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