2010/10/26 Milad <[email protected]>: > I couldn't put it any better than this. I don't see anyone with any > real experience with Blender. Not that I'm a Blender guru, but if this > needs to move, we need laborers, not just architects.
Milad, Give me some more time to boot this up. This is not something we have done earlier. But the potential of this project is enormous, so we have to do it. My immediate idea is to setup the project website and have a pretty good narrative of what we are going to do and what are the things we would like to achieve from this project - not just the end product. (If anyone would like to help with the website please reply). I look at this project as an opportunity to reach out to maximum number of people to spread the message of free culture - a culture of sharing a collaboration. It is not just about a movie project, but a completely new way of collaborating to create things in commons (Free Software and wikipedia have evolved models for similar ideas and this is our turn to find out a sustainable model for movie making). We definitely need some people to work on it full time and we need to raise funds for that. So as a parallel step to website can you come up with an initial estimate of how much money we would need? (Others who have got ideas about these kind of estimates, please help Milad). Once we have an initial estimate we can start grass root fund collection drive. I believe campuses and user groups will have a great role to play. I will start with some of the campuses here in Pune where I have access as a pilot and see how feasible the idea is. We could show Sita Sings the Blues, Elephants Dream, Sintel, Yes Men and other Free movies and ask people to contribute. Another idea I have is to sell DVDs/VCDs of these movies to generate some money. That kind of involvement in help fund the project is also an important contribution and I believe we can get some volunteers for that. We could approach some organisations (even Blender foundation itself) also for funding. Even if we don't get anywhere with this particular project, we would still be spreading message of Free Culture and getting people involved in Free Culture movement. Even if we fail, we would be learning lessons for future projects. When we learn to ride a bicycle we fall so many times, so lets not be afraid of falling and just learn to ride. I know if feels good to talk and write but making it a reality would take a great effort. But we have to start somewhere. We can start the content part when we reach a certain percentage of our estimate. That way no one has to make tough choices based on just a whacky idea. We will split the team into logistics support and creative team. Logistic support would take care of raising money and other technical details. Creative team will have complete freedom with the content of the project. So I will have the website ready by Monday and we will take the project from there. Milad, how much time you would need to come up with an initial estimate for the project? Also I don't want to pull you into this project unless we are sure of the resources and you have to compromise your personal project. So you give us the estimate and we will call you once we are confident about getting the resources (we raise a certain percentage of the estimate). -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
