Hi Michael, Well, it will be interesting to see who is still out there to help to save the day. In whatever form this may take.
I feel very positive regarding the community's future, not because of the idea of receiving money, but because our excange process offer different ecologies which transcend singular processes of monetary demands alone. There is always a way, it depends what one is in it for :-) Wishing you well. marc > Oh - I absolutely agree Marc! It was the model of fund-drive that struck me as effective. I wouldn't change a thing about netbehaviour and furtherfield except if I could wave a magic wand to give you and Ruth more resources to do great stuff... > cheers > michael > > --- On Sun, 1/9/11, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: marc garrett <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Supporting Furtherfield > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 5:19 PM > > Hi Michael, > > I do like this idea, but do not want to go down the route like some do > when people do not pay, as in - not allow them access to the community. > This form of economical blackmail is wrong. > > marc > > I think the "community campaign", perhaps yearly, model that a number > > of organisations use is actually a good one -it focusses people's > > minds into actually pressing that button and donating & provides a > > hook to reach out to new people ... > > michael > > > > --- On *Sun, 1/9/11, Ruth Catlow /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > > > > > > From: Ruth Catlow <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Supporting Furtherfield > > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" > > <[email protected]> > > Cc: "Edward Picot" <[email protected]> > > Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 12:54 PM > > > > Hi All, > > > > Thanks for your ongoing thoughts on this. > > > > We have found no up-and-running, "clean" way to gather donations. > > The visa and paypal button is the portal to a pervasive network- > > and that is where the problems lie. There are some good starts in > > thinking about this here http://www.dyndy.net/bank/ > > ...and we will be keeping our ears open- so do tell if you find > > things. > > > > Our approach will be 3-fold once the new website goes live. > > > > For the first 2 options, our focus will be to raise money to run > > and develop the website. So we will be asking people for money and > > feedback: ) > > > > 1) The first is Visa and Paypal-free! (for the donor at least) - > > We will be asking people to send their old mobile phones to us- we > > will then send them off to be green-recycled for cash! > > > > 2) We will probably have a Paypal button for straight donations > > too : ( > > > > 3) for project funding http://www.kickstarter.com/ looks good. > > This uses the amazon visa payment mechanism. Donors only make the > > payment if the amount pledged reaches its goal. > > > > This is also an interesting micro-payment facility- not quite > > right for us at the moment though it could be in the future if we > > start to organised differently http://flattr.com/ > > > > > > Cheers! > > Ruth > > > > > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > <http://us.mc1145.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetBehaviour mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
