Re: [Ogf-l] Interest in Free/Community Setting

[Margaret Vining]

Rob,        I am working on that, actually, but I'm not involving a lot of people until everything is legal.  Anyone will be able to contribute if they do so as a contracted "volunteer".  It is the only way IMO to obtain openness and quality control at the same time.  The final products will be physically published, highly professional, playtested, and 100% open.  Hopefully an annual publication will serve as a reliable fundraiser, but we aren't banking on it.  Profits from those products are going to go toward our charitable programs.   I'm not going to take up space on Ryan's list to discuss this, but when I am ready I will announce our discussion lists, and web site.         Obviously, you are free to do whatever you want but I went through a number of growing pains in my previous attempt to establish an open world creation project.  My way isn't going to be the only way, but after a year of hell I think it is, thus far, the best way.        With that said I have this advice to give to anyone who is going to attempt a 100% open setting (*group*) project:   1.  Get organized first.  (have goals, write some bylaws, figure out how things are going to get done, think about where you want your project to be in a few years and in 20 years.)   2.  Take your time in finding competent people to place in leadership positions.  "Willing" is not a skill.    3.   Many projects start with a large amount of support.  Your goal is to do what will keep the project viable _not_ what will keep it popular.  It is easy to confuse the two.   4.  Design the world so that inconsistencies do not have to be explained, or finish the project before you publish it as open.   Good Luck!   Maggie ----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Lowry Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ogf-l] Interest in Free/Community Setting Over the weekend I was messing around with Campaign Cartographer, and the associated tools and whipped up a decent 'World' for use in a Fantasy setting. I am willing to contribute this world to any publishers are interested in an Open world that we can all build on. The idea would be that anyone can contribute and use other contributions, and it would give a solid, re-usable setting for the score of adventures to come. Anyone remotely intested? Is this worth pursuing? I am not sure it falls under the auspices of the Free20 idea as it is primarily meant to be a commercial product, but completely Open. If anyone is interested, I would love to move toward the goal of setting up a web page, moving the .jpg of the world there, as well as making the Campaign Cartographer data for the world online, allowing folks to download and modify as necessary. I even found a neat point on the map to represent the Freeport products, however, due to me tweaking the temp of the world and omitting polar regions, there would be a lack of Frost Apess (sorry Clark) -Rob/Grok _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com