Very inspiring, Milos. Thanks for sharing. Might be good story for Wikimedia blog.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:wikimedia-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 6:43 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Underwater photos and videos / WMRS Microgrants > 2014 > > For the last month or so I want to share with you the initial success of the > Microgrants 2014 project of Wikimedia Serbia. However, there are a number > of stories and it was too much to me to write about all of them at once. So, I > am splitting it, which means that you can expect more stories during the next > days. > > Inside of this email, first a bit about the project Microgrants, then about > the > particular project. > > * * * > > In brief, the goals of WMRS Microgrants project is to build capacities of > Wikimedia Serbia and to make WMRS more visible. Projects themselves are > of secondary importance. The idea is to engage individuals and organizations > in creation free content, as well as to find active volunteers inside of that > pool. > > Although there are many possible cool ideas, I didn't want to base the > project on something unpredictable, but on more or less predictable > parameters. For example, if we get ~10 more active Wikimedians thanks to > that project, it would be success. > > However, it turns out that some of my wet dreams have become reality :D > My unexpressed idea was that if we reach relevant population, we'll get > some very cool projects. > > The initial budget for all projects was 2500 EUR. Thanks to WMRS Board and > staff, that budget raised for, AFAIK, ~2000 EUR, so all relevant projects got > funding (which was between 400 and 500 per project). > > * * * > > This email is about the coolest project which we got. (However, there are > other projects, even more significant than this one. This one is just the > coolest :D ) It's about recording underwater world of Drina River [1]. So, > yes, > we'll get photos and videos of underwater species. > > Two persons who are doing that are called "Liquid Art" [2]. Please, take a > look > at their materials. > > One of very important conclusions about the work with them is that one of > my premises turns out to be true. > > They are artists. They are living of making artistic movies about underwater > worlds. They needed just co-funding (500 EUR) and they will give us all > materials relevant to us, for educational purposes. They will create movies, > make other steps to compile them into artistic experience, and that material > is their, proprietary. However, educational materials will be copylefted. > > But, that's not the end of the story... > > We were actually lucky to start this project with them. They are in Serbia (in > Novi Sad) just because their ship is docked in Caribbean to be repaired. Oh, > and they didn't want to go to make underwater photos of Caribbean, but > underwater photos and videos of the Southern Ocean, Antarctica. > > They have other materials, as well as they are making underwater photos all > over the world. Their destinations for the next year are Thailand and > Antarctica. > > After they come back from their Drina expedition, we are going to talk about > liberating their older materials. > > Basically, those people are living from their work, but they have enough > space to contribute to the free content corpus, as well as they are willing to > do so. And I am sure that there are many such people all over the world. > > * * * > > Obviously, I'd like to see other affiliate organizations doing similar > things. At > some point of time I'll write a know-how for making that kind of projects. In > the meantime, feel free to approach me via email or ask the questions here, > so everybody would be able to read and participate. > > * * * > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drina > [2] https://liquid-art.net/ (some of their material is locked, as they didn't > publish those videos yet; narration of their movies is in Serbian, but I am > sure > that we can convince them to make English versions, as well :) ) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
