rejon is Jon Phillips.

I’ve done a lot of work in the area of what some called, Digital Happenings, with Mesh.FM, setting up SFAI Design + Technology Salons and more recently the Creative Commons Salons in SF. Oh, and then, lets not forget then the great amount of work that has gone into Overlap.org’s several releases, multiple live shows, and coordination. For now, lets juts not talk about the open source projects.

Lu and I have been brewing these ideas together into, what I’m calling, Media Events, where the prime focus is to destroy the proscenium model and focus on making the main participants of an event both the performers/creators/producers and the consumers. Another way to look at this “media event” is that the performers become the audience, and vice versa, or for this event, the performers and media are in a flattened hierarchy, but that sounds too static. In Lessig-speak, the event is attempting to be media-centric “read/write” culture-y (that is Eric Steuer speak)

Tomorrow night, October 30 @ 111 Minna in downtown San Francisco, we will be experimenting with the “Media Event” setup with the Show Some Color 2 event I blogged about previously.

Come out tomorrow night from 6-9 PM! We are still hopeful to get a few more people there with video cameras. We will have all recorders (vloggers) license their work under a CC BY license, thus retaining their full copyright. Similarly, all people who come into the space are required to sign a model release form for more certainty for all recording. We are trying to do this legit, but also generate media from every single person who enters the space, and also provide copyright-awareness-power to the recorders of video.

Come on out and join us in this endeavour! Our goal is to generate some interesting content, but my alterior motive is to generate piles of content from the event and see how to make a simple happy hour have the magnitude of a large press conference…maybe as big as the hulu all night conference call

UPDATE and NOTE: This is a year old post, so its not up-to-date…oops…clearing the queue…The original post is here.

I’ve been trying to come up with unconventional ways to raise money for the small non-profit. Yesterday, someone decided to auction off their old web domain and give 90% of the money to Creative Commons. So, I started to think about all the code that is sitting on developers’ shelves, old domains, etc. I wonder if other developers would consider auctioning off domain names, old code, etc, and or just outright donating old code, domain names, etc. to Creative Commons. This code would get licensed so that it would be Open Source and I would even take the time to make a place for it that would be visible and accessible.

Does anyone have any code, failed or sleeping dot.com projects, and/or domain names they would like to donate to CC? CC could then decide what to do with these (auction, put online, developer further, etc). From the likes of the domain name auctions on Ebay, this is a great way to raise funds. However, I’m quite surprised that not more people are trying to sell their code on-line on ebay.

Also, I just now started to wonder about how to apply the similar logic of fundraising of naming certain properties after people, for the web. Like, how much of a donation would it take to get certain tools, sections of a website, or campaigns named after donors?

Maybe I should try this for my site. I could name my next open source tool after someone, for a donation of $1000 USD. Hmmm…maybe I should rename an old project if anyone is interested in this Ideally, also, the name would just be a name and the code would all stay as open source.

What other unconventional tactics can other people think of that would help CC or any nonprofit in the world, raise money to stay in operation? What new possibilities are there? So much time and money is spent on adapting and revolutionizing business, but what about simple nonprofit operations like fundraising?