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Unconventional Non-Profit Fundraising (casestudy: Creative Commons)

Published by
jon
at October 29, 2007 in Notes. 4 Comments

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?

Sneakmove Reports Christopher Willit Remix Contest

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jon
at November 15, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 0 Comments

Sneakmove reports about two new Creative Commons’ ccMixter.org’ remix contests:


there are two super cool creative commons-licensed remix contests happening now. check ‘em out.

creative commons, xlr8r magazine, and ghostly international are hosting the christopher willits “colors shifting” remix contest on ccmixter. the winning remix will be featured on an xlr8r incite cd compilation, which will be included with a future issue of xlr8r magazine.

also, saddle creek is hosting cursive’s bad sects remix contest. the winner of that contest will have their remix featured on the b-side to an upcoming cursive single.

What a good day! Possibly today is the best day for good news

Published by
jon
at November 8, 2006 in Notes. 6 Comments

So, first off, looks like Democrats are taking control of the House and Senate hopefully repealing and changing the current bad state of the United States. Then Rumsfeld resigns his post! What a great day!

I’m also feeling optimistic about the Microsoft/Novell deal now as well, as the complexities of it unfold.

Then, come to find out, one of my areas of major interest, Open Source Cellphones received a major boost with the announcement of the OpenMoko phone and Harold Welte’s involvment. This is great because I will be speaking at a conference in Taiwan in January, so hopefully can connect them up with Creative Commons Taiwan so we can get some properly licensed content onto these phones.

Oh, and to top it all off, tonite is the 10th Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco where the Homebrew Mobile Club, featuring Matthew Hamrick (who works for ACCESS, used to be palmsource) will be presenting about the “Complete Open Phone.”

UPDATE: The good news doesn’t end now that I see this post that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt is calling for making data EXPORT a key strategy and encouraging others to do so, similar to something I wrote in the past. This is so great. I want to work with Google more!

CC Salon on WED (TOMORROW) in SF. Check out the Final Line-Up.

Published by
jon
at November 7, 2006 in Notes. 0 Comments

I’m going to verbatim quote the CC blog post I just wrote. This is going to be a great salon, and hope that everyone in the bay can make it out:

REMINDER: CC Salon San Francisco this WED 6-9 PM at shinesf.com

Don’t miss the next CC Salon
at shinesf from 6-9 PM on Wednesday, November 8
in San Francisco. This salon features famed
blogger and
SF Bay
Guardian writer,
Annalee Newitz. Also,
Homebrew Mobile Club’s, Matthew Hamrick and
other HB Mobile Club members will be on hand to discuss his project’s
“Complete Open Phone,” a project to produce open source cellphones with CC licensed plans and content accessible on them. Finally, Wendell Davis is going to present the new
on-line music editor and mash-up community,
Splice. And, just added to the dynamic
line-up is Steve from
Alive in Baghdad, an amazing videoblog
of interviews and stories by Iraqis directly from the streets of Iraq, bypassing
corporate media. Throughout the salon the
Kleptones are going to spice up the
evening with music and interludes.

So come on out on Wednesday, bring a big stack of business cards,
some cash for drinks, and lets talk about the Commons. This is the last salon of
the year, as our regular 2nd-Wednesday December salon is combined with a special
birthday party for Creative Commons on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15. Stay tuned for more info.

You may track this CC Salon on upcoming.org. See you this Wednesday!

UPDATE: Come to the special Creative Commons Publishers’ Association meeting at 5 PM at the same place, Shinesf.com. NOTE: This is one hour earlier than the salon starts. From the even’t wiki page, it is characterized as a “A collection of representatives from organizations that publish content under a Creative Commons license.”

CC Salon San Francisco this WED 6-9 PM at shinesf.com

Published by
jon
at November 6, 2006 in Notes. 0 Comments

That’s right, don’t miss this week’s CC Salon at http://shinesf.com from 6-9 PM. The line-up is stellar: Homebrew Mobile Club releasing their open source cellphone plans, Flickr.com, Music by the Kleptones, and Annalee Newitz. We are probably going to have 1-2 more speakers added in the next couple of days, as our dec. event is going to be moved to a FRIDAY to celebrate CC’s birthday at a special (free) party.

Oh, to all you ubuntu dev summit goers at google this week, this WED, please come to the city for this event and lets have drinks and talk shop!

I think this will be a good event as well to give out free shirts to people who take footage, video, record audio of the event. Hold me to my word!

Unconventional Non-Profit Fundraising (casestudy: Creative Commons)

Published by
jon
at November 4, 2006 in Notes. 1 Comment

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?

New CC Video + Click on the ad at the end to help CC!

Published by
jon
at November 2, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 2 Comments

So, Creative Commons launched the new animation (which I debuted in Toronto and at the Berkeley Museum presentations I gave last week).

Thus, I’m connecting up with the sneakmove post and Linksvayer’s post (which I finally looked up what gondwana is…)

This is an attempt to see how viral marketing can work for CC, since Revver.com is donating all proceeds to the nonprofit, Creative Commons, rather than taking 50%.

Mike writes good, so I’m wholesale quoting him and giving him credit here:

has begun its annual fall fundraiser. Donate if you can or buy a t-shirt in support of your favorite licensethe public domain.

If you’re completely clueless about restrictive copyright and the net, you’re probably in the wrong place. Before you scurry off, watch Get Creative, which introduced Creative Commons nearly four years ago and provides some of the background story.

Otherwise, check out the brand new Wanna Work Together?, which explains Creative Commons more succinctly and features music by , who has the awesomest home page ever.

is forgoing its usual fifty percent take on ad clickthroughs for these videos through the end of the year (there’s a static ad at the end of each video).

Please contribute and spread these videos to help ensure a future with plenty of freedom lunches for all.

I currently work for Creative Commons, but heed this blog’s current tagline: My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication.

UPDATE: Please help digg this.

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