rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

I tried to re-design my site as fast as possible in the styles surrounding me here in Guangzhou. (note Wikipedia is back on for English today, still blocked for Chinese).

I also nuked the freelance section of the site and integrated the content into projects. Who am I kidding that advertising for freelance gigs, donations, and other myths actually works in keeping projects flowing and me not dying. I’m appalled at how little I’ve done on my own-driven projects since I started working at CC some 2.5 years ago. What these projects need is good ole fashioned sustain-o-bility (and I’m not talking about that green-style-over-used-sf-bubble sustainability - yes its different!).

Speaking of which, I’m beginning my look for 2 people to help me out on all my non-CC related projects. I need to hire up a sysadmin and some type of general assistant. I can’t take it anymore! The level of development and sustain-o-bility has hit the wall on maintaining some 6+ websites, other open source projects, all while trying to keep pushing on new things. I’m particularly looking for these people in China before Lu and I head back to San Francisco in mid-May to our beta base (beta as in all web projects are beta in sf). Shoot me an email if you are interested in cracking on some big things poppin.

Sorry for the pink and the bright yellow! Its fashion-o-ble.

I would go a step further than Rudd-o’s statement that Open Source’s weakness is lack of marketing and PR by stating that this is a problem for the superset of Free Culture.

I have spent much time trying to hone these skills through working on Inkscape, Open Clip Art Library and now at Creative Commons I totally agree with Rudd-o and feel that once Free Culture (including Free Content, Open Content, Free Software and Open Source Software) figure this out, or rather more people like myself and Rudd-o promote this heavier and provide solutions, Free Culture will master marketing and PR.

We already have proof that this type of “Spread” project like Spread Firefox works majorly well…so how do we duplicate this?

This reminds me that I need to put the big push back on for Spread FreeCulture (which will hopefully lead this charge).

Also, I would like to address how I create projects like Spread Free Culture. I have been explaining this a lot lately. Here is my strategy:

• First do massive research on what already exists and put this on a wiki (unless a wiki page on this exists somewhere else).
• Then, if a project already exists which does what you want, then merge your efforts in with this (merging is a HIGH PRIORITY TO CONSOLIDATE RESOURCES)
• Only if a project does not exist, then start fleshing out your project online on a wiki and make a few public announcements about this developing project to get other ideas.
• After this, then begin to implement what you and others have planned on that wiki.

Got at b3co.com!

http://mces.blogspot.com/2006/08/metro-lines-i-have-used.html