It's going to be really hard for people not to project what *they* would do. :)
I believe (because I am one of them!) that there are a lot of people who would like to have a 'greater good project' that they contribute to within reasonable limits of their available time/resources, and possibly the only thing that's stopping something fantastic happening is the right coordinator/lead/champion.
For example, within my limited imagination, I'd love to be part of something that is: : non-profit (insomuch as profit is a dirty word to me) : generates some form of financial &/or bartered (why not) income. : pays all contributors fairly and openly - backend or frontend : I'd love a bit of William Morris type ethos (beauty or function) :) : has some sort of non-overwhelming social element e.g. meetups or something
This has a danger of sounding like Etsy, but I don't get any collective feel-good awesomeness from Etsy, I just get a lot of individual creators desperately trying to get income from things, which is good! But I don't feel like 'WOW I AM PART OF THIS!' when I look there, I just feel mildly happy that it's possible to randomly sprinkle pennies on someone if I feel like it. And if I sprinkle pennies on A, I'm not doing a damned thing for B,c,d,e,f etc. Which is a shame.
(The other problem of course, is that, like, there's a danger you might have some really rubbish stuff contributed, that's taken someone just as long to make as fabulous object X, or maybe no time at all but they've put it up there so hm yeah. More thinking needed.)
But back to the positive and an example: I _could_ contribute *some* effort to such a thing (or to a completely different but equally or more fantastic thing), but I have to be careful joining projects on a freeby basis because I tend to overspend my available time and need someone I trust supervising at the receiving end to say 'stop! that's enough!' so I don't end up feeling resentful &/or poor from time not spent on billable work ;) Someone trustworthy and caring and somewhat organised and project-managery. :) Nobody likes doing things at the last minute, so the more margin/lead time on things the better, so that the odd down-period for _anyone_ involved is never a big problem - tho flip side there's a danger with freeby things that it always gets pushed to tomorrow due to xyz and momentum is lost, so there does need to be some sort of forward driving force...
Ah, right. That billable work. Better stop meandering. Good luck!! :)
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Date: 2017-10-10 07:36 am (UTC)It's going to be really hard for people not to project what *they* would do. :)
I believe (because I am one of them!) that there are a lot of people who would like to have a 'greater good project' that they contribute to within reasonable limits of their available time/resources, and possibly the only thing that's stopping something fantastic happening is the right coordinator/lead/champion.
For example, within my limited imagination, I'd love to be part of something that is:
: non-profit (insomuch as profit is a dirty word to me)
: generates some form of financial &/or bartered (why not) income.
: pays all contributors fairly and openly - backend or frontend
: I'd love a bit of William Morris type ethos (beauty or function) :)
: has some sort of non-overwhelming social element e.g. meetups or something
This has a danger of sounding like Etsy, but I don't get any collective feel-good awesomeness from Etsy, I just get a lot of individual creators desperately trying to get income from things, which is good! But I don't feel like 'WOW I AM PART OF THIS!' when I look there, I just feel mildly happy that it's possible to randomly sprinkle pennies on someone if I feel like it. And if I sprinkle pennies on A, I'm not doing a damned thing for B,c,d,e,f etc. Which is a shame.
(The other problem of course, is that, like, there's a danger you might have some really rubbish stuff contributed, that's taken someone just as long to make as fabulous object X, or maybe no time at all but they've put it up there so hm yeah. More thinking needed.)
But back to the positive and an example: I _could_ contribute *some* effort to such a thing (or to a completely different but equally or more fantastic thing), but I have to be careful joining projects on a freeby basis because I tend to overspend my available time and need someone I trust supervising at the receiving end to say 'stop! that's enough!' so I don't end up feeling resentful &/or poor from time not spent on billable work ;) Someone trustworthy and caring and somewhat organised and project-managery. :) Nobody likes doing things at the last minute, so the more margin/lead time on things the better, so that the odd down-period for _anyone_ involved is never a big problem - tho flip side there's a danger with freeby things that it always gets pushed to tomorrow due to xyz and momentum is lost, so there does need to be some sort of forward driving force...
Ah, right. That billable work. Better stop meandering. Good luck!! :)