Several Points of Business

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

1. Sorry for my silence here! I've been away at a 9-day fair that simply ate my time. When I last checked, we were batting around domain names for a crowdfunding/cyber-funded creativity site. I have offered hosting, which has php/mySql capabilities, and I can (fairly) easily install a forum and/or wiki for our use. I will donate the first year of registration on a domain name, and put up a donation button for further registration as needed.

Names we were considering (that were available at the time and *probably* still are...):

creativecrowdfunding.com
crowdfundingcreatively.com
crowdfundedcreatives.com

What do you like? Other alternatives?

2. Torn World, my own crowdfunding project has just closed entries for its first contest, and opened its second for submissions! You can read more details here, and learn more about joining as a contributor here.

3. EMG-Zine is accepting fiction and artwork on the theme of "Faery Court" until Sept 1 for our October issue. Reprints are welcome. Full guidelines are here! While you're there, enjoy our 44th issue, on the theme of "Wizards!"

4. Will any of you creatives be at Dragon*Con this year? I will be in exhibitor's booth 1240!

Comments

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

We've each missed each other's backposts. I'd mentioned here once or twice, but, I'd done a few posts to my journal too. I'd been on vacation recently & had some busy periods where I caught up on friends & skipped communities. Between the two... ::shrugs::

I'd been doing reading into *how* do forums & whatnot... and I'd picked up Adobe Dreamweaver to work on the front end of things & was working on relearning how to use it. So... I don't have anything explicit to throw at you immediately, but, I've some ideas. A few people highly recommended Drupal (http://drupal.org/), but, I am in way over my head there. Recently, a friend offered to teach me as well.

I still like the idea of a "creative" name that inspires... with cyberfunded imbedded into all the metadata, FAQ, etc. to make sure it turns up. I don't like the idea of trying to own the term for what we're doing (from a copyright/trademark standpoint)... and if we don't have a distinctive name for the site/larger project, if this catches fire we run the risk of being in a sea of things that are all "Cyberfunded something or other"s.

I'll also go in on the site costs with you.

[zeeth_kyrah]

When someone searches, they'll look first for a word ending in -ing. Thus, "crowdfunding" is a better search term than "crowdfunded". But we can use both forms to good effect.