Crowdfunding: Connecting Creators and Patrons

>>There is another not-so-obvious benefit in a Drupal site (that being the content management system MeiLin uses): there are a bunch of us, many of us quite busy people, who are very familiar with it, know how to use it <<

That was actually one of my leading points: we need a code system that is popular, so more than one person can handle it if necessary.

>> once it gets going, will tweet the heck out of it.<<

That would be very helpful. So would a hashtag, maybe #crowdfundinghub or the like.

>>A Facebook page someone would have to take charge of<<

I checked that. A FB page requires an "official representative" of an organization to start it. A FB group can be started by anyone. I think this is a conversation of its own, which to have and what for.

>> In fact if you make that a rule, you have an obvious source of judges for a juried award: <<

Discussion for a judged award is here:
http://community.livejournal.com/crowdfunding/175923.html

>>Re the voting method, at the risk of sounding like I'm piling on, I think it's absolutely mandatory that it be changed.<<

MeiLin says Drupal comes with a polling feature. If the crowdfunding hub site manifests, then we can take a look at how its polling feature works, hopefully an improvement over the LJ polling feature.

>>To make voted awards a success we have to encourage rather than discourage voting, and that means making it easy and anonymous.<<

Easy, yes. Completely anonymous, no, because then there would be no way to keep people from voting multiple times. We could make the voter identity visible only to people managing the awards, though.

>>I think anonymous nomination, however, should be impossible, since even being nominated is an honour and a distinction (I plan to keep my nominee badge visible) and I suspect a person or two nominated themselves.<<

I agree. We need to know where the nominations are coming from. Yes, we had a very few people nominate themselves; we disqualified those nominations and reminded people that you can't nominate or vote for yourself in the R&B.

I hope that all the nominees will keep their badges! It shows that somebody really likes your stuff.

>>I think the first R&Bs were a resounding success. <<

I'm pleased too. I expected to have room for growth. I'm really enthused by how much happened just this first year!

>>I congratulate and thank Ysabet for getting the ball rolling, as well as everyone else who contributed in some way, and anticipate a great future for the awards.<<

*bow, flourish* Thank you. I had a lot of great help from people, and we should have more folks for future tasks now that we have a more detailed idea of what we need.