I don't have an issue with posting of samples like this since the content is useful, but the title and preview images should be descriptive of the actual posted content.
I use gandi.net for OGA's domain registration. They cost a bit more than godaddy, but it's worth an extra $7/year to me not to have to wade through tons of upsell crap to get to my actual domain options.
This is a bug that I feel like I've fixed before somewhere else on the site. For now, the work around is just to use zip or 7z. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@pixel32: I don't know whether it's realistic or not, but if you're right, then you have nothing to worry about. The kickstarter will fail, and things will continue on exactly as they are, and I won't be able to ruin OGA by working on it for a living.
That being said, perhaps you could get into specifics about what part of the plan you feel would ruin OGA, and what part of the plan would are bad for artists?
Also, because it needs to be said: My financial prospects as a full time drupal developer would be significantly higher than what I'm likely to make running OGA. All I want from this is to make a reasonable living making the site better for everyone, including artists, game developers, and whoever else. I most certainly don't want to ruin it. Frankly, if I wanted to get rich, I wouldn't be running this site at all, let alone trying to do it for a living.
Added a "challenges" section to the kickstarter page:
Challenges
Most of the goals listed here are relatively low-risk -- that is, if this project is successfully funded, the chance of the stated goals being completed is very high.
The biggest challenge isn't so much meeting the Kickstarter goals as establishing a steady income once those goals are completed. There are several income streams we can pursue in the near future.
The first potential income stream is through supporter accounts (see above for a description). We get about 100,000 unique visitors per month. If even a tenth of one percent of those users are willing to pay $5 monthly for supporter account access, then that would cover continued development on its own. However, the number of people actually willing to pay a subscription fee can be unpredictable at best, so I can't depend on this alone.
Advertising is another possible income stream. Optimally, I would like to sell ad space on the front page directly to artists and software developers so they can get exposure for their projects and portfolios. Web advertising can be difficult to break into, and while the value of the ad space on OGA might be technically enough to support the site on its own, it can be hard at times to find people who want to pay for ads without going through an web advertising agency (which has its own problems, such as incomplete control over what ads show up, and a middleman taking a significant cut of the ad revenue). However, if enough people can be convinced that advertising on OGA would be worthwhile, then it could be a major source of income for the site.
Finally, a custom OGA swag shop that sells shirts, mugs, mouse pads, digital media, and other goodies might be a good way to supplement site income, although it would be unlikely to cover all of our funding needs.
Teach people about the licenses more (sorry for being so non-specific).
Honestly, I need specifics for this. Licenses are a complicated mess, and it's difficult to simplify them.
Auto-create attribution suggestions that include title, author, link to user profile, link to art piece, license(s) name and link to license(s) for easy copying to make it easier to use art legally.
Awesome idea. :)
Make OGA accessible (especially the upload form and the audio section for people without eyesight). For this, it might be possible to get funding from for-handicapped organizations.
It would definitely be nice to do this. I'll look into it.
Properly integrate with twitter, facebook, ideally g+, identi.ca and diaspora "page" feeds.
I need an example of this. Social network integration is definitely a good thing.
@Charlie: I edited this submission along with the other one. The title and preview no longer show media that wasn't uploaded.
Greets!
I don't have an issue with posting of samples like this since the content is useful, but the title and preview images should be descriptive of the actual posted content.
Thanks!
Bart
I use gandi.net for OGA's domain registration. They cost a bit more than godaddy, but it's worth an extra $7/year to me not to have to wade through tons of upsell crap to get to my actual domain options.
Suggest adding: http://opengameart.org/content/minimal-industrial-tiles
This is a bug that I feel like I've fixed before somewhere else on the site. For now, the work around is just to use zip or 7z. Sorry for the inconvenience.
@pixel32: I don't know whether it's realistic or not, but if you're right, then you have nothing to worry about. The kickstarter will fail, and things will continue on exactly as they are, and I won't be able to ruin OGA by working on it for a living.
That being said, perhaps you could get into specifics about what part of the plan you feel would ruin OGA, and what part of the plan would are bad for artists?
Also, because it needs to be said: My financial prospects as a full time drupal developer would be significantly higher than what I'm likely to make running OGA. All I want from this is to make a reasonable living making the site better for everyone, including artists, game developers, and whoever else. I most certainly don't want to ruin it. Frankly, if I wanted to get rich, I wouldn't be running this site at all, let alone trying to do it for a living.
If you made it from scratch with no references, it's fine.
Added a "challenges" section to the kickstarter page:
Challenges
Most of the goals listed here are relatively low-risk -- that is, if this project is successfully funded, the chance of the stated goals being completed is very high.
The biggest challenge isn't so much meeting the Kickstarter goals as establishing a steady income once those goals are completed. There are several income streams we can pursue in the near future.
The first potential income stream is through supporter accounts (see above for a description). We get about 100,000 unique visitors per month. If even a tenth of one percent of those users are willing to pay $5 monthly for supporter account access, then that would cover continued development on its own. However, the number of people actually willing to pay a subscription fee can be unpredictable at best, so I can't depend on this alone.
Advertising is another possible income stream. Optimally, I would like to sell ad space on the front page directly to artists and software developers so they can get exposure for their projects and portfolios. Web advertising can be difficult to break into, and while the value of the ad space on OGA might be technically enough to support the site on its own, it can be hard at times to find people who want to pay for ads without going through an web advertising agency (which has its own problems, such as incomplete control over what ads show up, and a middleman taking a significant cut of the ad revenue). However, if enough people can be convinced that advertising on OGA would be worthwhile, then it could be a major source of income for the site.
Finally, a custom OGA swag shop that sells shirts, mugs, mouse pads, digital media, and other goodies might be a good way to supplement site income, although it would be unlikely to cover all of our funding needs.
Teach people about the licenses more (sorry for being so non-specific).
Honestly, I need specifics for this. Licenses are a complicated mess, and it's difficult to simplify them.
Auto-create attribution suggestions that include title, author, link to user profile, link to art piece, license(s) name and link to license(s) for easy copying to make it easier to use art legally.
Awesome idea. :)
Make OGA accessible (especially the upload form and the audio section for people without eyesight). For this, it might be possible to get funding from for-handicapped organizations.
It would definitely be nice to do this. I'll look into it.
Properly integrate with twitter, facebook, ideally g+, identi.ca and diaspora "page" feeds.
I need an example of this. Social network integration is definitely a good thing.
Would it be possible to make contests like LPC almost entirely community run?
It might be, provided you could get sufficient participation.
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