5th March 2012, 02:02 PM
Welsh Andy – excellent idea! 150 words on this and you might just have a winner!
P Prentice: Yes, we would love to publish the project design – to our minds, we are entering into a social contract, and the project design is the foundation of what we promise to deliver. There are many other stakeholders involved in this who will have to approve such a move, but believe me this principle sits squarely with our crowdfunding, crowdsourcing philosophy – so watch this space (we are only 5 days old!).
BillyPilgrim: thanks for the promise of support! This is the best way to check us out and really judge how robust our model actually is: sign up and become part of the DigVentures community, and allow your voice to help shape what we are trying to achieve. The more money we raise – the more archaeology we dig, and the more work we can do to ensure that Flag Fen Lives.
There will be plenty of free information content going out on our latest news section, and also some really great entertainment based content in our site hut. It won’t be a pay wall as such, but if people are interested enough to want to know what goes on behind the scenes, we hope they will also be good enough to support the project financially too (that one’s borrowed straight from Mortimer Wheeler!).
Thanks all for you’re comments so far – I’ll be blogging a piece on this over at diggingthedirt soon, and Lisa is on the panel this evening at the Institute of Archaeology’s 75th anniversary debate – called, timely enough, ‘Presenting the Past.’
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calenda...s/20120305
If anyone’s about and wants to continue the discussion tonight: there’s a pub in our future! Over and out for now – and thanks again to everyone supporting us (keep spreading the word and keep debating the issues!).
All the best,
Diggingthedirt
http://digventures.com/
http://www.sponsume.com/project/digventu...en-lives-1
P Prentice: Yes, we would love to publish the project design – to our minds, we are entering into a social contract, and the project design is the foundation of what we promise to deliver. There are many other stakeholders involved in this who will have to approve such a move, but believe me this principle sits squarely with our crowdfunding, crowdsourcing philosophy – so watch this space (we are only 5 days old!).
BillyPilgrim: thanks for the promise of support! This is the best way to check us out and really judge how robust our model actually is: sign up and become part of the DigVentures community, and allow your voice to help shape what we are trying to achieve. The more money we raise – the more archaeology we dig, and the more work we can do to ensure that Flag Fen Lives.
There will be plenty of free information content going out on our latest news section, and also some really great entertainment based content in our site hut. It won’t be a pay wall as such, but if people are interested enough to want to know what goes on behind the scenes, we hope they will also be good enough to support the project financially too (that one’s borrowed straight from Mortimer Wheeler!).
Thanks all for you’re comments so far – I’ll be blogging a piece on this over at diggingthedirt soon, and Lisa is on the panel this evening at the Institute of Archaeology’s 75th anniversary debate – called, timely enough, ‘Presenting the Past.’
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calenda...s/20120305
If anyone’s about and wants to continue the discussion tonight: there’s a pub in our future! Over and out for now – and thanks again to everyone supporting us (keep spreading the word and keep debating the issues!).
All the best,
Diggingthedirt
http://digventures.com/
http://www.sponsume.com/project/digventu...en-lives-1