19th April 2012, 08:03 AM
I can't answer for them... and this is based on a knowledge of how these work.
Rather than talk of failure (glass half empty) one should consider success... (glass half full)
This has created money/funding where none existed. therefore people can get involved more than before.
I say this due to my own (small) crowd funding. people paid a tenner a day for the site and this then covered the costs for C14 dating - The more that was provided the better. but I budgeted on a wish for 1500 but an expectation of half that. as it happens we achieved the goal and thus success.
Success and failure are emotive words. and crowdfunding is a new one in the UK... cos we is miserable gits BUT... there are lessons to be learned from this as well.
For my own part.. I kept it small, kept it slim. and built it up - This also meant that the professional archaeologists who worked the 4 days were not paid.. none of us. and the report is an act of love... the funding pays for specialist dating. Sometimes... money is not everything. And a skills bank - giving some free time to the community as a whole - can work as well as crowdfunding. Inventive archaeology never fails. it just learns
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Rather than talk of failure (glass half empty) one should consider success... (glass half full)
This has created money/funding where none existed. therefore people can get involved more than before.
I say this due to my own (small) crowd funding. people paid a tenner a day for the site and this then covered the costs for C14 dating - The more that was provided the better. but I budgeted on a wish for 1500 but an expectation of half that. as it happens we achieved the goal and thus success.
Success and failure are emotive words. and crowdfunding is a new one in the UK... cos we is miserable gits BUT... there are lessons to be learned from this as well.
For my own part.. I kept it small, kept it slim. and built it up - This also meant that the professional archaeologists who worked the 4 days were not paid.. none of us. and the report is an act of love... the funding pays for specialist dating. Sometimes... money is not everything. And a skills bank - giving some free time to the community as a whole - can work as well as crowdfunding. Inventive archaeology never fails. it just learns
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