CNUK plan
This is an outline of a plan for CNUK, written at the start of the
project in 2008. This does not refer to the previous CNUK Media
Foundation, or the resulting company, FooCorp.
- free culture defined as creativity/art that carries four freedoms of software.
- cnuk projects need sources
- source for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it (borrowed from GPLv3)
- Who will host the sources?
- CNUK
- Internet Archive
- Universities
- Museums of the future
- What if the piece is the source? ie. Photograph, or monoaural sound recording?
- Then the piece must be provided in the uncompressed original format. Transcoding is fine as long as a source is also available.
- cnuk projects need creatives
- Creative people need an audience.
- By aligning their work with CNUK, ie. by "donating" it to CNUK, the artist joins a community.
- CNUK will provide virtual museum/gallery/cinema/concert services
- Artist can link to CNUK.
- Because the work is digital, the artist retains their copyright, they are mearly licensing it in a free way.
- cnuk projects need curators
- Technical and non-technical people from all over the world.
- Artists can easily add new works to a holding area
- Curators verify the work for license, source, etc.
- Artists upload the full sources
- Curator displays the work.
- cnuk projects need caretakers
- People to keep the museum tidy and clean and safe
- Mixture of sysadmins and webmasters
- Work with donated services, servers, etc.
- Aim for redundancy, uk.cnuk.org, us.cnuk.org, etc.
- cnuk projects needs spokespersons
- People who can spread the good word
- Mailing lists
- Forums
- Blogs
- IRC
- Conferences
- cnuk projects need an identity
- Work with creative people to give CNUK a brand
- Work with existing projects to promote CNUK
Last modified: Tue Sep 23 03:46:01 BST 2008