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