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Ken Yarmosh, Jul 2006

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AndyDoan

Member since: Jul 18, 2006
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Here's a report about the progress that has been made on Fundable Films out the view of the Cambrian House community.

Mad Viking

We've assembled a small group of dedicated individuals both from in and out of the CH community.

Mad Viking

We've debated the feature list and next steps our Google Discussion group. This group is open to all CH community members, if you want to join please drop me a line andy@fundablefilms.com

Mad Viking

We've created a wiki and added a number of documents and posts to it detailing the proposed specs of the Fundable Films beta test.

Mad Viking

We've debated a name change. To date it seems as though we've settled on calling it either Fundable Films or Film Funder (don't you love journeys that take you in a complete circle?)

Mad Viking

We've downloaded the Robinhoodfund.com source and started to rip useful features from it's code base to integrate into ours.

So far we have been using Google Groups for discussions about the project. The reason I decided to do this initially is because I wanted to quickly integrate people from outside of CH and bring them into the collaboration efforts. Also Google Groups makes it very easy to post and comment on discussion threads as you can do it from any email client (perhaps this is a feature request for CH?).

Since the creation of the wiki I have now seen a few errors in my decision. For one my ability to canvass the CH community for input is restricted to those who have opted into the Google Group (did I mention that it's open to everyone?). This somewhat limits the the community interaction.

The second problem is recruitment. How can people become engaged in the project if they don't know what's going on with it? To the casual member FF may appear dead in the water. Part of the power of crowd sourcing is in getting as many people involved as possible. So far the password protected discussion group and the hidden wiki haven't helped in this matter.

Unfortunately the active members of my little group seem fully entrenched within the Google Group structure and I don't think I can talk them out of using that tool set. So in order to remedy the problems that I have listed above I will be making daily/weekly/monthly reports to the CH community about FF progress. This will be done in the hopes of engaging CH members who might have joined after the Golden Hammer tournament and to refreshing the minds of the CH vets. It's the least I can do for the community who made Film Funder possible in the first place!

Ale