On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Crowdfunding is on the rise, and tags in this field are important because once you fund a project about #tag you get recommendations for more #tag projects. Maybe we could partner with Creative Commons and friends to request Kickstarter and the other platforms to include a #freeknowledge tag, or a similar alternative (this example could have also been #public-domain)? Or maybe someone is already working on this?
This is a wonderful idea. There is an occasionally-active hashtag already, #FundFreeCulture, but it would be a lot more useful if it had support from Creative Commons and other organizations and the people asking for funding started using such a tag proactively.
See also the FOSsil Bank updates (run by Chris Sakkas, cc'd, who started that hashtag) which has intermittent posts about free culture crowdfunding campaigns: https://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/category/round-ups/fossil-bank-updates/
-Sage