Author: Patrice Riemens Date: To: Bricolabs Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] developers and weavers: thoughts on project funding,
sustainability, public rating and the CHEST #2 desaster
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> felipe, i think it is usefull to send to this list the last text we worte
> about susteinability and funding
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> 2014-09-15 16:21 GMT-03:00 Felipe Fonseca <felipefonseca@???>:
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>> Jaromil and all,
>>
>> I'm myself trying again to make sense of these delicate balances
>> (funding/autonomy/sustainability). After a low tide that affected a lot
>> of projects here in Brazil (I believe I have commented in this mailing
>> list
>> before about the changes in the Ministry of Culture), now there are some
>> interesting signs of things getting back on track.
>>
>> The Ministry has called me to advise on public policies for digital
>> culture once again, following up on a project (Redelabs) that started in
>> 2010 and was left to rot from the next year on. They accepted my
>> critical
>> take on the 'creative economy' wave and recommendations for more open
>> and
>> often useless developments. I'm only not too excited about it because we
>> are facing general elections again, and it's hard to be hopeful in such
>> times.
>>
>> Anyway, Jaromil's suggestion of ethnographic research to choose projects
>> may indeed be criticised - but I believe it is really important to
>> establish more nuanced and - why not - ambiguous criteria for selection
>> processes. The trend of evaluating everything in terms of numbers,
>> audience
>> and potential profit has done a lot of damage already and is hardly
>> relevant if one is concerned with the common good.
>>
>> OTOH, sometimes it's easier to pretend we conform to the general
>> discourse
>> but make sure the evaluating board is composed of people with enough
>> ground
>> experience to tell good projects from others.
>>
>> Still looking for solutions here...
>>
>> efe
>>
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