Got my 3rd rejection from #NLNet. 🎉

The first was around 2012 for an #openvideo distribution tool built on the (then) excellent Miro Player. The 2nd in 2023 was to improve #CiviCRM's user interface. We did it anyway :D

This one was to write a comprehensive free guide + research into funding content and platforms on the Fediverse, following on from our book on film funding (11,000+ copies sold).

It's kinda exhausting that they've such a long application form for stage 1, this one took a week.

Got my 3rd rejection from #NLNet. 🎉

The first was around 2012 for an #openvideo distribution tool built on the (then) excellent Miro Player. The 2nd in 2023 was to improve #CiviCRM's user interface. We did it anyway :D

This one was to write a comprehensive free guide + research into funding content and platforms on the Fediverse, following on from our book on film funding (11,000+ copies sold).

It's kinda exhausting that they've such a long application form for stage 1, this one took a week.

It points to declarative rights languages like ODRL & the Aaron Swartz-shaped CCRel instead of DRM. Micropayments & decentralised subscriptions in place of competing walled gardens with incompatible players.

Anyway this kinda sums up 25ys of focus for Netribution on the question ‘how can the web help indie creators keep their independence and make a living?’ After the #OpenVideo Movement in the late 00s, this stalled until AP & PeerTube. Then we got Interledger funding. Still a long way to go…