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[quote]Originally posted by shadow boxer:
[b]Ok Firstones, listen up.
The chief rabble rouser has the floor.... me !
We have a problem.
FO is slowing dying a death of attrition. Sanfam, our long suffering leader by default is getting ready to assault College and become a 'real' student it seems, which leaves him with little time. He may well be leaving us much like Drazi did.
That leaves very little holding this place together, this side of the Modsquads anyways.
Sanfam has also been our philanthrophic benefactor, coughing up ONE HUNDRED BUCKS A MONTH to keep Firstones alive. Striker has also been a fantastic landlord not hitting us with the full 'rent' all the time, rather going into debt for us.
We cannot continue as we are.
We need some form of income and we need to get offically organised.
I hate kowtowing to the world of money as much as the rest of you. I would love Firstones to really remain just a loose association of very like minded souls, but... Firstones as an enitity 'has to eat'. To handle money we have to be a registered organisation.
Sanfam came to me and told me I was an ideas man, someone to stir the rank and file and try and get something going. I'm very happy to do so, but as I said to him,
"I aint doin SHIT till I have the support of basically all and sundry."
From there I'm confident I can breathe some new life into FO, give it back its vibrancy, purpose and power.
I will do everything in my power to make FO the place to be for Sci-fi fans in general. It's possible. I know that for a fact.
What I have to have first up is a US citizen who can legally register Firstones as a non profit organisation. We have to have that legal infrastructure to make what I have in mind work. This "Firstones" association will be essentially a very close affiliate, a 'post box' with which we can interact with banks and institutions which require this kind of thing.
This individual, whomever they are must be one of the concientious, level headed practical secretary type, male or female, it matters not.
I have no idea of the legal requirements for a non profit org are in the states is but it MUST be secured somehow if FO is to process an income which... we absolutely must have to survive.
~~~~~
part 2 - making enough to live on as an organisation.
The best way to do so is to produce changing content which every B5 and Sci fi fan can relate to and enjoy.
Firstones are talented people, inordinately skilled in some cases, we have some absolutely priceless human resources which we could use to make FO prosper and grow.
How do we do that ?
We publish a Webcomic, three times a week. We write a five year story Arc in the vein of the great maker and keep people coming back... time and time again. We generate traffic which gives us more muscle for banner ads ( tastefully applied ). We whore all the terrific talent we have to make some truly new and powerful B5 content.
Remember that even George Lucas is now scared of fanboy work in his Universe, its THAT good. He shut down an Australian fan based movie on account of it doing too well.
I doubt that we will get quite that big, but it just goes to show a dedicated bunch of fans can make miracles. Look at Star Trek !
Who knows, through interaction with Warner Bros, Firstones may garner enough respect to be instumental in resurecting B5 and perhaps ITF as well. Who knows, if we aim high and pour in the blood sweat and tears we may just yet do magickal things.
That's the long view.
Back to the here and now.
I've been given free rein to try and whup some arses into this project.. so whip I will.. along with 'putting in' myself.
The Web comic crew :
One director : me ( and if you want the job, by all means take it )
One writer : volunteers please, someone to work with me on building a rocking storyline.
Three CGI Artists : volunteers please
These people build the,, renders of ships and scenes.
Three Character artists : volunteers please
these people do the character art, the bits where CGI will not be able to sufficently deliver, we cannot expect the CGI guys to spend ages trying to build effective face and character studies. Good old fashioned linework and colour will suffice if we find the artists we need.
Two 'Key grips' : volunteers please
Gophers, shite kickers, resource gatherers, personal assistants etc etc etc, these people will be instrumental to sucsess, without these people... I quit.
One Lore Keeper : volunteer please
One must keep within the lines drawn by the great maker, we need someone who knows B5 canon backwards and can be relied on to answer emails whenever about what size underwear G'kar wears in episode 3445274 etc etc etc etc. We have to do this very professionally or we dont do it at all.
~~~
I plan to have a month of 'free to air' access to the webcomic, the first job of the greater FO community will be to make sure there is a huge crowd on 'opening night' so to speak. After the first month or perhaps two, the comic moves into 'paydirt territory'. We charge for our hard work, a nominal fee to have access to the continuing story. I was thinking in the vicinity of two bucks a month. Thats only fifty paid subscribers and we have covered our most basic need, survival as an entity.
We will of course have to talk sweetly to Warner Bros and make sure we have our ducks in a row with them when we go public with the comic.
Of course the webcomic is linked directly back to Firstones, a good way of securing new members. With the comic taking care of our fiscal needs we can continue to be the cool web community we have always been.
thoughts, input, volunteers please !
and spread the word 'over the border' in Mod land please.
Lets do it ![/b][/quote]
[This message has been edited by Alpha-1 (edited 06-30-2002).]
[quote]Originally posted by shadow boxer:
[b]Ok Firstones, listen up.
The chief rabble rouser has the floor.... me !
We have a problem.
FO is slowing dying a death of attrition. Sanfam, our long suffering leader by default is getting ready to assault College and become a 'real' student it seems, which leaves him with little time. He may well be leaving us much like Drazi did.
That leaves very little holding this place together, this side of the Modsquads anyways.
Sanfam has also been our philanthrophic benefactor, coughing up ONE HUNDRED BUCKS A MONTH to keep Firstones alive. Striker has also been a fantastic landlord not hitting us with the full 'rent' all the time, rather going into debt for us.
We cannot continue as we are.
We need some form of income and we need to get offically organised.
I hate kowtowing to the world of money as much as the rest of you. I would love Firstones to really remain just a loose association of very like minded souls, but... Firstones as an enitity 'has to eat'. To handle money we have to be a registered organisation.
Sanfam came to me and told me I was an ideas man, someone to stir the rank and file and try and get something going. I'm very happy to do so, but as I said to him,
"I aint doin SHIT till I have the support of basically all and sundry."
From there I'm confident I can breathe some new life into FO, give it back its vibrancy, purpose and power.
I will do everything in my power to make FO the place to be for Sci-fi fans in general. It's possible. I know that for a fact.
What I have to have first up is a US citizen who can legally register Firstones as a non profit organisation. We have to have that legal infrastructure to make what I have in mind work. This "Firstones" association will be essentially a very close affiliate, a 'post box' with which we can interact with banks and institutions which require this kind of thing.
This individual, whomever they are must be one of the concientious, level headed practical secretary type, male or female, it matters not.
I have no idea of the legal requirements for a non profit org are in the states is but it MUST be secured somehow if FO is to process an income which... we absolutely must have to survive.
~~~~~
part 2 - making enough to live on as an organisation.
The best way to do so is to produce changing content which every B5 and Sci fi fan can relate to and enjoy.
Firstones are talented people, inordinately skilled in some cases, we have some absolutely priceless human resources which we could use to make FO prosper and grow.
How do we do that ?
We publish a Webcomic, three times a week. We write a five year story Arc in the vein of the great maker and keep people coming back... time and time again. We generate traffic which gives us more muscle for banner ads ( tastefully applied ). We whore all the terrific talent we have to make some truly new and powerful B5 content.
Remember that even George Lucas is now scared of fanboy work in his Universe, its THAT good. He shut down an Australian fan based movie on account of it doing too well.
I doubt that we will get quite that big, but it just goes to show a dedicated bunch of fans can make miracles. Look at Star Trek !
Who knows, through interaction with Warner Bros, Firstones may garner enough respect to be instumental in resurecting B5 and perhaps ITF as well. Who knows, if we aim high and pour in the blood sweat and tears we may just yet do magickal things.
That's the long view.
Back to the here and now.
I've been given free rein to try and whup some arses into this project.. so whip I will.. along with 'putting in' myself.
The Web comic crew :
One director : me ( and if you want the job, by all means take it )
One writer : volunteers please, someone to work with me on building a rocking storyline.
Three CGI Artists : volunteers please
These people build the,, renders of ships and scenes.
Three Character artists : volunteers please
these people do the character art, the bits where CGI will not be able to sufficently deliver, we cannot expect the CGI guys to spend ages trying to build effective face and character studies. Good old fashioned linework and colour will suffice if we find the artists we need.
Two 'Key grips' : volunteers please
Gophers, shite kickers, resource gatherers, personal assistants etc etc etc, these people will be instrumental to sucsess, without these people... I quit.
One Lore Keeper : volunteer please
One must keep within the lines drawn by the great maker, we need someone who knows B5 canon backwards and can be relied on to answer emails whenever about what size underwear G'kar wears in episode 3445274 etc etc etc etc. We have to do this very professionally or we dont do it at all.
~~~
I plan to have a month of 'free to air' access to the webcomic, the first job of the greater FO community will be to make sure there is a huge crowd on 'opening night' so to speak. After the first month or perhaps two, the comic moves into 'paydirt territory'. We charge for our hard work, a nominal fee to have access to the continuing story. I was thinking in the vicinity of two bucks a month. Thats only fifty paid subscribers and we have covered our most basic need, survival as an entity.
We will of course have to talk sweetly to Warner Bros and make sure we have our ducks in a row with them when we go public with the comic.
Of course the webcomic is linked directly back to Firstones, a good way of securing new members. With the comic taking care of our fiscal needs we can continue to be the cool web community we have always been.
thoughts, input, volunteers please !
and spread the word 'over the border' in Mod land please.
Lets do it ![/b][/quote]
[This message has been edited by Alpha-1 (edited 06-30-2002).]
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