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Nirvan, about that...now that we're producers and we would love to see this thing getting made, could you give us some idea as to what kind of fund raisers we could do to reach the goal?

For example, would you like some people to go out wearing placards saying "Produce a movie for a buck", or go on street corners videotaping people asking what their perfect moment is and ask for donations, and so on?

Or do I have completely the wrong idea?

Your fundraising ideas are on the mark. That type of grassroots support (and footage) would be really great. The more people that get involved, the stronger the project becomes. As we build grassroots support, we will also attract larger donors. This has started to happed to some degree, and is encouraging.

But overall, I've come to recognize that this project (and website) are still too complicated for the majority of people. There is too much to read and the sign up process is too complex. Also the backend for communicating with everyone that wants to participate more needs to be improved.

I've had a lot of epiphanies to address these issues. I just sent some new site designs to our programmer and should get an idea early next week how long it will take to build and how much it will cost.

Meanwhile, if you all have any questions or ideas, please let me know.

thanks :)

I do have some ideas, yeah. The big one going along with the placard idea...going out to the city center or college grounds or University ground...or somewhere near an Arts Centre, asking for donations. Maybe even going as far as carrying a laptop (w/ wireless connection) to sign up directly on the website.

Maybe make available a .pdf file for printing out and distributing "Certificates of Producer-ship" (something like that)...that way us producers can go out and recruit, maybe.