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Wed, 12/09/2009 - 14:19 — Spiral Architect

In the keel water of the Google Wave fiasco it is becoming clear that popular co-writing service etherpad.com will be opensourced before it is terminated. Good news indeed, on that day we should have a great candidate for a collaborative manuscript editor to integrate seamlessly with ThePactProject.

My presentation about crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in movie making

Thu, 11/26/2009 - 16:33 — AndersSjoman

On Tuesday I gave a presentation at the Stockholm Film Festival about crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in the movie industry, exemplifying - of course - with ThePactProject and everything we try to do. 

You can view my presentation slides here - they give you an idea of how far in our process we've come.

 

Anders Sjöman On Crowdsourcing In Film Making At Stockholm Filmfestival
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Great inspiration from HyperIsland-students

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 16:36 — AndersSjoman

As we're working to put our new design into place, a huge thanks to the talented people at Hyper Island for ideas and suggestions.

A particularly inspirational suggestion for site design came from Linda Karlsson, Paula Kreuger, Robert Lindgren, Alexander Hederby, and Lisen Lindberg.

Check out their great ideas, summarized in a proposed home page design, here: http://www.paulakreuger.com/thepact/sketch.html. 

- Anders

Sketches for new site design

Fri, 11/06/2009 - 21:29 — AndersSjoman

We've got a great idea and a solid site platform. But we don't have an easy-to-understand website.

So we've been working last weeks on a new site design. 

Tobias Brandt and Patrik Åkerman von Knorring, UI- and design wizards, joined the core crew (and I will link to their Pact-pages soon so you can see who they are) and have brought a fresh perspective to the site.

And they've come up with these suggestions for a new site design. Below is our idea for a new home page (and you can see the same page as a static mockup here. )

 

New design - home page

And a content page will look like below - or see the static mockup page here.

 

New design - content page

 

As we start to implement the new design, we'd love your input as always.

So please share what you think about the proposed design! Improvement? Too cluttered? Just type away in the comment fields below!

 

Pact Alert!

Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:50 — Spiral Architect

I've set up an rss feed over at Google Alerts that enables you to subscribe in near real time to a flow of articles about ThePactProject as they are indexed by Google's bots. This is a good way of monitoring whatever mentions we get elsewhere on the web.

Just add this link to you'r rss reader, or employ Google Alerts for all your purposes–it's availble by email as well.

(Note: Currently it contains only stuff from our own site, I've since added a filter to exclude that.)

Power to the Pixel!

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 15:03 — Per

Next week I'm off to Power to the Pixel's, "Cross Media Forum" in London. PTTP seems to be a very nice organization, they write themselves on their homepage: !--break-->

 "Power to the Pixel is a company dedicated to supporting film and the wider media in its transition to a digital age with a passion for connecting creative talent to audiences. All its cross-media services are dedicated to a core idea that success is driven by knowledge – most critically of how to work in a rapidly-evolving, customer-driven international market."

 

 Right up The Pact's alley!

 

The program for the first day is really interesting and will most probably give a lot of inspiration and thoughts from smart people regarding open source and possible business solutions. 

The second day hosts a pitching contest, The Pixel Pitch. There we should see how other intelligent projects have been set up, and we might rip off (be inspired by) some ideas, true to the Open Source-spirit! :) I'll be alert with pen, pad and camera!


Oh, I haven't written anything about what happened at Haugesund. I'm sorry about that. But it was good. I met more Canadians than I thought, and some of them might be helpful further on. Will get back to that when I pick up those thoughts again.

 

 

 

no time but...fun

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 10:11 — Henrik

Hey everyone, right now we are busy redesigning our site, but unfortunately it coincides with a lot of work on other fronts, other projects that need attention. In my slightly chaotic life right now I can't really find the time to make a substantial blog post. I like it but I'm slow at writing for the blog. Next week I'll have more time for you, my favorite project, I promise. I have two more small clips lined up with interviews of schizophrenics, further demonstrating the thin line between psychosis and (belief to be) possession. 

Meantime just had to drop in to give you the latest and coolest in Crowdmarketing -

 

 

Big kiss H

Update on Demonic Rules

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 20:15 — Henrik

Work on the demonic rulebook is coming along nicely. One thing I think we need to decide is whether there is a Hell or not, I mean I love talk about the Beast and Satan and such but also unspecified evil like in Stephen Kings books. What do y'all think of the existing hierarchies ? such as  this or this?

 

Bigge suggested a motivation of the Demon, why it wants to cross over to our world. It's a good point, it must be clear what will happen if the demon succeeds or not. Good point Henning to mix it all up with free will haha. It'll be messy but exciting. Maybe even more rewarding for the demon to overtake a person with a strong mind of his own. (of course I think you're crazy, that's why we're here, sane people watches telly or something)

To sum it up so far:
We need a timeconstraint, starconstellations etc, otherwise the demon can try everyday and that'd be boring.
What does the demon want and what effects will it have for us humans? (started thinking about possession just as a foothold, without it the demon can't  use powers in our world, which brings us back to the question what does it want and what powers does it have)

Mrs Liden suggested a BBC-series "Strange" which sounded really interesting. Anyone know where to get a hold of it?

 

Thanks for comments, happy to have you all here. Don't forget to tell us what you'd like to see on the site, what works and not. A facelift is underway and your suggestion appreciated.

Love H

 

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