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Update #6: Finally, finally the book is in PROOF!
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Posted on December 19
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Update #5: Final push! $253 and a week to go!
Hello everybody!
We're basically there - just over 10% of the funds left to raise, and about a week left. We need a little push to get us over the edge, and we'll be there.
The blogathon is finally coming together: we've got enough posts that it's actually a substantial showcase of the work in the book, and the kinds of conversations that I'm hoping to come out of the project. It's slow, thoughtful stuff but that's the kind of approach that we want for the future, isn't it? Reflective, not simply reflexive.
http://bit.ly/thefwdblogs here's a list of the posts so far.
Please do what you can to publicize the final push. We still basically have to raise $50 a day which is a substantial donation, or several small ones, so please send the link out to your networks, consider making a post on the blogathon, or talk/tweet about the project.
We'll get there!
I've written a little more about the philosophy and backstory to the project here: http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/getting-the-future-we-deserve-1911
Vinay
Update #4: 50 days in: 75% of the way there on money, 25% on submissions
Hello, everybody! This is an update for the authors and supporters of The Future We Deserve.
The book is going very well.
- We've got 70% - $1400 - of the $2000 we need to do the book. We need to raise $600 in two weeks to liberate the $1400 already donated, so please encourage people to help us!
- We have 71 authors signed up, some doing more than one piece. We could use a fair number of additional authors, but I'm sure people will keep showing up!
- About 1/4 of the material is in, 26 pieces so far and the pieces are inspiring and powerful.
The "first deadline" is September 15th - a month from now - and October 1st is the hard deadline for the book.
If you are contributing to the book, please write soon! I'll be sending out periodic reminders. If you can, please get your material in early so that we can really get the conversations about the book going as the process unfolds. 26 pieces so far is a great start, but it would be great to have half the book in place by the end of this month!
The blogathon is going a little slowly:
- Vinay Gupta on Julia Macintosh's A Future Without Childhood
- Antonio Dias on James Hester's Of Arms and the Man
- Cat Lupton on Antonio Dias' On The Future We Deserve...
So if you have time time, please pick a piece from the pieces submitted so far, run it on your blog, and add your thoughts on the piece. It's a really good way to showcase the book and the ideas in it. I hope you will find the time!
We're well on track, well done, and thank you for all of your help!
Update #3: The Future We Deserve has *well* passed the half way point - and now the Blogathon
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Posted on August 9, 2010
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Update #2: Hello my dears!
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Posted on August 3, 2010
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on August 31, 2010.
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Vinay Gupta has worked with World Changing, the Rocky Mountain Institute, and is the creator of the Hexayurt Project, an open source emergency shelter.
Noah Raford is a specialist in large scale participatory futures.
