I find it funny nitpicking on this side of the argument, as Broca’s is of course a hobby, and we have no plan to make money. Indeed, in the T6 profile on CPB last year, I said I wished that corporate types would get out of the game.

OK, so here are a couple of issues. If one has a hobby cast (as I do) and one that is intended to make money (I could certainly say that my lecturecasts are at least partly intended to promote Algoma U, as that is one of the reasons I do it, and that would increase our number of students) am I in a potential conflict? I link to my lectures on the Broca site. I do mention them now and then as well.

On the hobby thing. OK, instead of my cooking, let us go with the example of my model plane making. OK, say I enter one of my planes in a model making competition and win. Is that not getting paid?

I know I nitpick. For that is my thing that I do…

Dave

In your example, your dinner guests are contributing to the evening by bringing a gift (say a bottle of wine) as a gesture. Rarely, if ever, would they bring cash and I’m sure you would feel awkward if they did.

The Other Guy

Hmm, I see the point, yeah I don’t ask for tips say oh when I make model planes (which I don’t do any more but that is beside the point). Then again, I like to cook, we have people over for dinner a lot etc. If someone asks ‘what do you want me to bring’ I usually say ‘you’. Then again, they are free to bring stuff, and most do.

Like I said, i get the poin t though. Food for thought if you will.

DB (and NOT Isabelle, as she is in another room….)

Our thinking is to keep it simple.

There are a million different cases of what can be considered “reasonable expenses” and what a “reasonable charge” is for those expenses. Then you have to consider world currencies (since we want this to be an open community). I mean, for Broca’s Area, expenses could be CDN$10/month, then for Check This Out! it could be US$20/month, for Electric Sky it could be CDN$5/month and a new semi-pro audio card and two shotgun mics and for Just One More Book it could be several visits to bookstores and online stores each week at $100 a pop. How do you define what is a reasonable limit and avoid having to “jury” every situation? Realistically, nobody asks for tips from others to fuel their book reading hobby, or donations to buy a new spinnaker for their personal sailboat.

Our thoughts on this are to keep it simple and avoiding having to write several complicated paragraphs to explain. If we say no revenue stream, it’s easy for someone to figure out on their own whether or not they qualify. It’s easy to explain that in a sentence. Much like Creative Commons has boiled things down to simple terms.

Again, this depends largely on whether this model can be adopted and sustained.

It seems that if we adopt these kinds of revenue streams, we would have to create a logo that indicates Powered by Passion and Google and a tip jar. :)

The community will have to make the final decisions. We are simply opening the discussion and leading the charge to achieve a community framework.

Your judges ;-)
Mark AND ANDREA

Or: what if I decided to put a link to my Amazon wishlist?

Dave