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Hello everybody,

we are trying to implement the 5 motivators of giving, as shared in the TED Talk of Taylor Conroy - How to Build a School in 3 Hours (worth watching, 19min) youtube.com/watch?v=aC02SmuOxYI . The motivators are: Group Mentality, Tangible Outcome, Microgiving, Personal Connection and Recognition. We believe that these are indeed motivators and we want to integrate them in the CiviCRM Personal Campaigns.

Who are we and what we are doing?
We are from Open Source Ecology, opensourceecology.org, a growing community building a set of 50 open source machines for food production, house construction, energy generation, transportation and manufacturing (You can check the OSE TED Talk here: ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html). Being a Open Source Hardware project we started long ago with crowdfunding and we want to upgrade our True Fans campaign (opensourceecology.org/wiki/True_Fans) to a higher standard. That's why we are pursuing the implementation of the 5 motivators of giving in Drupal, CiviCRM. We defined this proposal opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Microfunding_Proposal and here we are documenting how we intend to implement it: opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Microfunding_Proposal/Implementation .

Some of the not finished yet goals are:
- Add Video to a Personal Campaign.
- Create publicly visible pages (with own URL) of the Sharing between users. What a person A shares to a person B in the form of text and video should be visible by everyone and on this page one should be able to contribute to the campaign.

We saw that such work could benefit the whole CiviCRM community and that's why we are writing to you. Would you like to help us make a much better crowdfunding platform in CiviCRM? All this work, once ready and open sourced, can be of use to thousands of other projects now and in the future.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Nikolay