Using crowd-sourced funding for language work.

[Keisha Marie Josephs]

There is a crowdfunding site available specifically for indigenous
languages. http://www.thelanguagedocumentationcrowd.org/. The last time I
checked they were looking for projects to put up on the web site.

-Keisha Josephs


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:32 PM, jb spelqwa <spelqwa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I love it!!  I have been thinking about the same things.  I think I will
> stop thinking about it and get to it. Thanks.
>
>
>   On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:09 PM, "mccreery at uvic.ca" <
> mccreery at uvic.ca> wrote:
>  Taanshi kiyawaaw ILAT,
>
> For the past year I've been thinking about my dependency on various forms
> of funding for doing documentation on Michif.  In cooperating with the
> Metis Nation of BC I've applied for a few grants, but they haven't come
> through.  The problem is, when they don't come through so far it's always
> been at the last moment, meaning I've had to cancel the work I was
> planning.
>
> This year I've done enough work that I can fund myself, and likely will,
> but at the same time, the work I'm doing is for my whole community.  I
> don't really like relying on government grants to do this work, because,
> well, because government and strings, and obstacles.  I think that we need
> a different model, or at least in part we need to switch things up.
>
> That's why I've decided to give another technology a try this summer,
> crowd-sourced funding.  It makes sense on a lot of levels.  The first, and
> most important, is that it directly gets a lot of people involved in the
> work, personally invested not just for a few dollars, but also
> emotionally, as a community around the language. It makes me directly
> accountable to my community, and them directly invested in what is being
> done, something that bodes well for the future.
>
> What am I getting at? Well, I've decided to do it.  The following is my
> gofundme proposal to fund a couple months of travelling, recording, prep
> work and transcribing.
>
> http://www.gofundme.com/63d2qk
>
> I'd ask you to donate if you're interested in Michif, and take note of my
> successes or failures for your own hopeful future use of this same tool
> for your own programs or recording.  I think for aspects of language work
> that produce concrete results (like recording), this is a valid approach
> to cover costs.
>
> Eekoshe eekwa,
>
> Dale
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