Sharing of work

[Idle Ideas Inc.]

Hi everyone,

We're very glad that yet another framework was shared to the community recently. That makes 2 LOL ;). 

Joking aside, each one marks a point of stability, from our perspective, and we all know what we all went through, to get here. So, it's a good time to get this discussion underway, even if the actuality is quite a bit into the future still.

As most of you know (our apologies to those who don't), Idle Ideas is a small development group, with modest commercial intents for the future. We never hid that fact from everyone, though it's easy for that, and other facts, to get buried in all the text we've written since everything began.

One important aspect of our overall plan is to foster creative works through our apps/tools and offer fairness, reliability and responsibility, in the shepherding of these.

It is important to us that people come to understand that it is our aim to be the most equitable (even generous) provider, out there. What is intended to be free, should be free. What is intended by creators to profit from, should always in their favor. Whatever exists in the real world in order to make these ideals sustainable, everyone should be aware of and agreeable with.

Currently, we are still in the process of creating tools and services. But like any company that wants to do good, it helps to be guided by people who believe in what we're trying to do, and who see and think of things, we wouldn't have.

(Note that this isn't only for Mote, but for all the projects that currently make up the "grand" plan.)

Therefore, this topic is to discuss the following, ordered by importance:

• What constitutes as fair between creator and host.
• The technical and technological aspects of sharing creations.
• Strategies in driving awareness of our apps and these creations.
  
• Helpful opinions, and suggestions for threads on relevant topics.
• Whatever should be on this list that we've missed.

We hope to hear from you guys. There's a lot of fun things to discuss, especially on the technical aspects :))

Thanks.

[Arsil PS]

Hi ^^

I wrote a relatively long reply but it got lost somehow. I'm mad but maybe that
was for the best because I'm still not sure if I understand the OP correctly.

Is this about creating a market place service for free and non free resources?

[Idle Ideas Inc.]

I don't see what you would get mad about.

One of Sandstorm's services is essentially a content dissemination/broker site. We have artists and writers line up that will eventually showcase their work through it, when it goes live (Sift's not Mote's). As for whatever's offered willingly and free, to us specifically, by whoever, this thread hopes to discuss the technical aspects of that as well. We're not going to grab just anything that's out there and aggregate it it on our side. Our goal is for Sandstorm to be an intermediary for people to discover all sorts of things in this niche.

So again, I'm not sure what you're mad about, but do expound if you want.

[Arsil PS]

Damn it. What an unfortunate phrasing I've used. I apologize for the misunderstanding.
I meant that I was mad about losing the long post that took me a while to write.

Thanks for the further explanation, that made much clearer (to me) what this discussion
is about (my lost post was pretty off mark).
I don't think I can offer much insight or suggestions, but I wish you the best.

[Idle Ideas Inc.]

LOL Oh I see. No problem about that :)

You'll probably have input once this gets fleshed out. Dissemination and collaboration of resources, are at the heart of our future plans. 

[Longshot Md]

I, for one, plan to share out my
Mote D&D 5E framework (a revamped one based off Paulstait's) and importer to make 5e tokens. Is that the kind of thing you mean?

[Idle Ideas Inc.]

yes, thanks :)

also, if you've been following developments, we've began work on content module of Sandstorm, starting with the Global repository. Libraries, images, frameworks, etc will follow in due time, along with other content types provided by actual creators (though the latter is somewhere further down the line).