User:SamRose

Hi, I'm SamRose

See: http://communitywiki.org/SamRose for more about me.

Affiliation idea

Parking this here now. Thinking about affiliation ideas, like http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1477

Basically, a widely useful xhtml declaration of affiliation. "I am affialiated with open ID, Microformats, etc."

By placing the chicklet or graphic link on our site, we declare in xhtml (semantic) data that we are affiliated with something. Now, I could then take that data and parse it along with other data about a person.

Maybe there is something that already accomplishes this in microformats?

Pledge Examples Draft page

working on a Draft page for pledge-examples, that I will move to pledge-examples when finished.

Pledge Examples

This page is a documentation of examples where people are pledging money for different reasons online without simultaneously paying on the spot the money pledged.

Why Pledge Without Paying?

Generally, on the web, "pledging" money has been done in conjunction with donating money. So that pledges are simultaneaously donations that are paid immediately via online ecommerce tools (like paypal).

Increasingly, people have been using online environments to collectively raise money for different purposes. This is leading to situations where people prefer to first pledge money before paying.

Participants

The following people are interested in this:

• SamRose
• Christophe Ducamp

Real-World Examples

• • Links to public web pages, either popular or insightful

Existing Practices

• • Summary of common patterns discovered
  • Other attempts to solve The Problem
• See Also / Next Steps
  • Link to related pages as they become available
    • *-formats
    • *-brainstorming

Real World Examples section

• Flat list at a minimum. The real world examples section should be at a minimum a flat list of examples. See further down for what a good example has.
• Grouping into categories can help. A giant flat list of examples can sometimes be difficult to navigate and analyze as a whole. Consider grouping related examples into a flat list of categories. If you're not sure how to categorize the examples, or if there are multiple axes across which you could categorize the examples, ask on the mailing list and/or irc channel