Welcome to BuildFTW! Thanks for playing.
As you know, this is the birth of Build. So more development needs to take place before s/he walks and talks and you can help! One way to help is to use what's here and let us know how well it works for you. Then let us know what you'd like to have here that isn't.
Soon we'll have short video how-tos and bits about the ideas behind and around this. In the meantime poking around and using the q&a forum should get you pretty far.
I've really found the to-do lists to be useful for myself and it'll be useful to be able to see what each other actually does in order to accomplish the work of each project. Explore those when you have a chance and see if you can get in the habit of writing your lists here. Then others who work on your project can collaborate with you in this space to get things done, and people in similar projects can easily get ideas from your work.
For the theory behind this BuildFTW project see the presentation Marc and I gave in Lyon in February 2011 to introduce it to the world. It's about 20 min. I think there are some ideas in there that contextualize this effort better and I'd love for you to see it: http://vimeo.com/22087213
It'll be fun to learn with you here!
Thanks
Stephanie
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another new item - accept donations through Build
hi!
I didn't mention this in the post itself because it wasn't there yet - but we now have a way for you to add a donation button on your project page. A good incentive to direct people here and keep your stuff up to date!!
We'll also have some more sophisticated ways for people to contribute time or money as they download your materials - optional for you to use, of course. But I hope to get us in a place where we can use our own models of reciprocity and resource-banking to contribute to greater self-sustainability for our efforts, and this is one piece of that.
Thanks!
Stephanie