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Open Creative Commons Development
The „Open“ is the common prefix and foundation of how we work since 2024: Open-Source, Open Participation, Open transparent, Open financed and Open Development. It’s not just what we do, but how we do it!
2025 Q1 Pathmap
There ain´t no roads in the SWAG project. Just agile sprints mapping a path in fresh territory. Here is what we see at the horizon and develop towards.
Open Finance
Full transparent and public financing, funding, project costs and Grant management on a world wide Open Collective platform
Project Steps, the path ahead, Q1 2025
I. Secure Funding of Q1 2025 Project development
- Design a website 1 pager, English, present the 2025 concept (done)
- Find a Common Good Fiscal Host and Platform for Open-Financing and Fund Management (done)
- Further develop the website, add all relevant details and a live Kanban „roadmap“ ( in progress)
- Invite Foundations, NGO’s, Philanthropists to co-fund THE SWAG Q1 2025 (in progress)
II. Weave the Network
- Find a local coop partner in Brussels, EU as the next City Partner of 5 in diverse European Countries. (Kassel, Germany already in since 2024 and heading towards a high quality German Game Box, financed by Smart City Kassel
- Live Develop the multi-lingual gamified Social Collaboration Network and use it as a coop.
We start with the already existing 2024 base of a Nextcloud, Talk and super extended WordPress stack already established
III. Contribute to the Core with Educational bonus material
We succesfully published a first printed, public alpha after just 4 agile development months in 2024. What we could not get to, yet, is to design the „Play’n Learn“ educational bonus material that will accompany this years boxed version.
The creation of this „Play and Learn“ bonus material is not funded yet. It is very important to add this feature for impact of the tabletop and card game. Now that we played the game, what did we learn about Recycling, -methods and a Circular economy ? How can we actively help ?
IV. Find 3 additional City Partners within diverse EU countries
- Develop SWAG Game design Workshops
- Run first test Workshops,
- produce localized waste monster and recycling mod cards,
- film and cut videos to introduce your city to the others
- connect young participants of the Cities with each other within the Gamified Network
- Organize an event in which all 5 City SWAgencies connect in a live stream ( Q2 2025)
Q2 2025
Open Finance
Public, Open, Full transparency!
Money Flows of public and common good nature should also be public for the common good! Where does it come from ? Where does it go and for what ? Everyone can see the financial stream and even analyze, as the .csv download is also being provided to the public. A save grassroots way to inspire .gov institutions of how it could and should be done!
The SWAG is fiscally hosted by the Open Collective Europe Foundation in Brussels. When a foundation wants to provide grant funding to THE SWAG, it will be directed to a representative of our fiscal host to begin the legal procedure.
What has to be financed in Q1 2025 ?
50€ per month
Garden Linux web-server, web-hosting fee.
This is the Server on which our gamified Social Collaboration Network, our Open-Source cloud and our website is running on.
2×1800,00€ = 2 month Fulltime Project Development
Includes:
- Development of the gamified Open-Source Social Collaboration Network connecting SWAG game designer and local City partners
- Weaving the network of local EU partners and youth organizations
- Website Design and Realtime documentation
- Managing Funding, Fundraising and Open Finance Page
Tools
4000€ Partner Budget
Local youth .org partners in the EU Cities of Brussels and Kassel should be able to bill their facilitation of SWAG Gamedesign Workshops to THE SWAG.
The first synchronous SWAG Gamedesign playshop between 2 EU Cities is planned for April 2025 during the Easter holidays.