This is a variation on donor-based funding for open source software (and therefore, open content). The idea is that donors contribute to a pool of money, and then donations are allocated by the number of people supporting given projects, as opposed to the size of the donations to those projects. This works against the phenomenon of rich donors picking winners, a valuable idea since such donations tend to favour (as I said in a post yesterday) projects "that entrench the idea of winners and losers, view the commodification and often the commercialization of community and media as inevitable, that view all of this as being inherently individual-based, libertarian, and 'free' in a very special and privileged sense of free." Via pia mancini.
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