Posted by admin on 4:39 pm
Hey, so we have a winner to the Angels competition. You’ve probably counted them all and know this anyway, but in reverse order (from 3) we have:
THIRD with 37 votes is Lupin with her star (Lupin’s blog post about the story of making the star is well worth a read)
SECOND with 39 votes we have Daisie Davies and her ice skates
And the WINNER with a staggering 92 votes is NiftyKnits with her wind chime….
So, NiftyKnits gets Folksy free for a year – looking forward to seeing lots of her work on the site.
What next? We’ll be printing out the images from the competition to sell as Christmas Cards on the site. The cards will be produced at cost (we’re looking at different options and are trying to use recycled card) for people to buy and will link back to the blog post with all of your details on (so you all get attribution). If you don’t want your image to be used please email us ASAP.
Thank you *so* much to everyone who voted and more importantly to all those who made something and went to so much effort to take part. Thank you. We’ll be posting another competition soon but in the meantime we’d love your feedback on what competitions you’d like to see us run… please put your thoughts in the comments.
This may also be a good opportunity to say thank you to the We Make people and we hope you have a great fair this Saturday at 79a Tottenham Court Road in the American Church in London.
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Posted by admin on 2:06 pm
Hey, so Makes have launched! Thank you to all the testers for their feedback and for creating their Makes. Go have a play!
We’ve tried to work in the feedback from the testers but a few of the things that have been recommended were not do-able (and not essential) in the short term. Two things particularly stand out:
- Having made a big deal of the ability to commission one of the Makes from the author, we’ve taken that off, for now at least. We’ll introduce this as an option for authors to check in the process rather than as a default. However, you can still point to items of the Make you have for sale in your shop a “can’t be bothered to Make this? Buy one instead”. I like this feature. Of course you need to have one in the shop for sale – if you don’t the text and link will not appear.
- Copyright. We want to be able to give you the ability to manage the rights of your Makes using Creative Commons licensing. This feels right. They are after all, yours. However, we have not had time to build in the Creative Commons element which allows you to choose the license you want so we’ve launched Makes with the existing Terms of Use which gives you ownership of the content but also give Folksy a license to use the content. But we’re all for re-use and sharing and many of you will be too, so the cc license model will be in place in the not-to-distant future.
We really do hope you like Makes. I know there are a heap of tutorials on the web already (mainly on craft blogs). We’re not in any way trying to muscle in on that, rather we want to promote how things are made. This way, people will see the love that goes into your things and consequently be more interested in buying craft things as well as making them. The more we promote what you do, the more we all benefit.
What’s Next?
We’ve got a few more minor amends we’re implementing for the 12th Dec and then the next big milestone is International Sales in late Feb next year.
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