FYC: MediaGoblin funding Campaign

[Scott Sullivan]

### For Your Consideration ###

    GNU MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing system for
    images, video, and audio (and now 3D objects).

This is a project that has really caught my attention and reminded me 
why I feel open source is so important. It gives the freedoms to find 
way's in which to better help and serve each other and decentralizes 
power. This project in particular can put our media back in our hands 
(or the hands of service provider we can choose).

Take a look, see if supporting this project is worth while for you.

http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html


Below is an update about the campaign that was sent out to current 
supporters, which I am one.
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Hey all!

Thought I'd give a mini-update.  We've had some exciting news
recently, and I really ought to update here in case you haven't seen!
So here goes.

  - First of all, we currently have campaign matching of ten thousand
    dollars!  That means that until we hit $25k, things are currently
    doubled.  Once we hit that, we jump from $25k->$35k... like magic!

    If you know someone who's been holding out on donating, tell them:
    now is the time to donate!
    http://mediagoblin.org/news/10k-campaign-matching.html

  - Also, we got a 3d model support media type added to MediaGoblin!
    http://mediagoblin.org/news/3d-support.html

    I could hardly be more excited about this!  This means that
    MediaGoblin is no longer just a YouTube, SoundCloud, Flickr
    alternative... it's moving into the space to providing a
    free-as-in-freedom alternative to Thingiverse!

    Also awesome: this feature was sponsored by Lulzbot... the same
    people who got the first ever FSF hardware endorsement!

 
https://www.fsf.org/news/hardware-certification-aleph-objects-lulzbot-3d-printer

    Yay for free-as-in-freedom projects teaming up! :)

  - YouTube and GitHub: both down in the same day!  We made a blogpost
    about it: "How to respond to a YouTube cat-astrophe? Decentralize
    the web!"

    http://mediagoblin.org/news/youtube-catastrophe.html

  - A number of us went to the Federated Social Web Summit!  We're
    planning out MediaGoblin's federated future.  You can read more on
    it here!

    http://mediagoblin.org/news/fsws-2012-wrap-up.html

  - Oh,  and here's  some fun!   MediaGoblin fanart  by Justin  Nichol!
    Does that totally rock or what?

    http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-fanart-justin-nichol.html

Lastly, we could really use your help spreading the news!  We'd like
to meet the 10k matching grant by the end of the week at least!
That's about $3000 more to go!  Can you help out by spreading word
about the above?  Anything you can do to spread the word will help!

Speaking of which, thinking of adding a "support MediaGoblin" thing to
your site?  Laura Arjona made a banner... you can add it to your own
site like:

   <p style="text-align: center;">
     <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html"
        style="display: block;">
       <img 
src="http://mediagoblin.org/images/campaign/support_mediagoblin-blogbanner.png" 
alt="Support MediaGoblin!"
            style="box-shadow: 0 0 5px black; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 
5px black;" />
     </a><br />
     <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/">GNU MediaGoblin</a>
     is building a free as in freedom media
     publishing platform, and it needs your help!
     <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html">Donate!</a> :)
   </p>

Thanks for everything, all!  I know we can do this, because we have
you and your help backing us up! :)
  - Chris

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