Jono the madman

February 26, 2007 7:13 pm Dave Neary General

On the day of my birthday (by complete coincidence, I assure you), Jono Bacon will complete yet another mad and brilliant scheme – he’s recording an entire album with 7 tracks in 24 hours on his own for charity (and releasing it under CC BY-NS-SA).

I’ve been talking about easy ways to do outreach recently – and this ain’t easy. But I definitely feel he’s underestimating his potential – he’s set his goal at £1000 when I am sure that he will get at least 5 times that (so prove me right!) – he’s already over £250 a couple of hours after announcing the insane trip.

I hope he gets some attention for this on the day, and gets to talk a bit about Creative Commons and why it’s good for everyone that we be allowed to build on our shared history and culture. Who knows – maybe he’ll get invited to play a track live on the night?

Update: The next morning, Jono’s up to £516 (the not-round-figure is due to Travis Reitter, who donated £51 just to get to the top of the list – quick, someone donate £52!)

Update 2: I’m not going to do this every day, but Jono’s now up to £821 after 3 days. Keep the support coming!

4 Responses

  1. Antoine Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 8:39 am

    Hi Dave,

    So you think it’s fine to give money to this guy so that he releases some tracks under a non-commercial license?
    While there are lots of people out there making free software and free content (free as in freedom) without even asking for money…

    Argh.

  2. Dave Neary Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 9:10 am

    Hi Antoine,

    Big Red Nose Day is the British equivalent of the Telethon – Jono is raising money for charity. If someone proposed writing some free software in a day for charity, I’d probably sponsor them too. 🙂

    Dave.

  3. Antoine Says:
    February 28th, 2007 at 9:17 am

    Ok, I didn’t know about that.
    Big Red Nose sounds funnier than Téléthon 🙂

    Cheers

    Antoine.

  4. Travis Reitter Says:
    March 1st, 2007 at 3:45 am

    My idea was to hopefully create a bidding war 🙂

    If that helped make #1 and 2 larger donations, all the better!

    It also helped test my credit card’s security – they called me within about 10 minutes to make sure a British carder wasn’t making fraudulent donations with my card 🙂