[Ssc-dev] InformaCam Commercialization

[Bryan Nunez]

Hi all,

I just wanted to send out an update on a meeting Sam and I had with Greg
Osberg who works for a company called Revylst, which works with early stage
startups.  As part of the Knight award we get free advice from a bunch of
different people in various areas, for example we're meeting with a
branding and communications person in the next couple weeks.

Anyway the idea is we are looking for ways to continue to fund InformaCam
development for the foreseeable future without having to continually rely
on grant money.  Nathan, Harlo, Yvette, Sam, and I met a couple weeks ago
to start talking about it and it seems like out of that conversation and
the one we had yesterday, the most obvious option is to see if we can
generate revenue from working with the for-profit news and media industry
since InformaCam could definitely benefit them on the content management
side initially, and eventually on the UGC verification side eventually.

Greg's initial recommendation was that we try to partner with a news
organization on a pilot project working initially on managing internal
content captured by reporters, then branching out to UGC.

If you have any ideas or questions, let me know.

Thanks,
Bryan

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