Re: Funding campaign for Linked Data / Web Payments is ready

Manu,

Here are a few more suggestions:

"For example, if this project only raises enough funding to hire one
student, instead of having two to three students  on the Web Payments
Project, we might have to reduce it one." --- Did you omit the Linked Data
Projects?

"The Linked Data technologies are being used by Google, Facebook,
Microsoft, and a number of other large companies to build out services like
Google's Knowledge Graph and Facebook's Open Graph." --- How does this
involve Microsoft? schema.org?

Suggestion from:
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Team Up to Advance Semantic Web, MIT
Technology Review, June 10, 2011
www.technologyreview.com/news/424259/google-microsoft-and-yahoo-team-up-to-advance-semantic-web/


Change:

"There is also the possibility that a mentor will get sick or not be able
to participate as much as they would have wanted. We have at least 3
mentors per student, so the likelihood that all three mentors will not be
available at all times is fairly slim."


to something like:

"There is also the possibility that a mentor will get sick or not be able
to participate as much as they would have wanted. We have at least three
mentors per student, so the likelihood of a period when all mentors are
absent is fairly slim."

-Brent

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> On 05/18/2013 12:40 AM, Brent Shambaugh wrote:
> > In the document, I believe that the sentence "The work also deals
> > with cutting edge technology like Bitcoin, crypto-currencies, ... in
> > the way of the Web." should be replaced with "The work also deals
> > with cutting edge technologies like Bitcoin, .... in the way of the
> > Web."
>
> Fixed.
>
> > Does this sentence need to be repeated twice? "Note that if we do not
> > raise enough funding, not all of these projects will be attempted."
>
> Moved it into the risks section and expanded upon it.
>
> > "To show up higher in Google search rankings" This makes me
> > uncomfortable because I am aware of efforts to decrease manipulation
> > of search rankings such as in Google Penguin and before.
>
> Re-worded this.
>
> > Secondly, I know Google is providing support for GSoC, but could this
> > statement be unfair to other search providers?
>
> I included other search engines in the text now.
>
> Thanks for the feedback, Brent - let me know what you think of the updates:
>
>
> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/code-for-the-web-linked-data-and-web-payments/
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny)
> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: Meritora - Web payments commercial launch
> http://blog.meritora.com/launch/
>
>