Paytron: Peer to Peer Micro-Grants for Arts and Culture
Purpose: provide a place for artists to solicit and receive microgrants from P2P patrons. Kiva for artists.
Approach: Use WordPress MU as a platform for artists to self-generate a page with an embedded donation widget.
domainname.com/artistname
would be a blog with their profile and donation info in the sidebar. They could use the blog to update about work progress, make requests, etc.
The main page would aggregate all artist posts into a river. Could also collect tags from artist profiles to build a tag cloud for artist discovery.
Artist workflow:
1) Create a profile
-- name
-- location
-- description of project
-- tags, keywords
-- upload multi-media of work
-- plug in paypal acct for donation widget
2) Create Profile post that is a generic description of project/request
3) Generate ongoing updates
4) Create a new project/request for funding
Patron workflow:
1) Find a project
Methods of discovery:
search
tag cloud browsing
review river of posts/feeds/email
direct to url
2) Create a profile on the site
-- similar to artist profile
-- describe projects you want to fund
-- updates
Some other places for us to review:
micropatronage.com
arthead.org
socialactions.com
Micropayment Service Providers
