FreeCulture deploys in New York

So, this group called Free Culture is offering a prize of 1 iPod shuffle to whoever takes the best pictures in Manhattan on Friday, March 28th.

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To be included, pictures have to be Creative Commons licensed, which means that they can be legally distributed, printed, copied, and/or used in derivative works, while still allowing credit to be given where it's due. It's a very pro-creative license, encouraging people to share art and make more of it.


I think it is kind of neat that this just happens to fall right around the same time as our proposed photo-expedition in Greeley. Also, I think it is an amazing way to help the community come together and contribute to a common cause.

What if we did something like this in the future - got some sort of prize together, asking businesses to donate or whatever, and then created a massive collection of all the photos - it could be a website, or a flickr group, or whatever.

The things I like about the idea: community building, getting people out and about on the streets of Greeley, showing people beauty in places that they never would've seen before, and getting basically a huge stock photo type collection - I could see this as a potential benefit to all sorts of Greeley-based organizations, just having a huge base of area-relevant images for presentations or marketing materials or just as something to hang on the walls.

What do you all think? Is there enough interest in Greeley? Would it flop? Are there any other benefits/challenges you can think of?