Made up of representatives from six arts organizations, the ATHENA Tix Design Steering Group poured over copious notes taken from our Community Design Sessions and evaluated what made sense to include in version 1.0 of our software.
In my last post, I said that Open Source is as much a philosophy as a legal construct. As a legal construct, Open Source is clear. The terms of a given Open Source license (like ours) are explicitly detailed in its text.
Pegging down the philosphy of Open Source is a bit harder. The Open Source Initiative [...]
Fractured Atlas is currently developing an Open Source arts management system called ATHENA. Our first version will focus on ticketing and donor/customer management and plans are in the works to tackle marketing campaigns, finances and management of class and workshop programs.
Big whoop, you say, more software. Sure, it’s cool that they all work together, but [...]
(My thanks to Jean Cook of the Future of Music Coalition and Fractured Atlas’s Adam Huttler for their contributions to this piece.)
We hear a lot of talk about the coming leadership transition in the arts. Baby Boomers are nearing retirement age, and Gen X’ers and Millennials are itching to take on increased responsibility. It’s important [...]
Not long ago I was on a panel at the Grantmakers in the Arts Conference on new business models. Everyone on the panel was under the age of 40; nearly everyone in the audience was over 40.
Amid a generally feisty conversation, one question especially resonated for me. Acknowledging the generational divide, a grantmaker in [...]
What’s the single most crucial component of an arts organization’s infrastructure? For many, it’s their ticketing software. Consider that:
It’s a funnel through which most or all of their revenue flows.
It provides their best or only chance of collecting information about patrons.
It often serves as the primary medium for presenting information about upcoming events.
Rubber, allow me [...]
Check out Add-Art. It’s an extension for the Firefox web browser (which if you aren’t using, you should be) that replaces most web advertising with images of contemporary art. Here’s how the project is described on its site:
Add-Art is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated [...]
If you haven’t heard about this yet, I encourage you to check it out. In moby’s own words:
you can listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it’s being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, [...]
This piece originally appeared as an article in the Fractured Atlas newsletter on April 15, 2005.
The rise of the internet has changed how we communicate, shop, publish, educate, and even participate in democracy. Fifty years from now, though, we may realize that no change was more significant than the rise of free and open [...]
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