Code for good / for you
When you joined FMA somewhere between 2009 and 2019 as a contributor you probably started with a lot of enthusiasm and passion but experienced a fair amount of issues with our friendly web service in recent years.
So first on our to-do list (June 1, 2020 onwards): rebuild the FMA web service.
And no, this is not all nerds working at night, eating pizza and talking in binary code. We are simultaneously going to spend a lot of time with the FMA community: musicians, ex-curators, netlabels and music fanatics. We are not creating FMA Next because we can but because we care!
So while the techies try to solve the big question “how to use future proof technology to run FMA smoothly for many years?”, we can start our journey together and investigate, build and improve new ways to reward creativity while keeping FMA open and accessible to all.
Grant for the Web - Welcome!
You might have seen this blog post and to us this news means a lot. It’s organizations like Creative Commons, Mozilla and Coil.com showing and expressing their trust in FMA’s bright future. With this grant we can build, experiment, invite all relevant participants to share knowledge and hopefully create a healthy and sustainable future together.
Join the future of FMA
We still have the FMA database of course so eventually we will invite you via email. But maybe your email address is no longer in use, maybe our email ends up in your spam box or you mistake us for a scam promising you to wire $1,000,000 to your bank account. LOL, you wish!
So, if you contributed in the past and are willing to give us a helping hand, share your insights and ideas, click the “keep me posted” button below and we will connect with you in the upcoming weeks.
And although we live in challenging times remember: tough times never last, but tough people do! Hoorah for the FMA contributor!!