We are going to change that as soon as we can.
I don't know how, but a site that can accept music, art, photographs to be admired and studied by others is paramount.
I mean, don't we already judge each others writing on Devtome for conformance to grammar and understandability?
we can do the same for art, music, architecture etc; All we have to do is setup a platform that can accept that type of change.
Heck we can modify the dokuwiki software to allow that.
We can start accepting music and simply judge it in a different way as users hear it. We can support each other by voting on the quality of work by giving the artists, developers, marketers our own devcoins above and beyond what they earn from having their work accepted. using these coins given through Devtome would allow us to rank users contributions to the arts, a sort of springboard that allows people to more easily share their art. With this system our most appreciated artists can act as advertisements to further develop the community by attracting further talent and users.
I was also thinking of changing the category system so normal users can judge the works and allow them to be part of a dynamic category system where people can find writings, art, music according to their mood, to the themes, artists, authors, or just to what is most needed by them to find out, maybe even a bounty system within devtome for people to request works.
We can be the judges of the art and our opinions of it will be the categories; If you have seen TED.com you know the rating system is based on emotions, thoughts, judgments, this system is a limited system compared to what I have in mind.
expand the tome to be able to accept works from every strata of art, design, technology, architecture, engineering, programming... these people are developers too. It's a big vision, but a thousand mile journey starts with the first step.
I have looked at the Devcoin system and it is financially sound, it is a good foundation. The coin is not capped, which means there is a lot of room for new artists, writers, engineers, programmers for all creators to benefit. 50,000 coins per block seems like a lot of coins, but in the long run devcoin is designed to last for decades before the generation rate needs to be halved.
the market aspect of Devcoin is very low at the moment, but that can change as we promote our talent. This is where the Devcoin rating system would help, if we judge, rate and categorize all the submitted works together instead of just overloading the admins with it we can move ahead. use the power of the community, of people who truly care about us creators. by creators for creators. Our best talent will be promoted to advertise what we can accomplish, bringing with it the support of regular users who will want to purchase Devcoins to promote the talent that we have on Devtome.
think about all the people out there who will want to read more about your amazing adventure, who want to see you programming more, who can't wait to hear your next song or see your next painting, they are investing in their own future not just yours, this is how we will make Devcoin worth something more than just a reward scheme but a source for inspiration, art, hope, and self-fulfillment in our personal endeavors.
Are you with me brothers and sisters? lets do this.
1) Allow users to judge categorize and rate with devcoins the works of others.
2) Expand the Devtome to accept music, art, sculptures, architecture, designs, blueprints, code, tutorials, techniques, to reward the expansion of all arts and knowledge to be assessed by all users.
3) Create tools in the tome for people to create and share their works on facebook, youtube, other sites, let the ideas flow forth from Devtome into the world so they may see us and know that we are here.
4) think, create, and remember all ideas are valid, all creation is welcome.
5) plus... we need more language support, I'm sure some people would like to write in a different language.
