The muffin is dead, long lives the muffin!

For several months there was not much going on at this project for one reason:
I had to finish my studies, get a job and right now, moving into an apartment etc. Although all that stuff kept me busy (and still does) I did some things in the background. Mainly thinking about the project and how to improve it.

A very important deficit so far was that everything relied upon me. participation was not possible or easy in every part of the project, if i wasn’t allowing, or actually doing it. A pretty bad system, since i didn’t have too much time.

The logical solution to this problem is to make participation at all levels easier. The first step I did was to set up a Wiki and transport all of the important Information to it. You can find it here:
http://wiki.openmuffin.net
You’ve got to log in with the account you created in the forum (http://forum.openmuffin.net).

This is just one step. All the other ideas I’ve got can be read in the wiki:
http://wiki.openmuffin.net/index.php/Muffin_wiki:Ideas

And here comes the benefit: If you’ve got an idea for improvements yourself, just edit the wiki and add it in there. Also a short discussion about it won’t hurt. That way bringing in Ideas at a central point (and not spread over the whole forums) is much easier.

Let me summarize other ideas of improvements here in short:

  • No more decision making by polls only. Arguments, Discussion and discourse should be the base of our decisions, not voting systems.
  • Let’s change the project name in long term.
  • We’ll change the license to “CC-BY-SA” or “CC-BY-SA-NC”.
  • Foundation of an official organization for the project(s) we’re doing.
  • Realtime communication / Chat system.
  • and so on…

You can see, I was not completely lazy the last months and I’ll spend more time in the future again. I’d like to be perfectly honest to you. That does not mean the project is gonna be finished any time soon, but at least we’ll have some progress again. We’ll see how it turns out.

Now let’s get back to work! We’ve got an animation to do :)

greetings,
atti

We’re on hold

As followers of the project already know, we’re pretty much on hold since November. This is totally my fault, since I am currently busy writing my master thesis and stuff.

Anyways, this production pause is not forever. I was thinking and considering a lot recently and made up some ideas for improvements regarding the project organisation. I’ll come back with detailed information soon, so stay tuned for the muffin coming back on track!

greetings,

atti

New viral, advanced task management and facebook page

Hi crew!

First of all, let me officially announce the second viral to you:

Open Muffin – The story is finished! from Open Muffin on Vimeo.

I hope you like it and hopefully the project will gain more attention with it. You can help by, for example, posting this on your blog or share it on facebook. If you don’t know how to do that, you can read it here.

One thing that I’m very glad for is our new task management. The list of open tasks looks a lot better now and it is much easier to maintain. As you can see, there are now widgets here in the blog and at the forum that’ll remind us on our tasks. The other great benefit is that you can subscribe to a task feed that’ll tell you the 10 most urgent task:

task feed

Last but not least: We have a facebook page now. The facebook group was pretty successful and still exists, but you may consider becoming a fan of the facebook page too:

task feed

thanks,

atti

We got a title: This is Joe

Hi,

We already have a finished screenplay, but it lacked a title for both the series and the episode. So we voted for them and here are the results:

Series title:

This is Joe

Episode title:

Pizza delivery school

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Now that we know the titles, let me announce the tasks for creating fancy lettering and logos. If you are a gifted 2D designer make a draft and let us know.

thanks,

atti