I’m supporting Joe Clark. You should too.
On the website for his new Open & Closed Project, Joe Clark writes,
The Open & Closed Project is a research project headquartered in Toronto. Our main goal is to write a set of standards for the four fields of accessible media – captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing. We’ll develop those standards through research and evidence-gathering. Where research or evidence is missing on a certain topic, we’ll carry it out ourselves.
He needs $7million Canadian to fund the project. In order to raise this funding, Joe’s on a micropatronage drive to fund his food, water and central heating while he raises that huge sum:
My donation goal (the amount I am trying to raise) is a convenient $7,777, which, apart from being a lucky number, will keep me afloat at a subsistence level for four months … You’ll keep me afloat for four months while I try to put the money together. You’ll buy time for me to raise the money; you won’t be funding the Project itself.
I’ve promised a small amount to Joe, and urge you to do the same, for three reasons:
- The research needs doing.
- It’s my belief that there’s no-one able to do this who’s as tenacious as Joe.
- At least you know he won’t be blowing the money on booze, fags and Charlie.
Joe may, in fact, be blowing the cash on Charlie, but he won’t be blowing the cash on charlie.