User:Hecker/GrantStrategy/Art

The following describes a possible future program under the Mozilla Catalyst umbrella:

• Problem: The Mozilla project wants to promote the use of open web technologies (e.g., HTML5 and Canvas) for advanced graphical applications such as digital art, but creative individuals working with online media are still generally wedded to proprietary or non-web-native technologies (e.g., Flash or Java).
• Entrepreneurial partner: TBD.
• Internal champion(s): TBD.
• Short-term goal: Get more people creating art using open web technologies.
• Long-term vision: Use open source technologies and practices to help spark a new wave of artists and artistic movements rooted in the values, communities, and technologies of the open web.
• Strategy and analysis: TBD.
• Activities: Activities under this program might include:
  • support of the Processing for the Web project to migrate the Processing language and environment to the open web
  • support for efforts to create new open web applications for online collaboration by artists
  • sponsorship of competitions, challenges, workshops, and other events to promote creation of artworks using open web technologies.
• Funding: TBD, but should be consistent with the guidelines above.
• Other partners: TBD, but could include
  • institutions (e.g., museums, private foundations) supporting artists working in digital media