OpenProducer’s Community Media Pilot provides indie media and arts orgs with training, mentorship and technical assistance while growing the organizational capacity to sustain over time.
Sustainability
- Enable and enhance original content creation
- Grow revenue via fundraising, sponsorships, partnerships, and related services.
- Identify new models for content distribution and licensing
- Increase audience engagement
Platform support and maintenance
- Platform and security updates
- New features and improvements based on our platform development roadmap
- Support and troubleshooting
Training
- Training, mentorship and technical assistance to help strengthen organizational capacities as well as diversify revenue streams.
- Provide community members real-world learning opportunities to produce, engineer, host, write, interview, and create the media
Process/Roadmap
Once enrolled, OpenProducer and partners would do the following:
- Set Up an onboarding meeting – At the onboarding meeting we’ll
- Discuss the existing site to learn about any pending tasks you need taken care of right away
- Gather use cases from them to cover the critical features
- Determine additional needs such as hosting, custom development, and design
- Estimate costs for additional needs
- Migrate to partner hosting (two months of hosting included in initial cost)
- Provide platform security updates and maintenance (initial enrollment covers the first two months)
- Continuing research into best practices in revenue development
- Series of in-person and virtual courses, workshops, hackathons, and other training opportunities for staff and volunteers.
- Create toolkits and share best practices to help achieve long-term sustainability
- Quarterly fundraising events
