I asked for $42,500 in this
kickstarter. Out of that, kickstarter takes 10% and the remaining 90% goes to people doing the editing, printing DVDs and all of the expenses for making this
project happen. I get $0.00. All of my other projects get $0.00. Other people who seem be popping up and demanding a cut get $0.00.
For the next $42,500 that comes in, kickstarter will still take 10%. And then there will probably be about $10,000 in stuff that I didn't think of or funds to go to somebody because that is the good and decent thing. And with double the gross income comes double the shipping, double the work, double the crazy, double whatever I forgot about before .... So I might get to keep about $15,000 - which is about the cost to host the innovators event last year. So the plan is to do that again.
For the next $42,500 that comes in, I
should be able to keep about $25,000. Well, we do have a long list of projects desperately in need of materials, and a long list of equipment that needs repairs. That will be spent in about three days. But then we will be able to move forward with
earthworks and
wofati projects that have been on hold. Plus, there are a lot of improvements we would like to make to better prepare for the innovators event.
That takes us to the kickstarter raising $127,500 - At that level,
wheaton labs gets $40,000 to further projects for more dvds and conduct more experiments which we then share with the world. But this amount is far more than we have ever raised before, and so far, this kickstarter is not keeping pace with some of our previous kickstarters - so this seems unlikely. But a guy can dream, can't he?
So here is my fantasy at this moment: the kickstarter brings in $200,000. With these extra funds, I wish to hire two people.
One to be in charge of our food systems. Somebody that is awesome at teaching PDCs and producing heaps of food. Somebody to play a large role in nurturing gappers and the PEP1 stuff. Somebody that understands the value of the potato village,
mushroom village, peanut village and
ant village. Somebody that with much better people skills than I have that would lead all sort of projects here plus provide guidance to the
deep roots folks. This person could, in 2016, run point on a half dozen workshops.
The second would be a full time natural builder. All of the qualities mentioned above, but with a focus on all the best in natural building. Help the idea of the
wofati grow forward. I suspect that the best wofati will be a hybrid of log buildings,
cob,
straw bale and passive
solar.
I think adding these two people might possibly triple our forward velocity.
(I need to point this out because the crazies will be by to talk about
greed and capitalism within moments of posting this) $200,000 would come in. And I would keep $0.00 of it. It's pretty easy to say that because I learned a few weeks ago that for 2014, my taxable income added up to 80 cents per hour. I easily live within the residual income streams that come from my
diatomaceous earth article.
I doubt that these funds will get this far, but the hard work that I do from this point to the end of the kickstarter, this is what it is really about.
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