February Newsletter: InkBlot Announcement, Jan Financial Report, Pod Leads Wanted
What's that? A big InkBlot announcement! Read all about it in this newsletter. Be sure to check out our FR for January and volunteer positions for our annual Drive!
New Beginnings…
Hello All, Jay here!
As we have gotten settled with our new org structure and an established board, the board has discussed and planned the state of development that InkBlot has been in; as well the future that the project had originally been working towards. After some research and financial forecasting on my part - as the technology director on the board - I proposed the idea of an InkBlot Art 2.0 .
Most of our users and supporters are well aware that the open beta that we have been in has mostly stalled in its development due to the funding; with this in mind we’ve also had years of experience, feedback, and trial and error to better understand our communities needs and expectations of what it is to make a thriving creative community within the digital age that we are in.
Inkblot Art 2.0 will be launched to our supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi as well as GoPro mid February 2025. Given the social networking climate that we have been in for the past several years, we understand that the idea of starting over may be frustrating to some but we hope that you see 2.0 as the final iteration - the InkBlot Art will go into with this launch.Seeing this as a fresh start with learned - though difficult - lessons and knowledge as well as a solid structured board and team, InkBlot 2.0 will be the product and result of over five years of hard work and community focused dedication.
As the board discussed, we will start off very “simple” with the most basic but intuitive features that you can expect from any social network and community driven project. All of the current bugs and issues that the existing version 1.0 have will be completely ironed out on this new canvas called InkBlot Art 2.0.
Any further questions had will be found answered with a blog post on our Substack/newsletter next week. Additionally, there will be a demo live stream that takes place next week Saturday, February 22nd 2025 to our Kofi Supporters. (More information will be available in the mentioned blog post.)
To answer any frequently asked questions, such as account data or account deletion, please contact our support team at support@inkblot.art. You can also reference our privacy policy and find account deletion is also via. settings for self service.
With this all in mind, I hope to see the familiar faces of users and supporters both new and long-term and I look forward to soft launching 2.0 this month with our patrons that have provided endless support to this project.
The folks at Chrysalis Collective (formerly InkBlot Art LLC) thank you for your patience, understanding, and support.
January Financial Report - First FR of 2025
Here’s the January Financial Report.
Note from the Director of Finance’s Desk:
First report of the new year and Inkblot is starting off really strong! The board met last month to discuss the incredibly generous donation and how it could help Inkblot the most. We’re earmarking the whole donation for dev work on Inkblot 2.0! We heard from you all, and agreed, that the site needed work done and that is our most important goal for Inkblot this year.
Jay has already announced Inkblot 2.0 and spoken a bit about it, but please keep listening and helping it grow with your support; whether that’s with your money, or just by using the site, sharing InkBlot with your fellow creatives or your suggestions - it all helps us create InkBlot to be a place for artists and the people who support them.
I’ll see myself out before I get too sappy on you all, but we at InkBlot - the board, the staff and the volunteers - all appreciate you!
Same Drive, New Volunteer Look
Applications are still open for our drive!! We’re looking for Artists AND Pod Leads! What’s a Pod Lead? Check out this flyer:
| Pod Lead Application | Drive Artist Application |
We only need 12 animators to launch the beginning of this project! Apply today.
Applications close February 15th.
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