A small step for book publishing - a huge leap for crowdsourcing space

^{(DISCLAIMER: This post is not a campaign for fundraising. The purpose of the post is to inspire readers to create their own crowdsourcing projects)}

On Habré already wrote about the project of Pavel Shubin ( shubinpavel ).
Pavel plans to publish a book about the history of the development of Venus.

The fundraising project was successfully completed on July 31.

Even 2 days before the deadline, the amount of fees was 500,000 rubles and, as in a Hollywood film, in the last hours, the "fast and the furious" joined in and the fees increased almost 2 times.

I hasten to congratulate Paul on his success.
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I take this victory as a personal one, for me it is more important than all the Olympic victories.
(and the completion of this project was the start for the next space crowdsourcing project, to which I once had a hand)

Pavel still has a lot of work to bring the layout to perfection and fulfill all obligations to bakers, as well as work on books on the Moon and Mars.

Without a doubt, Paul is a pioneer.
I hope that the genie is released from the bottle and from this point on the projects will appear more often (once a month, for example).

I hope that there will be a change in the thoughts of the engineers and they dare not only to sign petitions, but also for more radical steps and deeds (resign from work, assemble your satellite in the basement, write books, build rockets, launch stratostats, prepare for space flight, conduct lectures, design probes for flights to comets, create game simulation interactionories, build models of Martian stations, design thermo-vacuum chambers, etc.).

I have a suspicion that many masters have their own ideas on projects, including space ones.
I propose to participate in the survey under the cut, and in the comments to share your ideas, which space crowdsourcing projects will be cool to implement in the near future.




Pavel wrote:

Here is the project and completed. The conditional line, set six months ago, has been successfully passed, and the inscription “Successful” is lit next to the project.

I will not hide, these months have been very tense and I can hardly forget about them. I am glad that I was not mistaken, and my work turned out to be necessary for people. It is very, very nice. 439 people who believed in my work. And this is just six weeks. Moreover, many people offered to help with business. They sent foreign scientific articles to which I did not have access, my works on space topics, offered my services in three-dimensional modeling, editing and promotion of the text. They published information about the project in their blogs and scientific journals.

I am very grateful to all of you. It is very, very difficult to put into words all my feelings. I am glad that serious popular science literature is in demand in our country. Very glad. Thank you everybody. Only thanks to your help the book will see the light.