I am very excited to write you today. With Gaian.me we are announcing the next release after Gaia10! With all your help and contribution we formed an actively engaged team of over 20 developers, designers and thinkers to build the platform for Gaian.me. What is it?

Imagine Gaia10 would open up to everyone to contribute designs, art and more to celebrate the beauty of nature. We are just about to launch this community where you can discover our planet through all kind of media. The best thing is, everyone will be able to contribute their artworks, articles and more. A team of 12 GAIAN Delegates from all around the world will feature the most beautiful contributions together with the most celebrated by the community. Beside this great new feature for everyone to submit art, we announce a whole new area to Gaian: Games and Swarms!

To find out more and join us for the great launch, sign up on www.gaian.me

Hello David! First of all we would like to thank you for your great contribution to Gaia10. With a full featured CustoPack you provide an easy and simple solution to customize Windows 7 with digital art made by gaian artists. Could you please tell us a bit more about yourself and what a CustoPack is?

Hi Marius! Thank you for your welcome, I am really delighted to be able to contribute to the Gaia10 project. My name is David PIERON, more well-known under the pseudonym dlb. I created in 2004 the CrystalXP.net website and I have a great passion for customization. That’s why I created with the help of Aurélien (aka Vermi) CustoPack Tools software.
This software is as it were a combination between WindowBlinds and IconPackager with the difference that CustoPack Tools is entirely free.
So it allows the largest possible number of people to easily install packs containing visual style, backgrounds, icons, cursors… without having particular computing science knowledge.

With the Gaia10 CustoPack we are very happy to provide an all in one package for all Windows 7 users coming across the Gaia Website. By the way, how did you find the Gaia Project?

I discovered the Gaia project by any chance in 2008 on customize.org website. From that time, each year I followed its progress with pleasure and admiration. It’s a project bringing many artists together and which is very supported. Each year, this project reminds us that the nature is beautiful and that we should protect our planet.
Moreover it’s important for me to thank artists for their beautiful creations.

You created such a versatile contribution to Gaia. What motivated you to do it?

I wanted to participate in this project in one way or another. I am not a photographer, a musician or an icons creator so I made what I could do better: a pack!
With this CustoPack, I hope to make accessible the art of Gaian artists to the largest possible number of people and especially to people who don’t want to patch dll and change manually icons!

Thank you very much David! We really look forward to continue our partnership with CustoPack in the future.

Thank you very much Marius! It will be with pleasure that I will continue to participate in the gaia project. Good luck for the future and see you very soon.

Download the Gaia10 Custopack

thank you so much for the amazing response to our open call! 28 new and engaged gaians joined our team to build the open source network to celebrate the beauty of nature. With their skills and knowledge they all contribute to a soon to be released Gaian.me beta version. We are all very happy to welcome you to the team and want to thank you:

Stratos, Maxime, Nikita, Chris, Thomas, Andrei, Jack, Caleb, Oleg, Archan, Lachezar, Torsten, Hugh, Adam, Michael, Rui, Roman, Arkuma, Larissa, Henry, Steffen, Fredrik, Carolin, Josef, Steve, Marie, Luke, Nakul and Nitish.

As artists, developers, designers, and much more they all support our growing network. Beside these amazing news we have even more presents for all of you gaians supporting us constantly. If you want to join us,  just leave a comment or send us a mail. We are looking forward to welcome you to the team.

The Gaia10 Shirt was just released by LaFraise, the leading european community for apparel. The organic shirt is now available here. Be sure you get one of the limited 500 shirts!

With our constantly growing network we also connect with professional creatives. Rui is one of our talented new gaians and he is going to contribute a trailer to Gaian.me. We all want to thank you for your great support.

Early 2011 will be a wonderful time to celebrate the beauty of nature world wide for every gaian! Watch out for new updates on our blog and fanpage.

A wonderful and Gaian weekend to all of you!

Best,

Marius

Gaian.me, the open source network to celebrate the beauty of nature. Open for everyone who wants to join the positive movement to raise awareness for our planet, contribute digital art and more to an actively engaged international community.

With Gaian.me everyone can become a Gaian, equal if you are a designer and like to create beautiful art, a writer or journalist, musician, thinker or anything else. Everyone is invited to contribute their part to Gaia. This way all of us can create, find partners or talk about ideas for future releases of the Gaia Project. The best and favorite works out of our community will be presented in one beautiful art release. And we want you to join our team, helping to build this great place.

These are the positions and new team members we would love to welcome on board:

Community Manager for your country

Gallery Director to view and organize contributions to Gaian.me

Forum Administrators to lead our growing online forum

Video artist to create our welcome video for Gaian.me

Audio artists and musicians to create the music for our welcome video for Gaian.me

Journalists to work with our team on our Gaian Webcasts

Global Organizer if you enjoy and love to organize things

Funding Specialist if you enjoy to support our growing open source movement

If you want to find out more about one of these positions, please leave a comment or contact us at contact@gaia10.us. We look forward to welcome you on board! Not only you will be invited to our closed beta but also become an actively engaged Gaian of our movement. I am looking forward to hear from you soon and be sure you will get an answer from me this time!

Best,

Marius

Coalition of The Willing’ is a film that discusses how we can use new internet technologies to leverage the powers of activists, experts, and ordinary citizens in collaborative ventures to combat climate change. Through analyses of swarm activity and social revolution, ‘Coalition of the Willing’ makes a compelling case for the new online activism and explains how to bring the fight against global warming to the people. As the film tackles the subject of online activism, we decided that the logical home for ‘Coalition of The Willing’ is here online. Between the start of February and the beginning of June 2010, Coalition of the willing was released in sections onto this website. Groups of sections were released roughly every 2-3 weeks, with the final completed film going online at the start of June.

This un-conventional release strategy allowed us to build and engage with an audience whilst the film itself was being made. “coalitionfilm” has now become an online environmental brand in itself, with contributors Tweeting and Facebooking every day about issues discussed in the film; environmentalism, open source culture and swarm politics. See the links above to follow coalitionfilm. We are very glad to be with the Coalition and support the movement.

A special “Thank you” to Tim Rayner for the constant and ongoing conversation! Be sure you visit their great Coalitionblog for new updates and possible events in your area.