[news] ZeMarmot funding's last hours

[Jehan <jehan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We had an awesome funding experience, but this is not finished. First 
because we still have a few hours left, so if you were planning on 
contributing and simply waiting for the last second, now is the time! 
Also because this is only the start of ZeMarmot adventure. With what we 
have funded, we are going to release the beginning of the movie in a few 
months, which we hope you will enjoy, then decide to continue 
supporting, financially or otherwise.

As of now we have 327 awesome funders from 36 countries, from the 
smaller amounts to the bigger ones (1000 €). Amongst our Silver 
Sponsors, 2 organizations officially support our project: apertus° (the 
first OpenHardware cinema camera makers: http://apertus.org/) and 
Laboratorio Bambara (a research group on audiovisual art: 
http://laboratorio.bambarazinema.com/).
Our first ever Silver sponsor was Mike Linksvayer, former executive 
director of Creative Commons. We can also count Terry Hancock, Free 
Software Magazine columnist and director of the Open animation serie 
"Lunatics", among our funders, and other contributors from well known 
Free Software or Free Knowledge projects: a long time GIMP developer, 
Simon Budig; a Mozilla employee, Xionox; a Creative Commons employee 
himself on a movie adventure too, Matt Lee; GCompris maintainer, Bruno 
Coudoin… And I'm sure I missed a lot of people.
Also several teachers from various universities, even a bookstore (À 
Livr'Ouvert) backing us officially, fellow artists, some using Free 
Software (like Tepee: http://www.tepee.me/), people from the cinema 
industry (an executive producer for instance).

Of course the GIMP (gimp.org) project has been supporting our project, 
as well as Libre Graphics World 
(http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/zemarmot-open-animated-movie-to-be-made-with-gimp-blender-ardour), 
reference for Free Arts-related news, BlenderNation 
(http://www.blendernation.com/2015/06/07/meeting-with-a-marmot/), 
linuxfr (French-speaking Free Software news: 
http://linuxfr.org/news/financement-collaboratif-du-film-d-animation-libre-zemarmot), 
Framasoft 
(http://framablog.org/2015/05/04/la-marmotte-veut-le-chocolat-et-largent-du-chocolat/), 
GIMPUsers 
(http://www.gimpusers.com/news/00515-zemarmot-open-animation-film), the 
VLC project, and so many others.
We were also featured in wider audience French news website as Numera 
(http://www.numerama.com/magazine/33259-zemarmot-fait-appel-aux-internautes-pour-son-film-d-animation-libre.html) 
and Reflets 
(https://reflets.info/un-film-danimation-2d-entierement-realise-avec-des-logiciels-libres/), 
and even in television on TV5World 
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWPTKmhB6M), and twice on French FM 
radio.

Tristan Nitot (former president of Mozilla Europe, now Cozy Cloud Chief 
Product Officer), Free Software foundation, Creative Commons shared our 
project on various social networks or blogs…

Ton Roosendaal, Blender Foundation chairman, called our initiative "a 
Libre movie project with the right spirit".

Now I'm just name-dropping. That's because we were impressed by all this 
support. Yet let me be clear: you are all as important to us! Everyone 
of you. You show us that Libre Art, independent films and Free Software 
are cool and have a chance. Because seas are made of each drops.
We love you all.

ZeMarmot team