Open Source Space Opera

As I've been kicking off Fleeting Moments an idea has come to me. The way that I'm writing this - ad - hoc with notes on some underlying ideas; struck that perhaps this is a very shareable experience. If something can be shared why see what opens when sharing is taken to a logical end. So I've come up with the idea of Open Source Space Opera. The idea being that various writers, artists and commentators all create and share a common pool of material from which individual stories and lines of stories can be written based on what I would become a rich pool of mythos. In some ways this is not unlike the shared universe anthologies that has been published in the past. The difference here is that everything is community developed.

To kick start this process I've created a discussion forum over at http://thespaceopera.17.freebb.com/ where those interest can start to share ideas and stories

Of course the subject of copyright will rear it's head, and some sort of license will be needed. Possibly one of the common copyright licences, for the moment I'm saying this. All material remains the copyright of it's creator. Materials marked as being for the common good can be reused by any member of the community

I don't know how this will work - let's hope it does and it is interesting