IDEA 20090328 Overlap China

Overlap has been somewhat successful in generating projects and music in USA. What would it look like in China? The SugarJar store in 798 for example has loads of excellent experimental music, but no online outlet. Furthermore, loads of Chinese artists and musicians are making projects and code, but few are getting out of their houses. Is there a service that Overlap could offer to cater to the Chinese market.

While Overlap's primary goal right now is to scale up USA operations and make that successful, making a Chinese version of the website, and actively creating events in China would be interesting.

Liu Kai at Sugar Jar is interested in this project, and it should be easy to do. Its just a matter of time, interest, and money.

Currently, I think the highest priority for Overlap though is to make the website sustainable and the project fair and profitable.

If we were to make this, I would do this:


 * Identify and hire chinese overlap rep.
 * make overlap.org work with Chinese language at something like overlap.org/china or overlap.org/zh/
 * make online transactions work with Chinese language input
 * setup some targeted specific events in China
 * grow it!