Interview: Springleap.com on 2010 Soccer World Cup

Springleap.com is a crowd sourcing company currently embracing the fire set alight by the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Springleap.com runs a new themed t-shirt design competition every two weeks and at the moment the competition been voted on is called “Football Fever”. The designs received by the current community have been astoundingly good. You can access competition on: http://www.springleap.com/designs/vote

1. The url to the design brief that was followed to enter the competition:
http://www.springleap.com/posts/view/football-fever

2. Who owns the blog?
Springleap.com

3. How many people contribute content on the blog?
The Springleap.com staff, the designers who entered the competition and the general public who vote and comment to choose the winning t-shirt design.

4. Is this a business operation or a hubby?
A business and young designers empowerment operation.

5. How is it monetized?
Through sales of winning t-shirt designs (Yep, we print and sell the winning t-shirt in EVERY competition we crowd source).

6. How do you follow the build up to 2010 in South Africa?
By running competitions like the current one and were really close to the action in Cape Town.

7. What do you think of Bafana’s readiness?
Bafana Bafana have shown us all that they can compete on an international level. Viva South African football. (stop sounding politically correct, Bafana Bafana hasn’t done the country any proud in recent months, I’m glad that Santana has been shown the exist door – Muzi Mohale)

8. Do you know where your country will be based in South Africa?

9. Would you like to collaborate with a South African based soccer blogger?
Absolutely, we hope that South African bloggers will embrace the inter linkage of crowd sourcing and football on Springleap.com. We hope that the winning t-shirt design of the Football Fever competition is received by all as a great South African creation in celebration of the very exciting FIFA 2010 World Cup.

10. What are you worries about the event being staged in South Africa?
That the infrastructure of our cities may become extremely crowded and that our public transport systems aren’t organised well enough.