Over the years Resurgere has worked as a Team and built a strong brand and a wide fan base, becoming one of the major resource supplying accounts on D.A.. As a charity project the team has a responsibility to leverage it's reputation and audience in the best interests of all the artists at D.A., both resource consumers and resource producers. We have decided the way to meet the obligation to our community here is to distribute 'guest contributions' in addition to team member resources. Making Resurgere more active and more diverse, offering the chance of participation to more people. Effectively, to change from a resource group to a resource movement.

Team membership will still be available, but that long term commitment has always come with very high standards and many requirements for applicants to meet, meaning few can join... In contrast the short term commitment of a guest contributor, package by package, means the entry barriers are far lower. Of course our standards will apply to the resources going into your guest package, if you have stock that can meet the standards and is a good fit for our gallery then you are welcome to contribute. Keep in mind this standard is still high, we want to distribute your best and D.A.'s best, many contributions will not make the cut in either quality or compatibility to the gallery. So far we have approved only a small minority of offers, sadly the rest we have had to decline. Nonetheless this new policy will give far more people the opportunity to be a part of Resurgere, which will be good for guests and fans.

The benefits of this policy for all the fans are obvious—more packages from Resurgere with even wider range of subjects from more diverse producers and the same high quality as always. Already the Legion has produce fine packages like these,

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*If you don't have a stock account, you can distribute your resources through Resurgere to a huge audience, and avoid having to deal with the hassle of running your own stock account and building your own fan base. Help support your fellow artists get closer to fulfilling their creative vision by sharing your unique resources with them. Donating your time and stock to needy strangers is charity; the biggest benefit of participating in the Resource section is the satisfaction from giving back to your community.

*If you already have a stock account, we would still like to help you reach a wider audience. Promote your own stock account by submitting a package of your best work to Resurgere, so our eleven-thousand plus devwatchers become aware of all that you have to offer.

*All the packaging and image processing and uploading and grunt work is done by Resurgere Curators, send in your resources and description and we handle all the work from there.

*Opportunity to use the "Related Prints" field in your package description to promote a few of your prints, as long as they are related to the stock in that package of course.

*Full credit to you as the producer on the package and each image, links back to your D.A. account, copyright of the resources stays in your hands obviously.

*All the stock we submit to D.A. is restricted, licensed under Resurgere's Terms of Use, which prohibits any user putting your stock to commercial purposes without your written permission, but allows users to put the stock to noncommercial purposes under set conditions.

*Opt out anytime, if you decide for any reason you don't want to participate any longer all the stock you submitted will be taken offline out of The Collection, no hard feelings.

Joining procedure; First Note us to express your offer, tell us what you want to contribute and if posable provide samples. Samples, not full sized resources. Then staff will consider your offer and respond by approving your offer, declining your offer, or asking for clarification and more samples. If approved, we will explain the requirements for contribution [such as legal matters] and explain the full procedure [such as how the resources will be branded], if that is all acceptable to you, we will then give you instructions on where and how to email your resources. We can only accept resources that has followed this process of review, discloser, agreement, and file transfer.

Our staff is probably going to get overwhelmed once offers start marching in, so first come first served. We will update this journal with any changes as things more forward and evolve. The project is just starting out, but the team has already seen that from humble beginnings can come greatness, [just as stock turns to art]. We are sure the Legion will grow in time to a size deserving that name. We look forward to working towards that goal with the support of our fans and guests.

Update* Aug6; Things are moving along nicely Lots of good stock and good offers already, more guests to come as we have a lot of good stock pending. As expected, we are all really damn busy reviewing stock and dealing with contribution notes. So everything is smooth, just got a pkg by `thespook which kicks all ass, if you put that stuff on skin it's pretty magic, dark artists are going to love it. Only problem at the legion so far is dealing with explaining what a declined offer really means and that it's not a sign of disrespect for the artists in question, though in other cases people have got what we mean and take the declined note really coolly. We hope to clear this up soon, might have to draft in some writing help from the Lit section [laughs] Would a declining letter in haiku go over well?... We are also busy headhunting for new people to invite, who do you think would be good? If there is any artist you want to see stock from, let us know, maybe it'll happen.