Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

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Trying to get funding for small things is a good idea. Each person considering donating will feel that they would achieve more and so be more willing to cough up, and then you’re further on and future donations will seem more valuable to people.

I think it would be really important, in any system, to document what’s happening much better.

It would be good for confidence if we could hear more about the people involved, where work is being done, what equipment is being used, how it will be modified, what is being done and when, what meetings are held (vlogs of the non-confidential parts of meetings?). If the FFS people could start blogging in some detail (what is the nature of the theoretical work, what are the computer programs that implement the simulations, how are the chilian labs organised, how much lab time is spent on focus fusion, etc) and link that to what funding is needed I think it would make pledging much more popular.

It would build an easily accessible media base to build up some buzz.