Reply To: Toshiba's "Micro Nuclear Reactor" – it's not fusion, but it's here now

[Rezwan]

Now that you mention it, we did set up a separate section for the DPF – it was supposed to be for actual DPF practitioners to discuss their work, and we wanted to restrict it from the rabble. We set up a site (densplasmafocus.org), and I see that in the upgrade of our CMS, I have yet to change the settings to direct it properly. Not quite sure how. It’s not a simple re-direct, there’s a php thingie, so it’s low on the backlog list.

It wasn’t getting much play, in any case. It needs a specific, committed person at the helm to run/manage/build it up, do outreach to the rest of the dpf community. Could you be that person? It’s a great thing to do! Very important for dpf technology. Sketch out a proposal of how you would run a “DPF society”.

What would a DPF society mission statement be? That’s one area we had trouble with. This was a focus fusion initiated site, so it has a ways to go to connect with the rest of the DPF community. We tried to set it up for academic posting and discussion – but folks are already “posting” in journals. It would actually take a bit of work to set something practical up. If the “client group” is the dpf community, you need something tailored to them, you need to interview them all, rank their preferences, etc. etc. What do they want in a site? What kind of community support do they want? To what end?

Outside the scope of our capacity.