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At long last, a post on jewelry is up on the website. Check it out! https://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/aneutronic_jewelry

Also, Steven, if you are up for it, you should set up a widget for the sale of the jewelry you had designed. I think the way to handle it is to have a widget featuring the jewelry and how a portion of sales is donated to us.

In any case, I’d love to see more fusion jewelry options out there. Thanks for all your inspiring emails.

As to the vehicle for donation, as you see, we have signed up as a charity on E-bay and are waiting to hear back from Google. So – if there’s a way to sell in Australia and donate via ebay or google, that would be cool.

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By all means, take off in unexpected directions. I’m a big fan of lateral thinking : )

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Also, “intern” isn’t synonymous with slave labor. We’d have to be more established to have interns. Discussion here.

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Breakable wrote: If we wont have access to a large team of full-time developers at our disposal any results would probably be marginal or would take a lot of time to materialize so the ideas need to be extremely simple to produce something.

The plan is to get access to, to inspire, to assemble a large team. In the meantime, to encourage simple ideas.

Remember, we’re trying to show people how much there is to do on behalf of fusion, how many jobs there would be to create for the advancement of fusion – how many different ways people can make a difference in the pursuit of fusion.

The point is not for us to supply a product. This is the “showing the need” phase. Showing the space for action and collaboration.

Don’t take it upon yourself to fulfill the need. We’re putting together the company. Assembling the interested. If there isn’t interest, it simply won’t get done.

I suspect there is interest.

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Yes! This is great. Thanks!

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And I should have put some sort of disclaimer in there. I wrote “design seems sound” to be tentative. The full report will have a much clearer picture.

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Wow, Brian (NBF) is quick. I Facebook/tweeted the line about the 45kv on Tuesday (” the new switches fired at 45kV yesterday. The design seems sound. Analysis continues today.”) and he’s gone ahead and written up an analysis putting that info together with previous posts.

We’re still waiting for the full analysis and report from LPP – more facts – how many times firing? Any mishaps, what about gas pressure, and all those things.

FYI, follow us on twitter or Facebook – it’s easier to publish info quickly there – the website is for the in depth info.

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So I signed us up on gameful: http://gameful.org/members/focusfusion/

Now we can start collaborating on games.

Interesting stuff on that site. http://www.wintheplanet.com/

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I’m going to install a widget to allow people to use their facebook accounts to register with us. And I just got a coupon for $50 adverstising, so once that’s set up, we could try a bit of advertising.

Of course, I still have a few forum issues to deal with. The upgrade has some bugs.:coolcheese:

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delt0r wrote: If i was going to bet on a dark horse to win the fusion race, it would be GF. There are some papers around too if you look around. Don’t have my references handy.

Can you get those references handy and draft an article for our “contenders” section? That would be great!

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Which brings me back to the chorus: we need more members! This content ain’t gonna write itself. Members can do a lot of this work (once we set things up better to facilitate that) or can fund others doing the work; and bigger member numbers impresses foundations who may in turn fund us so we can hire people to do a lot of this work, to edit and facilitate the work of the crowd, to improve the platform to get the thing humming in a self-sustaining way.

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Indeed it is!

That’s my point. Y’all can fill it! (Although my other point is that I’m thinking Media Wiki would be a better wiki to use for this purpose.)

We’re looking into hiring someone full time for that sort of research and content development. (Which means we’re looking for funding). We’re working on that, because it’s an important part of the mission. Education and outreach. In the mean time, and in any case, there needs to be a large crowd sourcing of this type of effort – to track down all the info. So the other thing we’re trying to set up is a better website to coordinate this all, a process to both streamline and expand; capture and clarify; improve the information signal.

FYI, I also set up the “Contenders” section for following fusion projects in general.

And we have an “Other aneutronic” section – but it would be nice if members were tracking down the info, sticking it in the wiki, and we could just use that section to connect people to the wiki – and also to then develop channels for each experiment to track news as it becomes public.

Backlog. Apologies. Understaffed : )

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Ah. Now looking back on it, I see the other reason I stalled. I became overambitious. The page for the multiple experiments is here: https://focusfusion.org/index.php/wiki/Catalog_of_Experiments/

Might not make sense to you, but it fits into this whole “dynamic information updated in real time” idea I had, where we’d feed project data in real time to each device –

Need to keep it simple : )

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Great idea!

This is something to crowd source. We want something like this for our education materials (our “fusion knowledge map”), but compiling it is labor intensive.

A while ago I set up a wiki – https://focusfusion.org/index.php/wiki – feel free to start putting a rough sketch of what you want up there. Doesn’t hurt to start compiling the info! And we can use all the help we can get!

I am thinking of switching to “mediawiki” for this instead, so we can wikifarm and so that the protocol is more standardized with other major wikis (requiring less formatting and being more transferrable). This requires a bit of an upgrade on our server.

Our present wiki can also be upgraded to work with moveable type but seems more limited. Although it would be better integrated into this site. We need to make a decision soon. Website upgrade for crowd-sourcing of knowledge map is a top priority.

Suggestions?

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JShell wrote: I like the idea of having a form letter that volunteers can send to journalists, editors, publicists, professors, their friends, anyone– I feel like the more we can get our name out there, the better–

The board process we’re going through now, of clarifying the mission, and the strategic planning for clarifying the programs – will result in materials and a clear message that we then make available for members and volunteers to spread far and wide.

The key is to clarify our information/purpose/materials at the core and put out regular messages that make it clear what actions would be useful.

Core + members.

Also, LPP has its own press releases that it has issued from time to time. On those occasions when members repost – we get a lot more interest/traffic/etc.

I think its interesting that FFS has a much more public/cooperative approach than almost any other fusion organization . . .

Do you mean LPP?

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