Funding for research, and forming groups
we all seem to be short on funds, and I understand that doing things cheap is part of the ideology but if we want to make real progress I think real, expensive, R&D and to that you need funds I haven't seen anyone try to apply for grants, start a Kickstarter, or anything else similar to that so my question is why not and if you all would be interested in forming either a non-profit, company, or
these are all groups that grants.gov awards grants to I have been looking for individual grants for about a month now and there are none for things useful to the world of biohacking. But for groups it's another story heck becoming a group is good for plenty of other reasons too
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That said, I think a better, more immediate solution, though it is one that requires a certain level of trust, is a thread for approved people (the trustworthy ones) to post requests for physical things needed for projects they're working on. And then people could sort of donate to specific projects. Sort of like a micro Kickstarter, or other crowd-source website. And potentially other people not on the "trusted" list could sort of petition their project to the "trusted" people, and one or more of the trusted people could sort of "claim" that other person's project. Sponsoring it on the projects list. Of course, there needs to be a way to get on this "trusted" list. Some set of requirements like time on the forum, activity, proof of other project work, sort of to show commitment since these "donations" couldn't easily be taken back. I also think it'd be best if any sponsored projects didn't directly receive donation funds, rather the donation funds were received by the sponsor, who then purchased materials on behalf of the project creator.
For organizational reasons, I'd do it with a thread where the original post is a list of Trusted People, their projects, and links to the respective forum threads. And a similar list for sponsored projects. That works best of course if the post can be edited by any of the trusted members. Don't know if Vanilla allows multi-user editing on a forum post without just making everyone a moderator. So, maybe a Wiki page would be better.
I think I explained all that well, if it needs clarifying, let me know.