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Edit: thinking about it, this could be a double edged sword. It would open up legal liability. Is there anyway this could be minimized? I'd love to contribute to others' projects, but I don't want to be held liable if the project explodes in somebody's face. And I don't want anybody consulting on my projects, whenever I get around to doing them, fearing legal repercussions.
@Oak I'm wary of adding polls for multiple reasons, least of which is its reduction of discourse to numbers.
@Unqualified A preview button is available when creating a new post. A preview button for comments might have to be hacked in.
@Ffaway This could be troublesome legally, even with biohack.me's draft disclaimer.
@SovereignBleak
I think that this could be really cool if the legal issues could be side steped, maybe if we were to only speak about projects in hypotheticals? "If I were going to install this, I'd probably use XXXX instead of XXXX, hypothetically of course." I don't know if this would avoid the legal issues, it'd be something to look into.
I'm not a lawyer; I don't know how many restrictions we need to put upon discourse and I'd prefer not to. We have a draft disclaimer that has yet to go site-wide but I don't know if that protects an individual from writing whatever she wants. If anyone has access to a legal, get in touch with me.
@Fantomex I open new categories by appeal to my email, sovereign.bleak AT biohack.me, or when I think it's needed, like when @Lukas and his gene-modders joined us or when the first haptics post went up. The fastest method to getting a category opened up is to just post under Other.
1. All information/advice given by member is considered a "wiki" type response and not a professional opinion. Nobody on ask.com is getting sued for their responses as far as I know.
2. Any paid work (amateur or professional engineering, surgery, etc.) should be conducted off-site.
3. Services should not be actively solicited on the site. For example, You wouldn't want a member to post something that said "Have scalpel, will travel, $100". It would be fine for that member to post something in response to another member with wording like "contact me via email to discuss details on how I might be able to help you with a procedure".
I can't think of a reason not to proceed with a human resource list. It would also help us to identify potential strategic recruitment areas.
~Ian
1) Rather than having one person controlling the blog, we can "add" several people to it, so they don't have to email one person to post something on it
2) You don't, however, have to give everyone on the blog admin privileges. One person (usually the founder) is the "admin," and he can then add "co-admins" but not everyone added to the blog has to be registered as a co-admin. In this way, we can give several people the ability to post to the blog, but only a couple will have admin privileges.
3) Google is pretty good about maintaining their site. I used to have a blog on MySpace, but when they went through system maintenance last year, all my comments were deleted. Google, meanwhile, has undergone maintenance several times since I created an account there, with no problems whatsoever.
I would also suggest that, since we already have @Jack controlling the DNS for this site, and @lichen having created the chatroom, and someone completely different having created the Facebook group, we should have someone else create and maintain the blog.
~Ian
Take a look at http://www.eevblog.com/2011/01/17/eevblog-139-lets-select-a-dc-dc-boost-converter/ for hints.
~Ian
~Ian
~Ian
Ah, I should have realized that. I've actually got a couple things to contribute, so I'll do that in about a day or two.
Although, I still submit that a blog in which we can have multiple "authors" (such as that provided by blogspot) rather than having to submit something to a single administrator would be pragmatically more beneficial, but I can certainly live with this format.
~Ian
~Ian
Does anyone else here have a linkedin account? They have a project app that is pretty straightforward. I could make a group there if nobody objects.