August
2013
Design changes
You may have noticed the
new 'navigation feature' on the LongeCity frontpage. There are a few
other design changes planned in the coming weeks that will also affect
the forum. Last year, we couldn't quite find the right help to realize the design & art features we were pursuing, so we are trying a
simpler route for now.
But as always, we would be grateful to hear from
coders, artists and designers in the art
team forum.
New Columnist: Franco Cortese
LongeCity welcomes Franco Cortese as a regular columnist. In
his first piece, Franco takes critical look at the common notion
that death and finitude are the yardsticks that give meaning to human striving
and life.
Does
death give meaning to life?
If you are also interested in blogging at LongeCity or to write
for LongeCity, please get
in touch.
Private Groups
LongeCity has always been supportive of giving small groups
and teams tools to organize their communications and
activities. In this context, we are trialing a
new 'private groups' function. With this feature Members
and those they invite can create, administer and design their own groups and
forums.
This could be be used, for example, for
- organizing your local group or chapter
- project-specific forums for example for the recently popular 'group
buys'
- organizing an event or meeting
- creating 'elite' subject-specific forums that admits only selected
'experts'
The feature is still very much in trial stage, we are keen to hear feedback
and experiences from Members.
Current fundraisers & advertising: site
development
In anticipation of the above mentioned developments, we are running a
fundraiser for support of further developments of our website. Funds
will go towards new features, updates and bug fixes.
To this end we are also trying new adverting options. Users will have
found new 'ads' and 'banners' in various new places. These are mainly
served by external advertisement providers - please bear with us while
we try new relationships and placement options.
Also an experiment is the exposure given to a particular product -
currently 23&Me's genetic testing kit. LongeCity gets a small commission
for each kit sold via ads ran on our site. Since affordable genetic
testing to learn more about your own genetic makeup is very much aligned
with LongeCity's philosophy of grass-roots scientific engagement and awareness,
we thought it would be a good fit for many of our users.
However, this setup, like the others, is very much in a trial phase and
we are interested in your views. Some of it will make way for
promoting the 'large' fundraiser for the science project soon to
be announced:
LongeCity Science Funding
We are currently reviewing the submissions to our recent call
for proposals. The good news: in contrast to 'lean' 2012, we have
received a few viable submissions this year so there should definitely
be a 'large' fundraiser for science project announce soon!
Meanwhile, young and established scientists are encouraged to consider
our small
grants scheme and get registered on our database.
Reminders & Updates: Scientific References & Filesharing
LongeCity has so many tools and functionalities that it can be difficult
to remember or even to discover them all. And then there are a few rules
and conventions that make using the site more enjoyable and
useful.
We are planning to highlight some of these aspects in a regular
'reminders' feature.
This month: using
scientific references at LongeCity and sharing scientific papers for
joint research & study.
Caliban
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