[FRIAM] Fwd: Project Update #21: ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources
In case you'd like to have a last chance at the Arkyd kickstarter .. to send an educational space telescope into orbit .. they are allowing further pledges even tho they successfully met their target. Amazingly, they are apparently among the 25 top kickstarters to date. -- Owen -- Forwarded message -- From: Kickstarter no-re...@kickstarter.com Date: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:52 PM Subject: Project Update #21: ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone by Planetary Resources To: o...@backspaces.net Project Update #21: THANK YOU! WE DID IT! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0/posts/525952?ref=emailshow_token=94eb16395b0711f4 Posted by Planetary Resources [image: Like]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0/posts/525952?ref=emailshow_token=94eb16395b0711f4#modal_dialog:facebook-like-dialog *Thanks to you: The ARKYD and ASTEROID ZOO are GO! * We are absolutely moved beyond words to be starting this journey with you. ARKYD is now one of *the TOP 25 Kickstarters of all time*. Many doubted that a space kickstarter could succeed at this level. YOU have shown that together we can make space exploration something you actively join, not merely passively watch. We are humbled and honored to bring this community together. If you missed it, or to re-live the moment, view our four-hour finale here (Trivia with Bill Nye, Tesla cannon wounds, dunks in the dunk tank, and all): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8gyBQrNPOgfeature=youtu.bet=1m25s What Happens Now? http://youtu.be/YQZYpyhPah0 *We take you with us, all the way to orbit.* The actual voyage to the stars (and the real hard work) continues. Our team is making swift progress building our test spacecraft A3 and the ARKYD. We are also bringing together all the science centers, research institutions, and schools in the new ARKYD network to define the best research and education paths forward. We’re here to support you and continue spreading the inspiration with you. Join the conversation on our Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/PlanetaryResourcesInc. *Pledge Funding* You should have received an email from Kickstarter saying we’re funded! If there were issues processing your payment, you have one week to fix them for your pledge to go through. More details on Kickstarter’s FAQhttp://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions#faq_41779 . *Surveys* Once we’ve finalized pledge funding and organized our backer database, we’ll start sending out surveys so we can get you rewards and recognition for a job done historically well! Given the nature of the ARKYD project, that’s going to take some time, so we appreciate your patience! Don’t worry! We’ll let you know as soon as the time comes. *Missed the Campaign?* The Campaign is over, but many of you have asked for another chance at the rewards, so we’re considering offering a limit set of rewards to choose from. If you or someone you know missed out on the Kickstarter campaign, but would still like to pledge, simply visit: * http://www.planetaryresources.com/kickstarter* and follow the instructions. We can’t fully express how grateful we are for the support we’ve received over the last month. To be able to make the ARKYD a reality is truly a world-changing, dream come true — and it’s all because of YOUR support. We look forward to continuing this amazing adventure with all of you! Thanks for helping invent the future with us! — Chris and The ARKYD Team *Care to comment?* View this update on Kickstarter → http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0/posts/525952?ref=emailshow_token=94eb16395b0711f4 Want to get these notifications straight to your phone? Get the Kickstarter app for iPhone.http://www.kickstarter.com/download?ref=email Unsubscribe from this project's updates with one clickhttp://www.kickstarter.com/unsubscribe/BAh7B0kiCHVpZAY6BkVGaQNlYVVJIgtleHBpcnkGOwBGSSIYMjAxMy0wOC0wMSAwNTo1Mjo1NgY7AEY%3D--3747c36ec5647ea457de2d7e85a448bb2966d677/9579676?ref=email KICKSTARTER http://www.kickstarter.com/?ref=email FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] travle tips?
Dear Gillian, I started in Bhutan, then Oslo, then Stockholm (all work-related so I really needed my bag to arrive!), and now I'm in the Minneapolis airport on my last leg home to Santa Fe. Piece of cake! Trick is to pack lightly (you'll need a raincoat in Seattle) and if you're going to check a bag put everything in it that could cause a problem. There's a terrific direct flight from Albuquerque to Seattle on Southwest Airlines--( I'm not sure where you are starting from). They won't lose your luggage--and checking your bag is free on Southwest. Good luck! On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Pamela McCorduck pam...@well.com wrote: Gillilan, I've never had a problem with Advil (in its OTC) container, nor with prescription drugs. But then I'm an elderly white woman traveler, so they mostly don't bother me. I brought my laptop in my carry-on this last trip, and totally through forgetfulness, forgot to pull it out at LaGuardia for inspection. Nobody noticed, and it sailed through fine. The change of clothes (really, only underclothing) is because if you're making a switch en route, bags can get lost. When that happens, it might take a while for the system to find your suitcase and return it to you. A while might equal a day or two. Last time that happened to me was NYC - Berlin, and the mistake apparently happened in Frankfurt. I got my bag the next morning in Berlin. If this happens, the airline will usually supply you with toilet articles, and in my case, I even got a tee shirt from Lufthansa to sleep in. It's things like contact lens cases, must-have daily meds, that you ought to carry with you. TSA prefers you to carry those meds in their prescription bottles. If you're Jane Fonda, even that doesn't help. Throw an umbrella in your suitcase, and you'll enjoy yourself very much in Seattle. Pamela On Jun 30, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: Hi all! I'll be traveling to see my aunt in seatle start of august- looking forward to it- but I thought I'd ping the FRIAM mailing list- for having things go as smoothly as possible. What should I expect? How (in practice) does one go about taking some prescribed stuff with them and OTC with them? I ask because I read a article by the economist written in 012 says that both prescribed meds and OTC's (such as asprin) it said for colledge students unsual smelling powders and uncolored powders or pills must be labled- So asprin needs to be in a bottle that says--asprin? (I ask because I have off/on back issues) It also recomends puting a change of clothes in a carry on- So does that meen a note saying: those happy pills are ok (for example)? Other things I should keep in mind to have a enjoyable experience? FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com Bounded Rationality, by Pamela McCorduck, the second novel in the series, Santa Fe Stories, Sunstone Press, is now available both as ink-on-paper and as an e-book. The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. -- Jane Austen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA me...@emergentdiplomacy.org mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merlelefkoff FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] LitHive - Agile Publishing
I thought some of the authors on the list might get a kick out of this: http://lithive.com/ Write, Publish, and Connect Work solo or in a team to publish books, anthologies and periodicals and to create Hives to connect writers, editors, publishers, and readers. Learn more or visit our FAQ. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. -- H.L. Mencken FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] JavaScript GUI Libraries
I'm starting to develop (as an unpaid volunteer) an application for the local medical clinic, and I'd like to deploy it as a browser application (rich internet app). Of course, I cold just use plain old HTML and CSS, but I'd like it to be much more interactive, basically like a desktop application. It would seem the best (for some definition of good :-) technology for the job would be JavaScript on the front-end (although I could do it in Java with Swing or JavaFX and deliver it as a JNLP app). Anyway, does anyone here have any preferences for a GUI toolkit for JavaScript? So far, I've been looking at Dojo, JQuery, YUI, Ext JS, and the Google Closure library. As I'm pretty new to the whole JS world, I'm thoroughly confused (maybe that means that I'm on the right track :-). I'd really appreciate feedback. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] JavaScript GUI Libraries
One thing to consider is mobile .. i.e. do you want this to work across a wide range of devices: phones, tablets, laptops etc. If so, you'll need to consider various options for responsive design, .. i.e a design that automatically adjusts to the device and its screen size. Ditto for touch vs mouse (good libraries for that). If not, there are a few of us (Ben L. for example) who've used Angular for a nice interface, including event binding and UI elements .. which he integrated with Firebase (a web service syncing events and JSON data across devices, very cool indeed). You'll also need to consider the whole client/server thing .. how much do you want to do on the client vs how much on the server. I've been amazed recently how nifty nodejs is. I've had to use it for desktop use recently, and am surprised how sophisticated it is. Ex: I've replaced Make with Cake (a coffeescript/node stunt that gives you pretty nice workflow tools). DB, an issue, right? Firebase can help for fairly simply DBish tasks .. think of JSON in the cloud. SimTable is successfully using it. And there is a Node/CouchDB library. Finally, if you really want to go hyper modern, consider JS all the way. And a good tool is CoffeeScript which compiles down to JS and is completely integrated into Node. Your code size (Lines of Code) will be about 1/3 native JS. -- Owen On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.comwrote: I'm starting to develop (as an unpaid volunteer) an application for the local medical clinic, and I'd like to deploy it as a browser application (rich internet app). Of course, I cold just use plain old HTML and CSS, but I'd like it to be much more interactive, basically like a desktop application. It would seem the best (for some definition of good :-) technology for the job would be JavaScript on the front-end (although I could do it in Java with Swing or JavaFX and deliver it as a JNLP app). Anyway, does anyone here have any preferences for a GUI toolkit for JavaScript? So far, I've been looking at Dojo, JQuery, YUI, Ext JS, and the Google Closure library. As I'm pretty new to the whole JS world, I'm thoroughly confused (maybe that means that I'm on the right track :-). I'd really appreciate feedback. ___ Wedtech mailing list wedt...@redfish.com http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/wedtech_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] JavaScript GUI Libraries
With Javascript, you have the DOM built in. Which means your GUI elements are all the stuff available in HTML (eg HTML5 canvas), but dynamically driven from Javascript. The only slight gotcha is that browsers tend to implement slightly incompatible versions of HTML, so lots of testing is needed. Cheers On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:11:57PM -0500, Gary Schiltz wrote: I'm starting to develop (as an unpaid volunteer) an application for the local medical clinic, and I'd like to deploy it as a browser application (rich internet app). Of course, I cold just use plain old HTML and CSS, but I'd like it to be much more interactive, basically like a desktop application. It would seem the best (for some definition of good :-) technology for the job would be JavaScript on the front-end (although I could do it in Java with Swing or JavaFX and deliver it as a JNLP app). Anyway, does anyone here have any preferences for a GUI toolkit for JavaScript? So far, I've been looking at Dojo, JQuery, YUI, Ext JS, and the Google Closure library. As I'm pretty new to the whole JS world, I'm thoroughly confused (maybe that means that I'm on the right track :-). I'd really appreciate feedback. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] [WedTech] JavaScript GUI Libraries
Then you might consider who's going to maintain it when your not available and what level of skill may be needed. Esoteric and cool is... well esoteric and cool. Pragmatic and well worn and well known might lead you to consider more mundane but well used tools especially on the server side like PHP and MySQL and perhaps WordPress and the thousands of themes and plugins. Many WP themes are responsive/mobile friendly right out of the box saving tons of work - some premium some free. Thanks Robert C On 7/1/13 9:11 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: One thing to consider is mobile .. i.e. do you want this to work across a wide range of devices: phones, tablets, laptops etc. If so, you'll need to consider various options for responsive design, .. i.e a design that automatically adjusts to the device and its screen size. Ditto for touch vs mouse (good libraries for that). If not, there are a few of us (Ben L. for example) who've used Angular for a nice interface, including event binding and UI elements .. which he integrated with Firebase (a web service syncing events and JSON data across devices, very cool indeed). You'll also need to consider the whole client/server thing .. how much do you want to do on the client vs how much on the server. I've been amazed recently how nifty nodejs is. I've had to use it for desktop use recently, and am surprised how sophisticated it is. Ex: I've replaced Make with Cake (a coffeescript/node stunt that gives you pretty nice workflow tools). DB, an issue, right? Firebase can help for fairly simply DBish tasks .. think of JSON in the cloud. SimTable is successfully using it. And there is a Node/CouchDB library. Finally, if you really want to go hyper modern, consider JS all the way. And a good tool is CoffeeScript which compiles down to JS and is completely integrated into Node. Your code size (Lines of Code) will be about 1/3 native JS. -- Owen On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.com mailto:g...@naturesvisualarts.com wrote: I'm starting to develop (as an unpaid volunteer) an application for the local medical clinic, and I'd like to deploy it as a browser application (rich internet app). Of course, I cold just use plain old HTML and CSS, but I'd like it to be much more interactive, basically like a desktop application. It would seem the best (for some definition of good :-) technology for the job would be JavaScript on the front-end (although I could do it in Java with Swing or JavaFX and deliver it as a JNLP app). Anyway, does anyone here have any preferences for a GUI toolkit for JavaScript? So far, I've been looking at Dojo, JQuery, YUI, Ext JS, and the Google Closure library. As I'm pretty new to the whole JS world, I'm thoroughly confused (maybe that means that I'm on the right track :-). I'd really appreciate feedback. ___ Wedtech mailing list wedt...@redfish.com mailto:wedt...@redfish.com http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/wedtech_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
