Dear Freeciv, Apologies for the cross-posting. We are working on a prototype platform for a non-profit, massive online open research, here is the preview: http://youtu.be/mknNqS9-niQ
So what is it? Is basically Civ. Except that when constructing a new building, you are starting a real scientific project somewhere in the World. When your building is finished, you created a new gadget, technology or discovery. For real. Or maybe you went for a windmill or engine, which means that you are actively harvesting computer power for solving current problems in science such as SETI@home, fold.it, etc. Blew your mind? We know. It epitomizes what we have been playing for years and the future of citizen science. There are few people in the world which can appreciate and envision the consequences of such a non-governmental, non-industry oriented online research system which is both entertaining and an ideal networking platform. We are working with most of them. And I am confident you are also one. So before launching the fundraising campaign for such a freeciv-like platform encompassing facebook, kickstarter, citizen science and volunteer computing we wanted to have your permission/support with the following points. 1- We need a Civ-like html5-compatible engine for a proof of principle during our fundraising. For this, we wanted to modify free-civ web using our original world and game designs. Again, we are a non-profit and this does not mean that the final scikick.org interface will necessarily use any version of freeciv-web. 2- We not only wanted to give respectful credit to freeciv during our fundraiser, but also to have you as one of our sponsors/partners. We have so far only two of them. The BOINC project (UC Berkeley) and the Eterna project (Stanford). -- We are collecting support from related projects before we start doing so from established non-profit organizations. Let me know your decision and thanks for your reply / poss. interest in this matter. Regards, CA -- Carlos-Andres Palma, PhD Physik-Department E20 Technische Universität München James-Franck-Straße 1 D-85748 Garching +49 (0)892 891 2618 http://www.e20.ph.tum.de/en/start/ http://www.molecular-engineering.com Scikick.org: A massive online open research platform 2053 Oregon St. Berkeley CA +1 510 705 2303 http://www.scikick.org
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