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The Marspedia Editorial Subcommittee will have our first weekly Teleconference working session on the Zoom.US service, on Thursday 10/26 at 11am Eastern / 10am Central / 9am Mountain / 8am Pacific (3pm UTC).
Join the meeting, or dial in using one of the following US numbers (pick one close to you): +1 408 638 0968 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833 - the meeting passcode is 860 784 147 - International Numbers
We are using the When2Meet Service to select future meeting times.
Editorial Subcommittee meeting tomorrow AM (Thurs 10/26) 8am PDT, 11am EDT
James Burk is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Marspedia Editorial Subcommittee
Time: Oct 26, 2017 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 860 784 147
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Interesting, thanks clark
Yesterday we had the first meeting of the Marspedia Governing Council -- we officially formed the organization which puts Marspedia under the jurisdiction of the Mars Society's 501(c)(3) and allows us to solicit donations that are tax-deductible. Susan Martin (who is on the Mars Society Steering Committee and is a former Executive Director) and I were elected as Chair and Vice Chair, respectively. This means that there is now an official effort to improve the wiki with the involvement of the Mars Society, Moon Society and Mars Foundation, and we are taking the lead role. Very exciting!
We are moving forward quickly with forming Editorial and Technical subcommittees so we can plug in volunteers and make progress to move the wiki forward. More details are on the Marspedia wiki itself on these pages:
I would love to see people on New Mars Forums join either or both of these subcommittees. We need help!
The Technical Subcommittee will be using the Mars Society's Internet Task Force Slack application. Please email me to get an invite.
The Editorial Subcommittee will be meeting weekly using a teleconference service to have working sessions. Our first meeting will be this Thursday 10/26 at 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific. The details are on the page above. We will be using the When2Meet Service to determine future meeting times. Feel free to input your available times if you are interested in joining the subcommittee.
I updated http://telecon.marssociety.org just now with the new slides.
Haven’t forgotten about this but haven’t had time recently. Will get to it by EOY for sure
Points for anybody if they can remind us what “Liberum Olympia” is a reference to. Otherwise I’ll need to dig my Mars trilogy books out of storage.
I restored the New Mars Wiki last month for reference purposes. http://wiki.newmars.com
All new work is going into Marspedia
Does this forum still make sense? Maybe it does, as we will be putting a lot of new effort soon into Marspedia.org
Stay tuned for some announcements
That’s correct and guess who is moderating/facilitating the call?
Let me do some work on it, to fix the header and make the color scheme red and such. But yeah making it the default is prob a good idea.
I have uploaded the Victory theme, which seems to work great on Mobile. Here's how to use it:
1. Click "Profile" in the toolbar.
2. Click "Display" on the left navigation.
3. Using the "Styles" dropdown, select "Victory" and hit Submit button.
Enjoy!
Let me know if you run into any issues.
Working on this, should have an update today.
It looks like there is an unsupported skin called “Victory” that is responsive and allegedly works on the latest builds of FluxBB. I will install it and test it out this weekend.
Hi Josh,
As I mentioned in our email thread -- Yes, this is a good idea to make the forums better usable on Mobile. I will do some research on what is available for FluxBB themes and report back.
Also, regarding the contest, it has now been announced and will be called "Red Eagle"
Robert Zubrin described a debate he had with someone from NASA. He reported the NASA person claimed we don't have anything that can land 10 tons on Mars, so therefor we can't go to Mars. Robert Zubrin's argument was if we don't have a lander, then develop a lander. This competition derives from that. He wants university students to show-up NASA.
It was Dava Newman (who is no longer with NASA but was deputy administrator to Bolden) and it got quite heated.
Hi Edward,
If you are talking about the Telecon on Wednesday night, the video is posted here: http://telecon.marssociety.org
We will be having another one on Wednesday, October 11th, same time, so you can ask your question then!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mdrsphoto … 333643733/
This is my favorite one. Dana Melton (James' Melton's wife) was a sweetheart. They were on the JPL trip also. I invited them to come to Seattle sometime, I would give them a tour of Microsoft or Boeing.
Plus Zubrin looks like a teddy bear
Yes some of them are on Flickr and Facebook
This is a really old project; and nothing is happening for sure at Mars Society regarding this. Recommend we archive this forum. If nobody objects I will do that in the next month or so.
I WISH THIS FORUM HAD A CATEGORY JUST FOR MDRS/FMARS MISSION REPORTS
For Reports? Those are on the websites, we are not going to repost them here. But you can feel free to quote from them & discuss here.
Hi Jancy,
Please contact Shannon Rupert (srupert@marssociety.org) and mention you are an interested volunteer and what you are interested in working on. That also goes for anybody else reading this. We always need volunteers and we have open Work Parties at MDRS for the week before & after the field season. Email her but you can pretty much just show up at the hab then and help out however you can.
Thanks,
We are going to open up the main site (Newmars.com) to allow anybody to write an article.
I am working on two articles right now. One is a wrap-up of the convention, and the second is a report/narrative of what the JPL tour was like. Both will have lots of photos.
We need to recruit somebody to solicit new articles and post them. This person will have an "Editor"-type title and will get a Mars Society email account and official sanction. If you are interested please email me!
Also if you have an idea of article you could write, or somebody else could write, post it here.
This is moving forward. We are establishing a governing council right now with people from Mars Society, Moon Society, and Mars Foundation. We should be able to plug in volunteers in a couple weeks. This has a lot of momentum.