SpaceElevatorNextSteps

Brad talks to Vlada. Keith commits to 1 year @ 100k or $50 / hour.

Brad hears back on Industrial Nano.

Brad considers part time work on this, and how to balance this versus work on the book and his other things. Maybe you break your work up into 4 blocks! 25% this, 25% book, 25% bellevue, 25% industrial nano / Orlando / etc. This needs to be thought about. Doing this at the same time as the book is good because it gives you feedback that gives you enthusiasm to work on the book. And it could even be a research vehicle for your book!

Brad reads Keith's book and takes notes.

Brad finds some available URLs that he likes and puts them here:

Brad thinks about where there are some servers he'd like to consolidate.

Keith purchases domain, sets up server and creates wiki. (If the old wiki is available on the Internet, I can do a port of all the data over.)

Brad dumps all the simulations, spreadsheets etc he has scattered around into the wiki (even proprietary formats are fine for a start. I can help convert them.) Don't put the actual book text which you will want to update and sell. The wiki will be live with live numbers and live simulations, whereas the book will be a timeless, readable, high-level, linear snapshot.

Keith prefers to pay for wiki and help with wiki. Keith has ideas about the book and wants to read a new version, and thinks the book is important and can be a source of income and would be interested in helping with that, but wants to attempt to build a community that achieves critical mass and is doing real science. We are too small to afford to do fake things.

Brad thinks about the Open Dynamic Engine physics engine (C# wrappers are ODE.Net which are much better to program in) and other simulation tasks.

Brad installs OpenOffice 3.0 for mac: http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=macosxintelaquawjre&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0beta