[Hplusroadmap] Post over at the Immortality Institute

[Dan Bolser]

On 05/02/2008, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was talking with the immortalists last night and posted a thread:
> http://www.imminst.org/forum/Open-source-DIY-biohacking-kit-t20226.html
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I am participating in the chat in the background re: stem cells, and
> > realize that the ImmInst community does not know about my latest
> > project. It's over at http://biohack.sf.net. Synopsis: Join the fight
> > against diseases, aging and death -- while also doing some other
> > really awesome projects in the process.
> >
> > The goal of the project is to collect as much information on synthetic
> > biology and DIY biotech as possible. This means gene therapy, genetic
> > engineering, biobricks, stem cell therapy, organogenesis, tissue
> > engineering, etc. (Soon we will be sharing genes, digitally). It
> > contains loads of experiments, protocols and explanations as well as
> > cached copies of important websites out there on the internet. There's
> > also a mailing list and community growing around it.
> >
> > The website was even featured on MAKE last Friday. So things are going
> > well. I hope to hear from ImmInst members about what they think of the
> > project and whether or not any would like to help.
> >
> > - Bryan
>
> One of the responses from a "dr_chaos":
> > I downloaded the zip file and was not amused. Too chaotic for my taste
> > and many of the html files are very hard to read. Furthermore a zip
> > archive with other peoples downloaded web pages is not open source.
>
> To which I replied, and I think should be shared here:
>
> > Woah there, hold on. The 'open' aspect is in the community revision of
> > the content. We will be quickly replacing the old material with new
> > material, probably under the same license that Wikipedia uses for
> > publishing (GPL documentation license). Remember, this is a sort of
> > first announcement, designed to attract people to a vision so that we
> > can work on this sort of project. BTW, what's wrong with downloading
> > web pages? This is exactly what all of the search engines do: they
> > cache the pages and give you a file. In many cases, they also give you
> > your search results in a gzip format (much like a zip), except your
> > browser automatically interprets it as an exact web page, so the
> > difference is very minute. If you are concerned about any of the legal
> > issues with this concept, please (please!) feel free to contribute and
> > help get the project on track.
> >
> > As for it being too chaotic ... that's a problem that I have been
> > trying to solve. I have been tempted to publish an ontology to the
> > mailing list. Perhaps something like a few folders for protocols, a
> > few for equipment design, and then another for the cached news
> > stories? I suspect that the real way to do it would be to have
> > multiple files that explain certain aspects of the project and how to
> > do certain protocols, and that would be the starting base for
> > organization. I'd be glad to entertain other ideas too, I think we can
> > do multiple releases at the same time or provide multiple variations
> > on organization of the information. Whatever works, really.
>
> And this reminds me to mention to the list the general idea of providing
> updates through svn so that people can sync up their packages with new
> additions or modifications so that people do not have to download the
> entire package each time. Thoughts? Has anybody ever done svn or cvs
> for documentation?

No, but it sounds reasonable.

About the RoadMap, why not build the whole thing on a wiki site? Seems
that this would be the best way to attract contributors (minimal
barriers).

Dan.




>
> - Bryan
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