Category: Nanodot

from the other-dot-talks-nano dept.
Our parent website, Slashdot, has a discussion of the Foresight Guidelines for nanotech safety. There are some useful comments embedded in it. To read the highest-rated comments first, do what you do on this site: use the pull-down menu to change "Oldest First" to "Highest Scores First", then press the "change" button. See also Jeffrey Soreff's and others' comments on the original item here on nanodot.

from the hurry-up! dept.
If you plan to present your work at this fall's Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology in Bethesda, MD, you'll need to get your abstract in immediately. The formal deadline is June 16, but if you get it in by Monday, June 19, you'll be okay. After that, there's still a chance, but it decreases over time.

from the identity-crisis dept.
This server needs a name! Preferably one of 1 to 3 syllables that doesn't conflict with something else in our community namespace (and that can also be used as a machine name in the foresight.org domain… "216.240.168.216" does not roll trippingly off the tongue).

A couple of names have already been suggested:

• NanoLog (since the Slash software running the site is a species of the genus that has been called a "weblog")
• ForeSlash (pretty self-explanatory, with significant geek appeal)

Please append your suggestions as comments to this message. Then we'll pick the one we like best; or if we can't choose, we'll run a poll.

Update: In the interests of making the server available to the widest possible audience as quickly as possible, we picked a name ("foreslash", suggested by Geoff Dale) and went with it. Thanks to all who made suggestions!

Update Again: We may not be able to keep ForeSlash as the name of this server… so please continue adding comments and suggesting names!

Dave

from the who-will-help-me-grind-my-grain? dept.
Got an idea for the improvement of ForeSlash? Attach it as a comment to this message. We'll use how each comment gets moderated as a rough measure of its popularity and proceed accordingly. Specifically solicited suggestions:

• Topic categories. Those who email PerlDiver an appropriate icon (GIF or PNG no larger than 80 pixels in either dimension) will earn a sterling silver Waytogo from my family collection. Obvious categories (like Medicine and Foreslash itself) are in the works.
• Sections. Slashdot, the mothership, has sections for Interviews, Ask Slashdot, Science, Apache, etc. Please make your suggestion in the form of a complete scheme of sections; the winning set of sections will do a good job of spanning the likely universe of ForeSlash stories without the categories overlapping too much.