| Author: | Stefano |
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| category: | Personal, Websites |
Wikimedia fundation is organizing another round of fundraising to support Wikipedia. I wish to remember that the English version currently contains more than 3 millions pages.
Wikipedia is one of the most impressive and revolutionary achievement of the internet crowd. It changed the way culture is made available. Wikipedia is important for all of us. So please consider donating. The target is currently at 7.5 million dollars, with one million already collected. It's still quite a way to go, but it can be achieved.
I want to take this post to add a bit of information about what's going on behind the scenes here at ForTheScience. I have two posts in preparation, plus a large set of projects to manage. I will give a sneak preview:
- I started the Wavemol project: tools for quantum chemists. My intention is to provide tools and documentation for computational and quantum chemists, and create a community around the website. At the moment, the website redirects here, but I will change this as soon as possible. Help very welcome!
- I am developing a database for computational chemistry information, to be published under the Wavemol project aegis. The project makes use of python+django+RDF+REST. If anyone is interested in helping me, he is very welcome. I can provide mentoring on the status via skype or mail. The project is cool! If you want to learn about the above technologies, this is a great opportunity. The project is available on launchpad.
- I am writing two more posts on ForTheScience. One is about hyperpolarizabilities and another is about quantum mechanics in general. They take some time to prepare, as the post on the non-newtonian fluids, so always keep into account that when you read something, it's old and I am already working on something new.
- I would like to provide Physical Chemistry course notes straight from my personal notes at the university. I recovered them from two friends of mine, Roberto Forlani and Raffaele Giordani, whom I really want to thank and acknowledge. I will have to translate (they are in Italian) and retype them in DocBook (they are in dead-tree format) but rest assured, I will manage.
- I would like to provide more features to Chestnut Package Manager. In the last 6 months, the program has been downloaded an average of 30 times a month, not much, but far beyond my (slim) expectations of one or two a month. I'd like to provide dependencies and to put the program on the Python Package Index, so if you would like to help, you are mostly welcome!
- I moved the RSS feed to feedburner, so to get better statistics.
- and more...
Yes, more indeed, but I definitely need 48 hours/day!