User talk:Eric
Welcome to Open Source Ecology! We hope you will contribute much and well. You will probably want to read the help pages. Again, welcome and have fun! Marcin (talk) 08:45, 20 October 2017 (CEST)
Eric, I've been following your wiki contributions, really interesting stuff, thank you for contributing.
Just a few minor suggestions, I noticed you don't use the wiki markup very much, particularly two features:
- numbered lists
- signature tag when doing discussions
For numbered lists put a hash mark in front of items, instead of manually numbering things (edit this talk page to see how I did the list above).
For tagging your comments in talk pages there is a button above the textarea (second from the end) with help text reading: "Your signature with timestamp". If you click that it will automatically insert some characters that get replaced with your name, date, etc upon saving the changes.
Definitely take some time to read the markup help pages, there is a lot of cool stuff you can do with wiki markup: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
Thanks and have fun! --Lex Berezhny (talk) 23:44, 15 November 2017 (CET)
Lex, Thank You!
I am definitely still a novice in this whole text/webpage/wikipage formatting thing so your help is greatly appreciated!
--Eric (talk) 06:45, 16 November 2017 (CET)
We are in OSE meeting now, you should join if you can:
https://meet.jit.si/OpenSourceEcology
--Lex Berezhny (talk) 21:01, 21 November 2017 (CET)
Im writing this as a template for myself.
--Eric (talk) 22:48, 24 Febuary 2017 (UTC)
wiki work
great work on the wiki Eric. if you are looking for a little project you could go through and make sure that each of these genealogy pages are listed in order of newest to oldest Genealogy_Directory Also might try to make them all styled with bullets or whatever the same way. Also, feel free to try out OpenSCAD if you want to jump in on the circular knitting machine code :D I can help with tips and tricks. --Dorkmo (talk) 21:50, 10 March 2018 (CET)
Thanks! I can definetly do the organizational stuff. For now I am trying to make "Construction Sets" for just about everything we have made or will make. I am also doing some stuff like making sure all information pages go into a page similar to constructions ses but for knowledge. Organizing the geneologies fits nicely into this so I will definetly do that.
I am a student so my work is kind of sporadic. Once I am done with all the stuff listed in the above bit I will probably do a smaller design or to of mine on this page as a sort of learning exercise. I think I will do this Open Source Vacuum Cleaner project, or maybe design a dremel tool holder to make a basic D3D 3 Axis CNC Mill.
Then once I am done with the above things I will probably join the official dev team and do stuff with that.
Anyhow how does OpenSCAD work? From what I gathered (and may be completely wrong in thinking) it is a CAD software where you directly interface with the code, instead of a program like FreeCAD where you use the interface of the software (unless you get all fancy in FreeCAD at least).
I don't think I will be of much help on that front (YET at least). Although, It seems like you are doing a fine job on it without me getting in there so I guess I will leave it at that. Sorry if I ranted a bit there, and keep up the great work!
--Eric (talk) 01:14, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm just writing this as a sort of test of this f a n c y n e w s e r v e r before I do anything else.
--Eric (talk) 01:10, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm Back!
Had some health related stuff to deal with, but i'm good to go now. I'm going to start by reading through the changelogs and watching the meetings, but hopefully I will be caught up soon!
--Eric (talk) 12:38, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
--Eric (talk) 22:57, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Eric, thanks for offering to help get materials together for expo events. I would most appreciate help getting together a few signs/displays and information sheets, mainly I need the graphics/documents. I would like to get an Open Source Ecology sign and a display of the 50 machines of GVCS, with a high quality graphic I can get these printed. A hand out for at least the D3D would also be good for tabling. I added some sections https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Participation_in_Makerfaires#Tabling_supplies and if you can collect good graphics that would be super helpful.
Poli (talk) 03:03, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
Have a long weekend at last, so I'm diving into these posters. With the 50 Machines, some of them are very outdated looking (ie the 3D Printer looks like the original reprap, not the D3D). Should I correct this? Everything else is going nicely.
--Eric (talk) 21:57, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
I ordered a poster already, so that is set. It is just a sign so people have an organization name, I used this image http://www.sharingame.org/media/Global_Village_Construction_Set-1024x712.jpg . I am trying to get together a few explanation graphics to lead people through the concepts required to understanding how a 3D printer works. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/D3D_Enterprise_Training_Program#Curriculum_for_education
So a figure showing how xyz coordinates are used in making 3D models and generating gcode is my next deliverable
Poli (talk) 02:58, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
circular knitic
lol yeah! re: the arduino shields, it is very silly and expensive use of materials, but its working for now, woot. i'll upload a picture later for the lulz -Poli
I want liquid helium and a black market nuclear Turbo-electric submarine next... --Eric (talk) 3:35, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Just got back from a talk at UNF with my school's "Great Decisions" club. The guest speakers were James Fallowss and Deborah Fallows. They spoke about their book "Our Towns". This book explores troubled cities in the USA, but also how those same cities came back. There are a lot of similarities in philosophy, as well as some potentially useful ideas/methods in it. All in all it was a great speach, and I will now try to get some of it's bullet points down, and possibly find a reccording of it (They have broadcasts, but I don't know if it is private etc).
--Eric (talk) 00:56, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Just got settled in for my first semester (summer B) of University at the University of North Florida (or UNF). Tommorow my classes start, but I will try to send an inquiry about using the schools fab-lab for OSE work (I toured it a few years back; pretty extensive, although I will probably stick to the welder, hand torch, and their 3D Printer, as their industral Multi Axis CNC is way too expensive and important for my needs as of now. I will try to keep everyone updated about all this excitment! (PS I also got a laptop with some REAL processing power for University + Immediately Afterwards, Huge improvement in render times, which is refreshing, I may also try a dual boot Windows+OSE Linux later)
--Eric (talk) 22:19, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Just got signed up for the Personal Protective Equipment mini-course/quiz needed to gain acess to UNF's Machine Shop Part of their Fab-Lab! I'll finish that after homework today or tomorrow, so I should be able to use it quite soon. Their FDM + Vaccuum Former Section did get moved, as I suspected, so that requires a different inquiry... Learning how to torch, turn, and weld components should keep me busy until then!
--Eric (talk) (14:44), (2) (July) (2019) (UTC)
FINALLY finished all of that Fab Lab Saftey Stuff, it was kind of on the back burner for a while. Projects need to get cleared and have some level of legitimacy/relivance to them in order to use the space (which is all okay, I was planning on only using machines stuff when they were not currently being used for full on engineering projects)
I may try and found an OSE club at UNF then. It would probably fallshort of being a full on OSE campus, but I can see some possible ways it could go:
- Open Source Golfcarts for Maitenence Staff Etc
- Open Source Power Tools for Maitenence Staff Etc
- Open Source Construction Vehicles for Construction and for Maitenence Staff Etc
- Open Source Bikes/Velomobiles for sale/rent
- UNF (3D) Print Service (As we already have UNF Printing for paper goods)
- We have an onsite garden that supplies the cafeteria today I will see if they would be intrested in anything, such as a micro trac, a greenhouse and/or aquaponics system, and maybe a D3D Farmbot
- Collaboration with local affordable housing groups like habitat for humanity with a CEB press and/or Open Source Power Tools, and/or Open Source Construction Vehicles
- Host a Makerfaire
--Eric (talk) 13:10, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
So this past thursday, I was at a completgely different counterprotest against the schools soapbox preacher guy, and I met a computer science major. We struck up conversation, and I brought up OSE. They seemed intrested, and may join soon. They probaably have class today, I only have class monday through thursday. I will try to contact them later today or tomorrow to see if they are sttill intrested, and help them set up an account etc.
--Eric (talk) 12:53, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi Eric,
As requested by Marcin, I consolidated the notes on marketing on various places, see my notes on marketing. Looking forward to learn about your ideas.
--Pieter (talk) 09:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Seems great! Must have been a mess grabbing all the links. I'll start digging through them, and see what i can do
--Eric (talk) 19:56, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Replied at User_talk:Marcin#Alternative_to_aquaponics_system OS combined cycle (talk) 14:44, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Can we make hydroponics along with a duckweed, algae bioreactor the default?
-- Seaweed (talk) 13:11, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey Eric! Thank you for the links on my talk page! Very useful indeed, a great help to get started! I am delighted to hear that there is a Discord Channel. Unfortunately the Invite link did expire already. Can you generate a new link? Thank you! Looking forward to working with you all :-).
DanielUhl (talk) 15:34, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Updating the link now! Here is it:
--Eric (talk) 18:17, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Eric i replied to your kind invitation to chat, with an alternative communications channel that respects Libre Ethical principles (freenode)
Lkcl (talk) 13:19, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Do you have experience with that / something similar? I haven't used it myself (but am looking into it right now). Setting up / managing these channels is a bit outside of my area (although i am learning).
I also did some looking around and found this. Element (software) Seems very promising (looking into it right now)
Also i found this which if i am understanding it correctly should allow for "syncing" all of the various platforms (granted the section differences between the Discord and Slack would need to be reconciled.
What are your thoughts on all this?
