Toward a New Foundation

[DanDare]

I don't buy that money was the problem with the forum. The foundation has hundreds of thousands of dollars, much of which we gave them.

So, who is up for designing a new Global Foundation of Reason and Science, with many rationalist figureheads instead of just one?

I'm a bit fuzzy on it right now (its 5am and I have been up all night dealing with this). But there are things we can do. We could make a forum self funding. To give you an idea of what's possible I invite you to look at fraxionpayments.com, which is a business I have just formed to allow micropayments to be made at Wordpress blogs. I bet with a few months work I could extend the idea to unlocking forum threads for only a few cents per person, making the forum at least self funding.

There is more that would have to be done to go from a forum to a full blown foundation but I believe its the forum community that has to be the core of any such enterprise.

My wife is going to be really pissed off I stayed up all night. I think I better bugger of and get some sleep. (I keep saying that but this disaster keeps bulling be back to the screen to read more).

[J.A.Poisson]

a new Global Foundation of Reason and Science

To what end?

[DanDare]

ostensibly the same as RDF. It is a worthy cause but I think it just shot itself in the head.

[campermon]

a new Global Foundation of Reason and Science

To what end?

World domination of course!! and when we've done that we can then turn this site into a blog too!

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[normal]

a new Global Foundation of Reason and Science

To what end?

World domination of course!! and when we've done that we can then turn this site into a blog too!

:twisted:

Blog, blog, blog, blog, blog!

[lordpasternack]

It already exists. It's called The Reason Project.

We could perhaps affiliate with them in some way?

[DanDare]

It already exists. It's called The Reason Project.

We could perhaps affiliate with them in some way?

The community there doesn't function so well. The forum software they use is brain dead by comparison to this one. And again its a kind of one man show.

[Precambrian Rabbi]

It already exists. It's called The Reason Project.

We could perhaps affiliate with them in some way?

The community there doesn't function so well. The forum software they use is brain dead by comparison to this one. And again its a kind of one man show.

Separate but affiliated though? Could that work? They could link their members here for general chat/discussion, rationalia could send people to them for more organised action etc. Outsourcing could be the way forward!

[J.A.Poisson]

ostensibly the same as RDF. It is a worthy cause but I think it just shot itself in the head.

Maybe it is, but tbh I never really understood what the cause was there, either.

[eXcommunicate]

ostensibly the same as RDF. It is a worthy cause but I think it just shot itself in the head.

Maybe it is, but tbh I never really understood what the cause was there, either.

Promotion of Richard Dawkins? Just a guess.

[J.A.Poisson]

Oh. Then I guess I did understand after all.

[DanDare]

ostensibly the same as RDF. It is a worthy cause but I think it just shot itself in the head.

Maybe it is, but tbh I never really understood what the cause was there, either.

Promotion of Richard Dawkins? Just a guess.

Nah, I never donated funds for that. The aims of the foundation where to promote science and reason world wide.

[J.A.Poisson]

Nah, I never donated funds for that. The aims of the foundation where to promote science and reason world wide.

That sounds quite nebulous.

[AshtonBlack]

Without someone like Richard, or indeed Sam a "New Foundation" wouldn't really fly.
PR is everything, unfortunately, and as for affiliating, you must ask yourself, what's in it for "them" besides some extra members?

[J.A.Poisson]

what's in it for "them" besides some extra members?

Or us, for that matter.