Hello all… thought I’d give out another update on the SRL (previously the SSRC). I met with Fahmida Ahmed
I couldn't think of a relevant picture for this post, so here's a view from the top of half dome I took at sunrise two weekends ago. If any of you haven't done the midnight climb, I highly recommend it!
and she’s really excited about the project. She pledged the Green Fund’s support for at least some of our operating costs for next year (we’ll still have to find funding for the social events & awareness campaign, but it will come). Also, she suggested we call it the Sustainability Research Library. This sounds more official, it encompasses faculty if they want in, it makes it more obvious of a go-to for students embarking on a research project, and it makes it very clear that we’re providing a service to, not competition with, subject-specific research groups on campus. What do you all think about this?
Finally, I met someone while selling tickets for a Stanford Summer Theater production who wants to do our dynamic web programming for free! He’s well versed in php and other languages I haven’t even heard of, and is interested in making our site generally kickass, such as making users able to upload and profile their own work with title, keyword, category, tenability (peer reviewed/academic/data only/notes), and an abstract, and then allow users to search keywords or categories and have the site dynamically create search results and pages for each article. This will change the site’s limitation from my ability to upload content to the physical limitations of the host’s hd and bandwidth size since we don’t have to maintain the content. Now, there’s nothing preventing us from going national… a few other schools have unofficially expressed an interest in participating! This can be our goal for next year (during the year)… take the site to the national stage.
So excited! Let’s get this blog moving again now that we’re all in summertime and have some room to stretch our brains!
-Mike