Christof Beaupoil Founder someAWE.org 22 Aldie Street Boston, MA 02134 U.S.A. christof.beaupoil@gmail.com www.someAWE.org
Hello World: someAWE.org
Christof Beaupoil someAWE.org Over the past decade the Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) scientific, industrial and hobby communities have grown considerably. Scientific and industrial communities have started to build networks and platforms to improve com-munication and collaboration. However to this day there is no inviting, active AWE online community to support these activities.
Current and past attempts to create an active AWE online community struggle to attract most of the active minds in the space due to the following reasons:
• Lack of focus leading to high noise to information ratio • Lack of moderation leading to lack of civility and focus • Relying on ”if you build it, they will come”, leading to
lack of active members
On 15 June 2015 the online platform someAWE.org will go live and try to close this gap by becoming an active, welcoming and open AWE community. The platform will be dedicated to make AWE happen by creating a place to discuss about the technology and related aspects in a friendly but strictly on topic manner. The platform has sound funding and human resources to avoid the three
symptoms that made past attempts struggle/fail. The platform will be completely independent from any com-mercial interests. It will be open for comcom-mercial and open projects. The platform will be actively moderated based on the following criteria:
1. Civility is paramount – Treat others with respect, kind-ness and generosity.
2. Strictly on topic – No discussion of anything other than airborne wind energy.
3. Respect the laws of physics – No discussion of any-thing that would require the laws of physics to be changed or that requires technology that is not likely to be available in our lifetime.
4. Share – Although someAWE.org is not limited to open source projects: open communication and publishing under an Open license is encouraged.
We would like to use the opportunity to build the critical mass of users to get the community going by presenting the platform to the illustrious circle of AWEC 2015 atten-dants.
