A "social network" for free energy.

[broli]

Every time I see a person struggle with funding or a thread being filled with clutter to only lose its momentum and purpose, it gets to me. For a long while now I had this concept floating around of a much organized way for project driven development of free energy stuff.

Think of combining:
Twitter
FaceBook
tumblr
Youtube
kickstarter

Especially that last one is a big one.

I have so many ideas for it but imo the key property of it should be simplicity and perhaps be a bit pleasing to the eye. You start off with a member. Any member can initiate a project which creates a project page.
The main project page looks sort of like a simple blog which is populated with posts from the project initiator as the project is being developed. Also a very obvious donation link, amount of views, perhaps even a “like” and/or follow button,  can be included.
These would give viewers a chance to follow up on the progress of the projects they like and give a sense of progress on them.

Besides the project’s main page, it may include sub pages. One such page could be a “theory” page as to aid new viewers/followers in grasping the concept, the history, the seed of the idea.
Also on the global main page, like on kickstarter and youtube, you could perhaps see and overview of the most active or recent projects, or the ones you follow if you are a member.

It might sound overly complex or too big but it shouldn’t be. We are not talking about a massive social network that should handle millions of people and do a million of things. We just want a simple and organized way to manage people who are willing to start a project, perhaps ask for donations and would have a simple platform for showing off their progress.
The whole reason is not to create some free energy social network spin off just for the heck of it. But to tackle the real issues we see on a forum where people struggle with progress in their projects due to very nature of a forum. Whether it’s needing funding, having a good and clear overview of the progress and project without all the clutter from other persons or to just have some private space to get a a device in the open without having to setup your own website and what not. There's no need for a million and one features, simplicity is key.
And obviously any project published this way would be under open source terms thus whether it’s a patent based project or a patent less project all the information would be part of the public domain.

A forum is a good place to talk and discuss concepts, but once you go into actually developing an idea it really isn’t the most efficient way of handling things.

I’m myself a web developer and this is certainly something I would like to give a go in the near future. For now I thought of just putting the idea out there to see what others may think of it.

[WilbyInebriated]

i'd help you code parts (or all) of it...

[Jimboot]

@Stefan agreed, this forum is great but it is just still a forum. Vortexspace.org is using a specific CMS for some of this but I find it a little counter intuitive and ironically i feel it lacks a forum . I think it would be smart though to go down the path of a CMS you can adapt. My fave is wordpress but drupal is also open source. I would avoid of course any hosted solutions for obvious reasons. If you go with one of the more popular CMS you will have more options for support rather than something custom. Let us know if you need a hand. My company is a 16 strong web Dev firm specializing in SEO and social media marketing. Http://stewartmedia.biz and my SEO YouTube channel http://youtube.com/jimboot

[WilbyInebriated]

i started coding on this. should have something tangible in a couple days to show anyone who might be interested. unless the fishing stays good, then it might be a bit longer.

[broli]

i started coding on this. should have something tangible in a couple days to show anyone who might be interested. unless the fishing stays good, then it might be a bit longer.

You're a quick one, just out of curiosity what languages, frameworks, cms's...are you using. Also do you have some sort of portfolio somewhere?