Moon Society Projects

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Lunar Lava Tube Robot Project

  • Find Site
  • Gain additional funding
  • Gain additional volunteers
Lunadyne says, "Our track at the next ISDC is on Lunar Lava Tubes, so that offers the opportunity to announce our field exercise if we've been able to raise the money. More likely, the ISDC is where we'll announce the KickStarter fundraiser."

Lure Students to Lunarpedia

kokhmmm says, "James, might not the wiki be a good project to have students work on? We do have a student membership class, or rather a student chapter membership class."
  • Finding people interested in adding to the wiki can increase the size of our active volunteer base

Integrated Lunar Data on Lunarpedia

  • Integrate data from multiple data sets into easy accessed, searched, and edited wiki articles
  • Status:
  • Challenges:
  • Calculations of distances from coordinates assuming an elliptical spheroid
  • Determining areas surrounding each feature
  • Presentation of Lunar Prospector and similar data on differently sized and shaped features and areas
  • Ease of revising by script
  • Integrating data sets with inconsistent names and coordinate data
  • Proper handling of LAC and LQ regions
  • Presentation of Mean Earth Polar Axis and West Pole coordinates.


Repair Solar Power Demo

  • Who has posession of it?
  • What will it cost to get it back into shape to take to shows and conferences?
  • What is needed to be able to plug it in and use it without getting into regulatory trouble?

High Priority

Revamp http://moonsociety.org

  • Status: provisional webmistress assigned
  • Action items:
  • Select hosting candidates
  • Select design objectives
Mobile device support
Easy maintainability
  • Select candidate CMS (Drupal? Website Director?)
  • Integrate or at least connect new site into existing back infrastructure

This item is to be reported on to the Management Committee on 15 August 2012

Guidestar

  • Secure entry into the Guidstar nonprofit system
pjbanyai says, "The two major requirements for Guidestar are (1)a Chairman of the Board and (2) information on at least one official program for Donors with a projected budget for how much the program costs us and the nccs tax code category. We also need every member of the Management Committee to review the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector's principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practices located at http://www.moonsociety.org/private/leaders/pubs/."


Revise Membership System

  • Allowances for chapter members and volunteers
  • Rework email list system?


Long Term

Resume Getting to the Moon

  • Status:
  • Pilot produced in 2007/2008
  • Interview footage from 2007 ISDC and later events
  • Challenges:
  • Transcripts of interview footage
  • Scripts on specialized topics
  • Woman narrator with a full name, credentials, and preferably a PhD

Replace the Artemis Project Reference Mission

  • Challenges:
  • Find people with (or who can develop) the needed skill sets

Find and Develop IP

  • Find existing properties that can be acquired
  • Create new properties
  • Get Moonbeams back into release and possibly print
  • Develop focus for Scientifiction/Exofiction


Uncategorized

Artemis Magazine

  • Acquire copies of Artemis Magazine for resale, prizes, and incentives
  • Compile a 'best of' book?
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