User talk:Demotech, design: Difference between revisions

Welcome! Great to have you on board - looks like you fit right in here. Look forward to seeing your contributions.

I used some of the material from your userpage to create Demotech, design for self-reliance, and added to the organizations category, and the Netherlands category. --Singkong2005 ^talk 02:02, 30 September 2006 (PDT)

Another Welcome

Welcome. Your site has so much excellent content. We are very excited to have your input here. Please feel free to add many relevant links back to Demotech, in addition we would love any content you wanted to bring from demotech to here... a great first page seems like it would be More joy per person. Thank you for your work and your interest. --Lonny 03:10, 1 October 2006 (PDT)

Student Workforce

Hi Reinder,

Great to see the additions from your student workforce. The photo of the finished wood weld is a great addition to that page. I moved the photo to the top of the Weld wood page, so that viewers can see it right away, and know what they are going for. I also see that Anna has registered, I am welcoming her right now. Please let her know that she can ask for help from the community at the Village pump, from me at Lonny or from any of the other users especially admins.

Thank you, --Lonny 12:18, 21 October 2006 (PDT)

Added Category Demotech

Hi Reinder,

We have promoted your organization page, Demotech, design for self-reliance, to its own category - Category:Demotech. This has been done because of the high level of contribution from your organization and allows user of Appropedia to see, in one place, the users and the pages ported from your organization.

Normally it is bad form to edit anothers user page, but I have gone ahead and added the category demotech to your user page so that you show up listed at Category:Demotech.

Thank you for you and your organizations excellent work, --Lonny 13:04, 12 November 2006 (PST)

"Sub-sub categories for the sub-category Demotech

copied from the Village pump

I would like to copy the category structure of my site http://www.demotech.org as it to found at http://www.demotech.org/d-design.php
In fact I consider to port the whole of the structure of the Demotech site to Appropedia to invite the cooperation that is up to now too limited. In this category structure I like to port an abstract of the content as it is to be found at the Demotech website. This regards an abstract of all of the design initiatives and all of the publications. I want to link all of these abstracts to the full original content at the Demotech site.

Next to that I want to link each of these design initiatives to a discussion page, thus creating a space that acts much like a forum, where each post is allocated next to the general info it is about.

In the Demotech web site there is, next to the main HTML part of each design initiative also a Wiki part. This Wiki part is meant for reporting on research done on this design initiative. I set it up to facilitate intern students and students doing their thesis. It is tested only with a few intern students. It worked fairly well: the general setup of the research fitted the work of the students well enough. See an example at: http://www.demotech.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Design/D53
I hope to get comments on the idea to port this section to Appropedia and not to have it anymore in the Demotech site. Maybe not only for the Demotech design topics, but added to any topic in Appropedia that is suitable for it and needs to be researched on. Specially it is meant to assist teachers and students in the hope to involve world wide education in the research for appropriate solutions.

I look forward to get from the village pump inspiration and guidance. Reinder, Demotech, design for self-reliance, 25 May, 2007

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