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UnmannedSpaceflight.com and The Planetary Society, "A match made in the heavens"
elakdawalla
post Oct 5 2010, 09:45 PM
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I, along with the rest of the admin team here at UnmannedSpaceflight.com have a big announcment to make today: The Planetary Society and UnmannedSpaceflight.com are joining forces. Here's the Society's press release about it. I'm so excited! You guys with your fantastic work processing space images are exactly the kind of people we seek to connect with, inspire, educate, and in turn, see you educating everyone around you about what's going on in the exploration of our solar system.

Some of you may be a little concerned about this new partnership -- you may be thinking that the Planetary Society will try to change the way the forum is run. Let me assure you that that will not happen. My bosses at the Society recognize that the reason this place is so great is that it is a community that has grown around itself, developed its own rules, and is functioning very well on its own terms. The administrative policies will not change. All that is changing is that the Society is agreeing to be responsible for the financial maintenance of the website; and that when you make donations to support this site, your donations are tax-deductible (at least in the U.S).

If you have any questions or concerns about this new collaboration, please do not hesitate to ask me or any other member of the admin/mod team.


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centsworth_II
post Oct 15 2010, 03:17 PM
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A lot of concern has been expressed about how UMSF(.com) would be affected by its association with The Planetary Society. Let's turn that around. Emily L. has frequently sung the praises of UMSF in her Planetary Society Blog. Now she has specifically recommended UMSF as a site worthy of being part of the Planetary Society family. All the more reason for "keeping UMSF at an 'impressively high level" .

In Emily's blog post which I link above, she says, "...at UMSF, you have to stay to the rules of conduct, keeping to the subject of robotic missions, and the data they return, and not post about forbidden topics or engage in antisocial behavior like trolling or ranting." I would add to the list of unacceptable behaviors 'overly social behavior' such as the off topic banter that recently broke out in one of the Opportunity forums and has since been mercifully removed.
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post Oct 15 2010, 03:57 PM
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QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Oct 15 2010, 08:17 AM) *
A lot of concern has been expressed about how UMSF(.com) would be affected by its association with The Planetary Society.


To be honest, I just don't think that's true. There is not just cause for such concern, and because of that we've made it abundantly clear that things will change very very little, and because of that, people have not expressed much concern at all. Infact most people have used very very positive words indeed.
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- elakdawalla   UnmannedSpaceflight.com and The Planetary Society   Oct 5 2010, 09:45 PM
- - ngunn   Hooray!   Oct 5 2010, 09:50 PM
- - stevesliva   Nice! Not at all concerned about the site con...   Oct 5 2010, 10:01 PM
- - brellis   yay!   Oct 5 2010, 10:04 PM
- - elakdawalla   That's a good question. UMSF will stay on its...   Oct 5 2010, 10:04 PM
- - jasedm   So, business as usual, but TPS picks up the tab? A...   Oct 5 2010, 10:14 PM
- - elakdawalla   Well, sort of. Remember that the Society is an or...   Oct 5 2010, 10:35 PM
- - nprev   Great, and I might say rather unexpected, news...   Oct 6 2010, 12:13 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   Give us another day Nick to get the donation butto...   Oct 6 2010, 12:21 AM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 6 2010, 10:13 AM) Grea...   Oct 6 2010, 12:22 AM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 5 2010, 04:13 PM) Also...   Oct 8 2010, 04:57 AM
- - elakdawalla   Nick: I've sent an email to ask about the CFC.   Oct 6 2010, 12:34 AM
- - nprev   Cool; thanks, Emily. Dan (and I suspect Astro0), I...   Oct 6 2010, 12:39 AM
- - djellison   We must have been talking about this for 8 or 9 mo...   Oct 6 2010, 02:31 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 5 2010, 06:31 PM) ...   Oct 6 2010, 03:06 AM
|- - Tom Tamlyn   >>Ever since I discovered I would be working...   Oct 6 2010, 04:28 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Oct 5 2010, 08:28 PM)...   Oct 6 2010, 04:39 AM
||- - Tom Tamlyn   A second round of congratulations are in order. T...   Oct 6 2010, 04:53 AM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (Tom Tamlyn @ Oct 6 2010, 02:28 PM)...   Oct 6 2010, 05:29 AM
- - eoincampbell   Congratulations! Great news for the solar syst...   Oct 6 2010, 03:00 AM
- - djellison   Oh - we still leave the sawdust on the floor here ...   Oct 6 2010, 03:11 AM
- - Greg Hullender   So contributions will be tax-deductible at last...   Oct 6 2010, 03:42 AM
- - elakdawalla   Yes indeed!   Oct 6 2010, 03:43 AM
- - djellison   It'll seep out in about 3 weeks   Oct 6 2010, 04:56 AM
- - brellis   It's quite refreshing to hear encouraging stor...   Oct 6 2010, 05:02 AM
- - climber   Great new indeed! Doug, on my UMSF profile, ca...   Oct 6 2010, 06:11 AM
- - CosmicRocker   Interesting news on both accounts. Congratulation...   Oct 6 2010, 06:24 AM
- - remcook   sweet   Oct 6 2010, 07:10 AM
- - Stephen   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 6 2010, 08:45 AM...   Oct 6 2010, 07:14 AM
- - Bill Harris   Unfortunately, the conversation has become so rest...   Oct 6 2010, 11:11 AM
- - Juramike   Awesome!   Oct 6 2010, 11:41 AM
- - Poolio   Sounds great! If ever there were a match made ...   Oct 6 2010, 11:56 AM
- - Lunik9   TPS has a nice logo... it's a match made in ou...   Oct 6 2010, 03:40 PM
- - elakdawalla   Stephen, there is a written agreement that outline...   Oct 6 2010, 06:47 PM
- - PDP8E   Emily, ...by any chance did he transfer the title,...   Oct 6 2010, 09:20 PM
- - ngunn   I have expressed here before my belief that the or...   Oct 6 2010, 09:35 PM
- - nprev   Thanks, Emily. Please let me know when you get the...   Oct 7 2010, 12:22 AM
|- - Pertinax   I'm a bit slow to post here and as such my apo...   Oct 7 2010, 12:49 PM
|- - ustrax   sniff...and to think that yesterday this baby was ...   Oct 7 2010, 02:24 PM
- - hendric   Great news! Re: Ngunn's proposal How abo...   Oct 7 2010, 04:29 PM
- - nprev   We have a winner!!! Yep, that was i...   Oct 8 2010, 05:09 AM
|- - NW71   I'm sure there has been far more work behind t...   Oct 8 2010, 06:18 PM
- - ups   Doug, your little project here has become quite su...   Oct 9 2010, 01:33 AM
- - lyford   Man I go off the grid for a few weeks and what hap...   Oct 9 2010, 02:25 AM
- - JohnVV   i guess it is about time to re register at the pla...   Oct 9 2010, 03:08 AM
- - brellis   Reading through UMSF threads and trying to figure ...   Oct 9 2010, 03:23 AM
- - John Macco   As a lurker for 7 years, I thought I'd post my...   Oct 11 2010, 12:31 PM
- - Toma B   So now UMSF is "a project of the Planetary So...   Oct 11 2010, 06:56 PM
- - Tesheiner   Take it easy, man!   Oct 11 2010, 08:24 PM
|- - tedstryk   Toma B: It might be time to cut back on the coffe...   Oct 11 2010, 08:25 PM
- - stevesliva   Ted, facebook is down! Can you/the tooth fair...   Oct 11 2010, 09:20 PM
|- - tedstryk   Sorry, Facebook is the responsibility of the Easte...   Oct 12 2010, 03:06 AM
- - JohnVV   QUOTE Sorry, Facebook is the responsibility of the...   Oct 12 2010, 05:34 AM
- - ngunn   I notice that there is now a link to planetary.org...   Oct 13 2010, 10:13 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (ngunn @ Oct 13 2010, 06:13 PM) ......   Oct 13 2010, 11:17 PM
- - centsworth_II   A lot of concern has been expressed about how UMSF...   Oct 15 2010, 03:17 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Oct 15 2010, 08:17...   Oct 15 2010, 03:57 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (djellison @ Oct 15 2010, 11:57 AM)...   Oct 15 2010, 04:20 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE at UMSF, you have to stay to the rules of co...   Oct 16 2010, 12:15 AM
- - brellis   erm, sorry about the McMansion post. I thot that ...   Oct 16 2010, 04:42 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   Your McMansion in Woodland Hills is safe. Again i...   Oct 16 2010, 05:49 AM
- - Stu   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 16 2010, 01:15 A...   Oct 16 2010, 07:35 AM
- - JohnVV   i have always considered this site to be VERY prof...   Oct 16 2010, 07:36 AM
- - Greg Hullender   I think it's important to keep UMSF profession...   Oct 16 2010, 08:26 PM
- - nprev   An advanced planning question here. Us older heads...   Oct 17 2010, 04:08 PM
- - djellison   The server was explicitly over specified when we g...   Oct 17 2010, 04:47 PM
- - nprev   Asked & answered, plus I learned something. W...   Oct 17 2010, 05:09 PM
- - NMRguy   Very interesting news, indeed! Thanks to all f...   Oct 24 2010, 04:12 AM
- - cbcnasa   UMSF is and has been a fantastic professional sour...   Oct 28 2010, 04:10 PM


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