Tomorrow
In the coming 3 years (now!) I wish to
put into place a new infrastructure
for funding our magazine. I need us to
gain more secure funding to enable
some, if not all of the following. Be
aware that I have already begun the
work to bring these features into
being. All I need now are the funds to
pay for them.
Ultimately, I would like us to
deliver the following before my time
is up:-
1) The regular delivery of online
movie lessons on all aspects of slide
making, preparation of slides,
mounting techniques, collection and
preservation of material for
microscopical examination. (I have
arranged for this to begin before the
year is out if I can fund it).
2) Help to our contributors
financially to enable them to improve
their equipment and resources for
producing their articles and
images.
3) A reorganized infrastructure where
both contributor (of articles and
material), and subscriber (voluntary
subscribers funding the work here) are
offered a share in the ownership and
direction of Micscape Magazine and
Mic-UK: essentially a formal
infrastructure based on a mutual and
friendly international society -
registered as such and a legal entity
in its own right. By this means, I
will put into place a stable platform
for our magazine and all material to
survive past my demise with all
material to date protected on behalf of
the author and always belonging to the
author.
4) The purchase or rental of
dedicated physical servers with
broadcast-enabled hardware to push out
video and narrative to facilitate
Micscape staying with the evolving
internet as it shifts from a
word/picture based publishing medium
into a multimedia environment with
program and film broadcasts.
5) To organize the opportunity for
formal research by enthusiast
microscopists, students, and schools
on topics requiring investigations not
undertaken commercially due to there
being no profit to be made in those
avenues of research.
6) To publish and maintain a database of common
microscopic organisms with identifying
pictures, and write-up.
7) To employ people with animation,
3D design, and ray-tracing skills to
construct clear 3D models of many of
the microscopic organisms so we can
understand them better through
contemporary visual imaging
techniques.
8) To employ people to help undertake
and manage this vision.
continue... into the future of
Micscape Magazine
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