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Michael Grube

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Jan 14, 2013, 10:57:12 AM1/14/13
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I'm not sure having the name "Science Liberation Front" is going to help. The name immediately compares us to terrorists/criminals. We're de-legitimizing ourselves before we start.
 
Also, I think the best way to address this issue is to discuss it anonymously and have a public website for distribution.

Bryan Bishop

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Jan 14, 2013, 12:14:01 PM1/14/13
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Michael Grube wrote:
> Also, I think the best way to address this issue is to discuss it
> anonymously and have a public website for distribution.

You're perfectly welcome to be anonymous. As for hosting, here are the
vague requirements that I am aware of.

* About 50M pdfs, and let's say on average 1 MB per article. 50TB of
storage would be a nice start, but this gives absolutely no breathing
room for backups or different staging/production servers. Also this
average doesn't include the bytes for metadata, or the average size of
supplementary data, or the other metadata like journal information.

* Should be hosted anonymously and somewhere safe. I don't mean "pay
with a prepaid credit card" anonymously either, I mean actually
anonymous.

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop

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Jan 14, 2013, 11:05:06 PM1/14/13
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Michael Grube <michae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure having the name "Science Liberation Front" is going to help.
> The name immediately compares us to terrorists/criminals. We're
> de-legitimizing ourselves before we start.

I guess I didn't make this clear eariler, but please submit a better
name idea. I am willing to change the name once.
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