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Well, FIDO may end up being the first product of Farm Hack, but I don't expect it to be typical. I imagine most tools will be mechanical thus a mechanical template will no doubt be useful.
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You seem to have a pretty clear idea of what a "Template Tool" would look like. You could pick some trivial, perhaps hilarious, example and do it up!
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So it seems like there is some interest in developing the framework of Farm Hack in several directions. Right now, the site was developed with collaborative R&D and networking in mind. It seems that there is perhaps some interest in the following activities: 1) **spreading out R&D costs**: this could be like Kickstarter, except no need to give *them* a 5% commission. The reward structure seems like a great thing and it very much like a CSA in a way: you pay before the development process when funds are needed and as a result, you get a discounted product. **I think we could very easily have a forum for this based out of the current infrastructure and see if it gets used. If it does, something a little more streamlined like Kickstarter might be justified.** Also, if a project doesn't meet its objective within just our community, it might make sense to go to Kickstarter afterwards. 2) **a marketplace**: a place to buy kits and finished products. Once again, this could be done informally within the existing infrastructure until it proves necessary to tailor the site to this function; **just create a section on the tool that offers where to buy said product.** In conclusion, all these things can be accomplished with the site as it stands; we have tool pages, a wiki, and a forum. Web 2.0 is about *user contribution* - the site is only as good as a community makes it. Nothing is to stop us from creating a wikipedia entry about ourselves and linking what tools we have to offer. Nothing is to stop me from creating the "Hackstarter" forum by creating a tool like I'm about to do. Once the site starts getting pushed in one direction or another, then maybe there will be a need for an infrastructure overhaul but these wikis and forums can be distorted to do almost anything you want - let's hack this site! (by hack this site, I do *not* mean attempt to take it down :P)
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Ah - it seems that the framework is there but that perhaps the 100 byte max from the test server is still around. I would attach a Google Doc link until it gets straightened out.