This page is the official home page of PlanetMath.org, Ltd., the legal entity for PlanetMath (planetmath.org).
The purpose of having such an entity is to provide a formal interface between PlanetMath, other organizations (both for-profit and nonprofit), the government, and society in general. Such an interface is necessary to "scale up" the PlanetMath effort, in terms of funding, personnel, and publicity. This page serves as a description of, and vehicle for coordinating such efforts, as well as a locus for transparency and disclosure for the organization.
Other portions of AsteroidMeta are designed to help make know-how available to anyone who wants to participate. Here, we will talk about organizational aspects of PM, including an overview of resources, interests, skills, and a discussion of PM's finances.
PlanetMath is run by PlanetMath.org, Ltd., an Alexandria, VA, USA-based nonprofit corporation, incorporated in September, 2003. Aaron Krowne (akrowne) is the president, and there is a board of directors, consisting of:
The PlanetMath board has so far had only one official meeting, by IRC (see PM Board Meetings).
As of May, 2005, PlanetMath.org, Ltd is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt public charity! This means:
An important note related to this is that 501(c)3 status was granted back-dated to Nov, 2003. Therefore, any monetary contributions made by individuals to PM since then can be processed for tax deduction. If this means you, please get in contact with akrowne or Bonnie.
Discussion of PM Organizational Structure
Current business of the nonprofit org will be linked-in here.
What's going on now?
How you can interact with our community and organization:
See PlanetMath Board Meetings.
Please see PMByLaws.
Some of the things we would like to do are currently constrained because of lacking finances (e.g. buying faster servers). Some of the things are constrained by lack of know-how, diverging interests, or the presence of other priorities among otherwise willing volunteers (for example, it would be nice to have someone working full time to fix bugs in the PM/Noösphere system, but we'd probably need to either hire someone to do this, or find and train a willing, knowledgeable volunteer or group of volunteers, who in turn would have to have enough time to actually do the work required.) We could also do some things we already do, but better, with greater funding (such as delivering the web site with higher quality-of-service). Thus, serious funds are required to do serious things.
This section contains some reports on various aspects of the PlanetMath project, with an emphasis on charts and tables of various figures and statistics. Only the latest versions of a certain kind of report item will be posted here.
Items available now:
This is the most current report. See also Previous Adsense Trends.
All the following charts are daily from March 6 2004 to May 1 2005.
This month, a change was introduced in how moving averages were calculated, which effects the edge regions. Instead of essentially extending the border value to fill the moving average bracket, the value of the last full moving average is used to pad border moving averages that go off the edge. The reason this was introduced was that it was noticed that trends seemed magnified at the edge reasons. To see why consider the case where the moving average window contains only the last point: if you average this point with itself, you get itself, which isn't much of an average and isn't useful for studying trends.
Note: moving averages are done on an appropriate scale to make trends apparent. Image files are named with the moving average window size (in days) included.
Sadly, most of the trend detail (impressions and clickthrough) have been removed from public view due to the terms of service. --akrowne Tue Nov 1 21:58:12 UTC 2005
This is a place to describe the non-monetary resources that make PM work, including volunteer effort, hardware, software, and know-how.
Currently PlanetMath has the following donated "tangible" resources:
As far as volunteers who have directly contributed to building the site's infrastructure, so far we've had work done by:
We have had more infrastructure-related work volunteered (but not yet finished):
Persons who have installed or are installing Noosphere, who can provide feedback on this "adventure" and who may eventually submit some additional patches or documentation:
Partnerships, affiliates, friends, etc.:
Non-infrastructure-related volunteer authors have built the PM encyclopedia (and in the process have extensively tested and critiqued Noosphere):
Organizational and community support for the site provided by:
In this section, we will list things we would like to do, and focus on plans for drumming up the resources we'll need.
We have actually done quite a bit of planning on Grant planning. --akrowne Mon Nov 21 21:29:26 UTC 2005
This section gets you to info on official trips taking place on behalf of the PM org; for networking, outreach, planning, collaboration, or perhaps more. The following page indexes has current, future, and past trips.
See PlanetMath Code Bounties (new, Mon Nov 21 21:32:03 UTC 2005!).
See also Finding Bounty-Hunters.
See PM Summers of Code.
