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The first organizing meeting had already been held at the very end of June, but we never put out any promotional material, because we ran into a bit of trouble with the website construction. We have now decided to first set up a BBS platform using my own personal space, and then, once it matures later on, we can always migrate it somewhere else. The BBS is here: http://bbs.yilinhut.com
The minutes of the first meeting are here: http://bbs.yilinhut.com/read.php?tid=2
Call for papers: http://bbs.yilinhut.com/read.php?tid=1
In addition to the annual conference, what we hope even more is to build a lasting and lively academic social platform for students of history of science, philosophy of science, and philosophy of technology in the Beijing area. Therefore, the purpose of setting up the forum is far more than merely publishing information and reviewing submissions. We hope that everyone can participate actively and help spread the word. Whether or not you will directly attend the conference in November, you are all welcome to come online and exchange ideas more often.
In order to ensure that the participants will not become mixed up and out of control, the forum currently uses an invitation-based registration system. Once registration is successful, you can buy invitation codes for free under the “Friends” section in your personal center: http://bbs.yilinhut.com/u.php?a=friend&type=invite
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As for the previous plan, we had intended to open a new category on KKBBS, and incidentally reactivate that long-hibernating forum. But after adding the new category in the backend, it was no longer possible to add subforums, and this problem was extremely strange. Teacher Sun had been slow to help solve it, and I myself did not have super-admin privileges, so it just kept being put off until now. Looking back, I feel that dragging it on any longer would not have been a solution anyway. Besides, even if that problem were solved, that antique PHPwind 4.0.1 on KKBBS was really rather unsatisfactory. It would be better to just use my own space~ After reporting this to Teacher Wu, he also expressed support, so let’s activate it right away~
We installed phpwind 8.5. Compared with 4.0, it has many flashy features, but it also has quite a few practical improvements. Compared with the old version, it has at least the following major advantages:
1. It has a fairly powerful text editor when posting: you can copy directly from Word, while retaining some basic font and heading formatting, and most importantly, it can preserve footnotes. This is very important for an academic forum; otherwise, one either has to spend a great deal of effort editing before posting, or else can only publish papers as attachments, which visitors often can’t be bothered to download when browsing.
2. More comprehensive user management: the new forum has stronger and more fine-grained settings for the permissions of users and administrators at all levels. In addition, besides open registration and closed registration, it also provides an invitation-code registration method. Registered users can obtain invitation codes in certain ways to invite other users to register, so not everyone needs to email me for verification, but the forum can still spread within the field. Moreover, when registering with an invitation code, one can fill in more customized information, such as school and major, and have this information displayed when posting, thereby enhancing the forum’s realism and interactivity while still preserving anonymity.
3. The interface is a bit more modern. Although 4.0.1 is a classic version, in a rapidly developing internet environment it has after all become an antique, and it gives younger netizens a rather distant feeling. After stripping away some of the flashy features, the new version is still quite attractive and dignified. The reading experience is also good.
4. Some other small features: for example, the rating function can ensure that we carry out manuscript review activities in the form of public discussion + anonymous voting, through online collaboration.
Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.
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