Well, we do need more active members and thus I am all out on advertising (not in a corporate way but intellectually 😛 ). But the problem is I really don't know where and whom to tell. Big_K give some ideas on this.
CrazyEngineers community is for the Engineers. But well, how do we identify 'Engineers'? Now in my opinion, "engineering" is all about "mindset". Nothing else matters. One need not complete 4-5 years of formal education in Engineering to be an Engineer (that's my personal opinion, open to debate!). So it does not matter if you are doctor, 10 year old kid, a painter or even if an alien from Mars! We only expect you to have "engineer's mindset", ideas and motivation to bring them to reality.
Advertising is good 😀 ! You can invite your friends, colleagues or even include a link to CrazyEngineers in your email signature. Of course, you are only limited by your imagination .
And for this, lets just loosely start some innovation threads with a Tag 'Innovation' so its really easy to search it later on. After a few hits we can get this flowing. Moreover, initially there is no need for teams, but just a thread where members can post in their rough ideas and grow on it.
Later when an outlined idea has been reached we can ask whoever is interested, to write a Report, solo or chorus.
Pretty soon (provided Murphy's law doesn't interfere) we will have good articles posted by experienced CEans (talks are on). But it makes sense that we burp out our own ideas and discuss them with CEans. Of course as we grow bigger, we will have idea originator to take lead to turn the idea into reality. We will also make sure that the good ideas are well protected.
Another thing to consider is that we can start two threads for a idea. The Main 'Innovation' and 'Innovation-loonies' which has the discussion on who all are interested and why and who will write the report with who, blah blah.
Good idea! 😀 Introducing new sections or restructuring is no big deal. We need at least 5-10 discussion threads to have a new section.
I think that's enough of discussion. Let's get into action. CEans! Jump In!
-The Big K-
p.s 1: Excuse me if above text contains grammar blunders/typos. I'm bit sleepy.
p.s 2 : CEans call me "Biggie" 😁 It sounds cooler than "Big_K".