Review
I usually try to synchronize my quarters with the solar seasons, but with the autumnal equinox having passed over two weeks ago, this video is long overdue. Today I am both testing the streaming configuration on my new Dell Tower Plus desktop PC and am closing out this thread with a review of some of the things that have been done over the past three months. Despite making little progress on Projects, a lot was accomplished in terms of the overall platform’s growth and development. Most significantly, we experimented with the Dell Latitude 7230 Rugged Extreme Tablet’s ability to live stream from remote locations - namely The Outer Banks of North Carolina. I intend to use this to bring a live audience on many future expeditions. These will ideally be educational in nature, along the lines of what is shown in the ethanol distillation project (which was also started this quarter); further, we expanded the Gaming library, hosting events for SuperTuxKart and Red Eclipse, as well as a new dedicated server for Vintage Story. I also began working on platform monetization through subscriptions and affiliate links, which I hope to develop and demonstrate as a viable business model for independent creators. In this stream, I also took the opportunity to explore some of the Discourse and YouTube statistics generated over the past few months. Not a tremendous amount to comment upon there other than that the platform seems to be generally healthy and growing, which is exciting to see. Anyway, I will leave this thread open for a couple of days to allow for any additional comments, otherwise it will close once I create the 2025:Q4 Agenda thread.