We have an "incubator" to develop proposals for new communities for our network. A couple proposals look to be ready to advance, and we want to make sure that everyone who's interested has a chance to provide feedback. Please provide proposal-specific feedback on the linked posts. Please provide general feedback on this post.

Worldbuilding / Scientific Speculation

We have an existing community, Scientific Speculation, "for people interested in worldbuilding or other speculative developments that can be extrapolated from science" (that's the description on codidact.com). The community currently has low activity levels.

There is a proposal for a Worldbuilding community, which would be broader than Scientific Speculation. The idea of merging Sci Spec into a Worldbuilding community, should one be viable, was brought up on Sci Spec Meta about a year ago and was positively received. Since then, the Worldbuilding proposal has had good activity in the incubator (well-received posts from a variety of people).

We are proposing to expand Scientific Speculation into a broader (and renamed) Worldbuilding community. See the posts on Scientific Speculation Meta and Proposals for the details of how this would work, and also for some questions we'd like community input on, including name and the operation of a workshop category.

Makers

We have proposals for a Home Improvement community and also for an Arts & Crafts community. There is actually a lot of overlap between the two; questions about paintbrushes, adhesives, sanders, protecting fabrics, and many more areas are the same questions whether you're refurbishing a chair or making a jewelry box. We have a proposal to create a "makers" community from these two proposals. "Makers" might not be the right name. If you are an artist, crafter, maintenance worker, builder, or maker, can you help us refine this idea?

Also...

We have other proposals in various stages of development. See the Incubator Q&A for questions. Each proposal has its own tag for easier filtering.