Thanks for the offer, Daniel.
Your exact proposal is premature, but we may find other ways we can
work together.
I'm not a big fan of Yahoo, but for the moment the best place for us
to be is right here. A lot of options were researched 6 months ago
before this group was created and Yahoo was the best choice at that
time. The reasons it was chosen still apply. Eventually we may want
to shift to another host, but the time isn't right yet. There are
some functions in the Yahoo system that are being exploited to
recruit members. For the next few months it makes sense to continue
on this path. Once the current push is complete, and we're done
exploiting Yahoo, other options can be considered.
Even if some kind of shift is made, keeping this Yahoo site running
will still make sense. The multiple mirror sites have proven
extremely effective in recruiting members. It's also nice to know
that even if one site were to go kaput and lose everything, that the
mirror sites will have a lot of our archives already backed up. The
rest has been off loaded so we shouldn't ever lose anything. There
are also some abandoned papercrete groups that I'd like to create an
easy global papercrete search with. All this technical gibberish
means that we're constantly trying to make things better.
Above all, let's remember that what makes this group great are the
PEOPLE that join and share their knowledge and experience. We could
have the ultimate fancy schmancy system, but without the people it
would be an empty shell of pointless software. Any shift to a new
system, no matter how great the new system is, will cause us to lose
some members. The benefits of a new system need to exceed what
losses we will incur to justify the change.
Some day it may make sense to shift to another host, but if and when
it happens it will be done for very compelling reasons to
DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE the capabilities and resources available to our
members.
I like your enthusiasm Daniel. Keep thinking outside the box.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel Coffey"
<thesilentchamber@...> wrote:
>
> Hello. I know I have very few posts on papercreters (two I think),
but I
> have a proposal for you, I could setup maintain a real forum for
you guys,
> under a real domain name for free. It would be advertisment free
and whoever
> are the moderators on the the yahoo site would be moderators on the
forum
> (I'm not trying to boot myself into "power" or anything of that
sort). I
> know it may sound suspicious of me to offer to do all this for free
but I
> would like to be able to put that it as a reference on a resume. It
could
> all be setup in a matter of days which would include all the
graphics,
> member "ranks" and titles, moderators setup, ect. It would give the
ability
> to not only make it easier for people to view and post (you have to
admit
> that the yahoo sites are somewhat annoying to navigate and read
posts) as
> well as the ability to break the forum down into groups of specific
> applications, such as have one deaticated to mixes and recipees,
drying
> proceedures and so on, and have on for peoples current projects,
and one for
> ideas and testing and so fort. I know getting users to switch from
one site
> to another sometimes is hard, but the registration proceedure would
be
> minimal, less then thirty seconds. The forum also uses an active
spam
> protection and protection against automated registering. I think it
would be
> a great step in furthering the progress of papercrete. Please let
me know
> something.
>
> -Daniel
> TheSilentChamber
>
>
> On 7/28/07, slurryguy <slurryguy@...> wrote:
> >
> > Where will it end? We keep getting bigger and better all the
time.
> >
> > Papercreters now has a read only mirror on Blogspot.
> > http://papercreters.blogspot.com/
> >
> > It took a while to get all the bugs worked out, but now our
messages
> > appear there as well.
> >
> > YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CHANGE ANYTHING.
> >
> > If you enjoy your Papercreters messages the way they are right
now,
> > great! That hasn't changed. If you want to read the messages off
> > the Blogspot site, feel free to do so, they are there for
everyone.
> >
> > This is yet one more way we're getting the word out so that people
> > interested in papercrete can find us. All of these efforts are
> > working too. We have 596 members in just under 6 months as I type
> > this message.
> >
> > We now have:
> > Our Primary Yahoo site where anyone can join for free and be able
to
> > post messages, pictures, links, and files.
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/
> >
> > Our read only Google Mirror, where anyone can read messages, but
will
> > have to join the Yahoo site to post messages:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/Papercreters
> >
> > Our YouTube group for papercrete related videos:
> > http://www.youtube.com/group/papercreters
> >
> > The above mentioned read only Blogspot site:
> > http://papercreters.blogspot.com/
> >
> > Our Papercrete recipe and testing database is still under
development
> > (thanks Nori)
> > http://www.papercreters.net/
> >
> > None of these sites mean anything without the people that join and
> > share their knowledge and experience. Thanks gang! YOU ARE
> > PAPERCRETERS.
> >
> > What will happen next? Stay tuned. It keeps getting better.
> >
> >
> >
>
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