Com Committee Stuff

["Erik D. Olson" <eriko@wrq.com>]

Hi.

First off, before the meat (which is a few pages long), I'll put in
another request for submissions to the "AGA Live" section of the web
pages.

I've been busy doing research and putting together the hardware for
my eventual move of the Krib, AGA, etc pages away from Caltech and into
more direct control in my home.  Several items fall out of this:

1. The AGA can choose its own domain to register if we'd like the pages to
appear as something like http://aga.org (otherwise they'll be
http://thekrib.org/AGA).  This service costs $35 per year from the
internic, so we'd need to get a motion to allocate $70 to set it up (they
make you pay for 2 years).  The cool thing about having our own domain is
that if the pages move to a new maintainer, the domain can usually move
with them (though most ISPs hosting web pages will charge an extra $5 or
$10 per month for this).  The bad thing here is that aga.org and aga.com
are already taken, meaning we would have to come up with another domain
name!  (Suggestions?)

2. Once the pages and computer are under my control, it means I can get
the "help me" forms working again!  It also means I will transfer the
mailing lists to the domain (aga-mcm@the-aga.org, etc), and can even add
some pseudo-addresses for "contacting the AGA" (aga-editor@the-aga.org,
etc).  (Any other dream features?)

3. I'm holding off on my action item of archiving the mailing list on the
web until the site/list changeover, but I've found a few nice archiver
programs capable of doing this.  For now, you can retreive back issues of
aga-mcm by sending mail to majordomo@luna.wrq.com with "help" as subject.

4. I'm still debating whether or not to solicit any sort of donations, and
how (direct? via corporate pages? via individual sponsors?); it's going to
end up costing me about $75 per month to do all the hosting combined
(Krib, AGA, etc), which is finally low enough for me to be able to pull it
off in the first place, but high enough for my wife to raise eyebrows.  I
was trying to see if I could get local stores to give me a little kickback
in exchange for doing some pages for them, but so far no interest, so this
will probably not happen.  I'm also going to ask our local club, whose
pages I also maintain.  I do know I will avoid inline ads at all costs! If
you guys have any suggestions or ideas, please feel free..

Web geek boy, signing off...
  - Erik

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Erik Olson                              
eriko at wrq.com