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Re: [AGA-mcm] Forum "purchasing"
All of what Erik says here seems to make sense, though I'm only reading one
side of it... I have not been on the forum itself since the first day to try
it out. (and I'm no longer getting e-mails forwarded from there) Any free
time I have for AGA at the moment has to go toward judging, and even that's
tight in the next few days, as I am finishing up a talk I'm giving tomorrow
night, and leaving for Winnipeg (where I give 2 different talks) on Friday
EARLY AM.
If I can ask for the short story, what's wrong with the software Erik has
chosen. I have no problem spending the money for a program IF it offers a
good benefit, AND Erik is comfortable with it. However, my gut reaction is
to follow Erik's lead on this. I trust him to stick with it, and to keep us
up and operating in a way I trust almost no one else.
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:49 PM
Subject: [AGA-mcm] Forum "purchasing"
Scott,
I am replying off-forum to the topic where you keep steering to "let's pay
the money and buy vBulletin now".
I do not think it is appropriate to just say as treasurer "we're going to
spend the money". The board discussed and voted on the current proposal,
not one that involved purchasing a BB. And I do not think the overall
opinion of the board is that clear-cut. Sorry.
Further, you don't know if I am technically able or willing to install
vBulletin at this time. You don't know if it will cost more to have
someone else do it, host it, etc. Maybe Jeff Ludwig would do it for free.
But I'm starting to get fed up enough with this direction that I'm now
ready to pull the offer of host computer entirely and say, "OK, YOU GUYS
FIGURE IT OUT."
You wrote: "We spend as much or more on miscellaneous postage & delivery
than we are talking about for forum software. In fact, there are few
things that AGA spends omoney on that cost as little. I think printing
_The Basics_ for the ACA show, cost more -- and very worthwhile
endeavor -- I'm not questioning that at all; I'm only trying to show
scale."
The Basics booklet was not a speculative project, nor is the postage and
delivery expenses. In the former, we knew exactly how much it would cost,
and we knew the goals: to provide some literature to convention-goers. We
knew every one of those booklets would go home with someone and we would
"lose" a couple bucks per book, as we were giving them out for free. We
*discussed* it on this list and agreed.
The forum project, on the other hand, is a big unknown. We have no idea
whether it will fly. I hope it will. But we don't know. Nobody may use
it.
In the meantime, we still don't have anyone leading the discussion on
remaining items to be worked out. It's going nowhere. The volunteers are
sitting there, occasionally trying to come up with a question. The forum
LEADER needs to take care of some important things, including:
* PR strategy, lock down opening date
* Finalize Topics
* Find someone to customize graphics as needed
* Verify moderation policy
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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