RE: GSAS Message Board?

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Man, I keep missing Paul's house!  We'll be shifting into high baby gear
this month, as Kathy can start getting up next week.  Oh well.

  - Erik

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Rick Rose wrote:

> Hi Erik,
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to help us with this issue.  Your insight is very
> valuable and much appreciated.  This will be on the December Board meeting
> agenda.  In case you're available to attend, the meeting is at Paul
> Winchester's home this month.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gsas-board@thekrib.com [mailto:owner-gsas-board@thekrib.com] On
> Behalf Of Erik Olson
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 1:49 PM
> To: GSAS Board
> Subject: Re: GSAS Message Board?
> 
> Oh boy.  We've got someone in the AGA who is proposing to do this as well.  
> Good and bad week to ask me; I'm quite familiar with the concept now, but 
> sick of talking about it. :)
> 
> Some people really like the whole "forum" thing.  In fact, some folks
> visit dozens of these every day.
> 
> Personally, I don't get it, but I'm what they call a "throwback", and
> that's just me.  I don't really like having to "remember" to go visit a
> website to read stuff about GSAS every day, week, whatever; I much prefer
> the whole e-mail delivery approach.  The guy who's proposing this for the 
> AGA says there's a way to set up "notifications" in the form of e-mail 
> messages that tell you to go to the forum, so maybe that's a moot point.  
> Or maybe it's more complicated.
> 
> I will also relay the issues we're discussing on the AGA board: 
> 
> First the liability.  If there is a lot of traffic on these, and people
> use the web to read them, then ANYONE can casually come by and read them,
> and that includes our friends like Petswarehouse.com who may opt to sue
> the society based on a post.  Note that we have this problem already with 
> the "gsas-member" list, but it's somewhat protected because its web 
> interface isn't really made for casual viewing on a daily basis.  
> 
> Second, commitment.  OK, so how long has Holly been in GSAS?  Will she, 
> much like June's "co-newsletter-editor", set it up and then bail?  Lots of 
> people come in with some really cool idea and then never have the steam to 
> follow through.  What would be the worst case here?  A partially running 
> forum with nobody to turn it off, I suppose.  (c.f. Kitsap Aquarium 
> Society's website, which as far as I know is still running).  
> 
> Third, commitment.  Yeah, mention it twice.  Most forums need moderators, 
> administrators, etc.  Maybe Holly is volunteering to do it herself, but 
> most likely it will require the assistance and buy-in from other people.  
> You should spell out who these other people will be!
> 
> Technical aspects?  There are sites that do nothing but run these bulletin 
> boards.  It should be easy for her to set it up, and it would be a simple 
> link from the GSAS site to the forum site.  There can even be a subdomain 
> like forums.gsas.org that point to the host (which could save us a few 
> bucks on domain registrations).  In my younger days, I would volunteer to 
> actually set up the program, but this definitely would have to be done 
> elsewhere.
> 
> Anyway, that's my take. 
> 
>   - Erik
> 
> 
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Rick Rose wrote:
> 
> > Hi Erik,
> > 
> > At last month's board meeting, the board discussed the concept of a
> "message
> > board" as suggested by Holly Jackson in her email (to all the members!)
> > below.  There was both enthusiasm and reluctance expressed.  We ultimately
> > decided to ask for your analysis and estimation of the idea of her setting
> > up a message board on behalf of GSAS.
> > 
> > Any pro's, con's, and opinions would be appreciated as the item was tabled
> > for further discussion at this month's board meeting.  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gsas-member@thekrib.com [mailto:owner-gsas-member@thekrib.com]
> > On Behalf Of Holly Jackson
> > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:59 PM
> > To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> > Subject: Hello everybody!
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > I am also wondering if any of you would be interested in a message board
> to
> > use to communicate with GSAS members.  I was thinking it would be a very
> > easy and organized way to keep track of messages, do searches for specific
> > topics, share photos, etc.  If that interests some of you let me know. I
> > have a website with quality hosting and it would be very easy for me to
> set
> > up a message board for GSAS.  The format is actually the same as the one
> > that PSAS uses if you want to take a look.  http://www.thepsas.org/
> >  
> > Holly ~
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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