From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Reply-To: gsas-board@thekrib.com
To: gsas-board@thekrib.com
Subject: RE: GSAS Message Board?
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 15:13:09 -0800 (PST)
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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