[Marketing] evolters.org - what could it be?

[Martin Burns]

On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 12:50  am, isaac wrote:

>  - What would happen to MEO as it stands?
>
> MEO could be incorporated into evolters.org. Webspace and email accounts
> would alias to evolters.org equivalents.
>
> evolters.org may as well be the "prettier face" of an upgraded MEO.
> i.e.,
> same box and all that.
>
>
> Standard accounts for students/learners would remain (maybe 2MB --
> enough to
> write some scripts and host a test database, etc?) -- free for genuine
> learners.
>
> People using MEO for their blogs/photo galleries (I fall into the latter
> group), etc would be encouraged to upgrade to a premium subscription
> (15MB
> of space, the email account, and all of the other stuff mentioned in my
> previous email of this thread).

Alternative:

Keep MEO as the cost-free learning space, but restrict it so that you
can't use it for anything else.

One way to do this:
Require that all content served has to be password protected - you can't
open it to the world.
Also throttle the bandwidth waaaay back so it's no damned use for
multiple people accessing it.
(we also stop pushing the fact that it's free - sure it stays free, but
that sinks into the background
a bit)

If you want to keep production space, you upgrade. That's the stick, but
you also have the carrot of joining in with the rest of the evolters
thing.

If you like, MEO is a thelist space - quite work focused, while evolters
is much more thechat zeitgeist.

Maybe part of that is making evolters.org somewhere where all the tools
you need are there, and you don't need to build them yourself.

So if you want a photo-gallery, the backend is there and you can
customise the front-end. Same with a blog - you've got some blog product
which ties in to the main evolters.org ACL for authentication and
provides all the backend functionality you need, and all you need to do
is the look/feel plus worrying about what you're going to say.

Cheers
Martin
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