Hi All: It seems like we have a large consensus in agreement to our evolt.org revamp project. The main presented points are: - Move towards a new hosting environment in order to dramatically reduce our current hosting costs. - Move out of Oracle DBs to avoid licensing problems and costs - Transform members.evolt.org into something that is more of a community building service (evolters.org), while doing the best to offer painless transfer (away) options to our current m.e.o. users. - Find ways for the evolters.org service to generate steady income to keep evolt.org stable in the long term. - Redesign our front end coding to offer yet better levels of usability and compatibility with standards. You can read the full proposal at: http://lists.evolt.org/theforumarchive/Week-of-Mon-20030127/006988.html By this note, we are calling a simple YES / NO vote to have a tangible agreement before proceeding to define the details in the particular subgroups. The vote closes on Friday this week. If you're interested in having a say and giving a hand in these huge tasks, you can join our committees: - Finance http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/finance - Sysadmin http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin - Design and Development http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/desdev - Marketing http://lists.evolt.org/marketingarchive/ - Content http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/content Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ email: martin at easyweb.co.uk PGP ID: 0xA835CCCB martin at members.evolt.org snailmail: 30 Shandon Place tel: +44 (0)774 063 9985 Edinburgh, url: http://www.easyweb.co.uk Scotland