[Theforum] evolt.org revamp comment period open

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sun Feb 2 13:59:12 CST 2003


On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, .jeff wrote:

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> > From: Martin Burns
> >
> > At present, meo costs evolt.org money, and benefits a
> > small number of people (me included) by offering
> > something which other places do better.
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> this portion of the conversation needs to stop until someone can come
> forward with actual numbers the various services are costing us.

Disagree.

It's an integral part of the package, which is essentially:
1) Cut costs where possible
2) Bring in sustainable revenue through an improved meo as donations
aren't cutting it

Looking at meo in isolation:

1) It's using bandwidth, therefore adding costs.
2) It's intended purpose (a learning space) is a second-rate version of
   what's done better elsewhere.
3) What it could be (ie somewhat along the lines of what you're using it
   for now) would develop the community better
4) Enabling it as production hosting of specific applications, as a low-
   cost, yet paid option, would provide the larger part of the funding
   we actually need.

Cheers
Martin

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