/me hums Drupal's theme at Tobias as well. Tobias Eigen wrote: > Thanks Adam - this is all very interesting. > > I think the biggest problem I am seeing is that emails get stacked up for > approval - this really limits any real discussion that might take place here > on this list. I'd propose either opening it up or recruiting some volunteers > to help manage the approval queue on a daily if not more regular basis. > > The ning idea is a good one, especially since it's a free (advertising > driven) platform. I believe educators can get advertising-free spaces. > Another platform well suited for email-empowered online communities is > golightly, used at http://groups.nten.org > > If you are really concerned about costs for DDN into the future, then > rolling your own site might not be a great idea. > > Cheers, > > Tobias > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:07 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Thanks for the responses to our idea of what to do with DDN :) >> >> To clear somethings up: >> >> -Tobias asked if the donation for membership is voluntary or not. We have >> no intention of charging people to access DDN. What we do want to do is >> identify people who are financial supporters of DDN. We don't have a >> donation system set up yet because we wanted to make sure that it was a >> good idea first. >> >> -The wiki issue is being looked into. The system should be able to handle >> your existing DDN login information so you don't have to create two >> accounts and login to both all the time. >> >> -Taran's idea of GoogleAds is interesting and we'll have our tech team see >> how easy it is to implement. Which should be very easy. The hard part will >> be finding a space for them as we don't want GoogleAds on the front page >> of DDN has it may make the site look less credible. Any thoughts on that >> note? >> >> -Many people have suggested moving DDN to a new system. This is just as >> hard (or even harder) than keeping our current system running. We've >> though about this at TIG and were moving ahead with our system because it >> is the easiest for our developers to work on. >> >> Adam Clare >> _______________________________________________ >> DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >> DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net >> http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >> To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in >> the body of the message. >> >> > > > >
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