Greetings, Welcome to the Canterbury Software (CS) email forum, and thanks for your patience in the past few days. As this message demonstrates, the forum is now up and running, operating from its temporary home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At present, the forum should relay messages fairly quickly during the day but they be delayed outside business hours. After the forum's move to its permanent home in July, it will operate 24 hours a day and will support a few other niceties such as daily or weekly digests. There are roughly two dozen people signed up to the forum at present, and any of us can send a message to everyone else simply by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are familiar with two-way email list-servers, all of this will be second nature. For those less familiar with this medium, the important thing to remember is that any message you send to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including replies to other messages, will be seen by *everyone* currently signed up. And the corollary is that if you reply privately (i.e. directly to the sender of the message), nobody on this forum will see it except the person you send it to. This forum will be very lightly moderated. That means that the moderator, currently myself, may privately email somebody if s/he feels their postings are straying too far from either the overall purpose of the forum, or from the bounds of polite and informative discussion. If the problem continues, they can be removed. Also, at this time, the forum can be joined and used by both members *and* non-members of Canterbury Software, but there is every chance that it will become a closed list in future. Those minor caveats aside, this is YOUR forum, welcoming any of your questions, ideas, solutions, frustrations and suggestions on the general subject of turning good code into excellent, internationally-marketed software products and services. This means that subjects such as those listed below (a brief sampling!) are all welcome: * international marketing -- approaches, trade shows, sales trips, costs, cooperation * finance -- venture capital in NZ and elsewhere, business planning * intellectual property -- creation, protection, maximising value * networking -- mentoring, get-togethers, links with other organisations, workshops and seminars and their content * administration -- your ideas for the CS group, this list-server, the Web site, resources Later today, an email invitation to the CS launch on Wednesday June 6th will be posted on this list. Please relay it to your colleagues, friends and acquaintances to help us get off to a flying start. Finally, many thanks to those who have already RSVPed for the launch. If you haven't done so yet, you can use the form provided at http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/rsvp.htm Similarly, if you haven't yet got a listing in our nascent online CS Tech Directory yet, please add your details using the form linked from http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/directory.htm This directory is open to every technology company in the region, not just CS members. That's more than enough from me -- please review the list above, think about your own situation and needs, and let's be hearing from you! cheers, peter ============================================ Peter Hyde, WebCentre Ltd & SPIS Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand * Web automation for online periodicals: http://TurboPress.com * TurboNote+: http://TurboPress.com/tbnote.htm -- easy, small, handy onscreen sticky notes ---> Sent via the Canterbury Software email forum - Connect for Success! Email your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave or join the list at http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm
