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. > -- Tobias Eigen Senior Steward - IT Global Action Networks-Net (GAN-Net) http://www.gan-net.net Executive Director Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa http://www.kabissa.org _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
