Now is a good time to put together a plan on how this would be done, what the actual requirements and tasks would be to pull it off, and how to market and promote it.
Firming up the "why" and "how" while finishing up the "what" is a smart approach ;-) While you're at it, you can take the time to consider whether you want to pursue funding, and if so what approach is needed to get what you want - and if not, what investments you have to make in order to launch, and reasonable projections of overhead & operating costs until you reach break-even. Oh yeah, how is it going to get paid for? ;-) I went through this with Mambo, then Joomla - the name switch ultimately sapped our resources and energy and we all basically fizzled out at the same time - and watched Drupal do this with Acquia. I've been quiet with work and personal schtuff so have been totally silent around here - but I can certainly help on the business side, and point out the spectacular blunders of my past in the hopes you don't have to experience them in the first-person. -- Mitch On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Chris Meller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've actually put a lot of thought into this, particularly as we recently > moved servers and it got me to thinking about the administration and scaling > side of this kind of massive setup. > > I would love to see a hosted Habari offering, but I'm not sure we're ready > for that yet. There's still so much day-to-day flux in the SVN codebase and > so much outdated / non-working stuff in the latest 0.5 release, that I think > maintaining any kind of large hosted system would be too complex and > time-consuming currently. > > Add to that a lack of themes, which should hopefully start to become less of > an issue after we address some themeing concurns in 0.7, and a "rough" > multi-site capability (to say the least) and it seems like we're a little > too early entering the game on all sides. > > Personally, I think we would only be able to offer a poor showing if we were > to pursue something like this at present. I would rather wait a few more > versions (or possibly for a 1.0) and really knock peoples socks off then > than toss out a ho-hum service now. > > If anyone has other ideas or opinions, please chime in... > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Benjamin Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> As many people know Wordpress has their Wordpress.com service where >> you can get a free blog hosted via their free service. Where is >> Habari.com (this domain is registered, it is a figure of speech)? >> >> I'd like to propose an attempt to start a hosting service for free >> content hosting using Habari. The restrictions may have to be talked >> about, so we can do so here, but I myself would be willing to host >> these users. I currently have multiple servers I pay an overpriced >> hosting bill for to have them hosted at my local datacenter. I have >> enough resources to maintain hosting for multiple hundreds of Habari's >> until I would have to even consider getting an upgrade. >> >> Managing all these users would be my problem though. When Habari >> updates come around I would easily create a script to go in and modify >> all the files and what not, but that may prove to be an issue with >> custom modifications. Though I can of coarse not permit FTP/SSH access >> to the blog files which would simplify this. Maybe access to the user >> directory only, where they can modify plugins, themes, custom classes, >> and files on their own. Meaning all System files could be replaced. >> >> Support would become an issue to, I would need help from the Habari >> Community to give these users support. From common questions to >> debugging their mess ups users would be emailing support. >> >> Costs might become a problem if we as a community decide to host >> somewhere else for this service. As I mentioned I could host this but >> that is only one suggestion, we would do things in many ways. I am new >> the community but am trying to get myself involved, however there are >> users who have been here for years who might think it better not to >> start a service with someone who hasn't been around long, completely >> understandable. >> >> In any case, I think a service such as this would increase the number >> of Habari users quickly. Please vote if you would think this is an >> idea we should talk more about or drop it now and potentially bring it >> up at a later date. >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
