I was working toward the goal of modifying the existing themes and plugins to working together easily, so I could offer this service. Unfortunately, the constant flux of Habari (not a bad thing) kept it very difficult to keep up with. I would be interested in assisting in this venture, though I wouldn't be capable of hosting them myself.
Graham Christensen http://itrebal.com - Customized Web Hosting [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arthus Erea wrote: > Even if you do not make money off it, the venture is most likely > commercial. > > You will be paying for hosting and some degree of support. > Additionally, you will be collecting user info and maintaining the > system for them. > > That is to say, while it may be free as in beer it is not free as in > speech. Any situation where there is an "administrator" is not free as > in speech and is not open source. > > Once again, I do think this is a good thing to have and /will/ benefit > Habari the Project. However, I do not think Habari the Community/PMC > should explicitly work on a non-open source Habari. > > Fantastico support is a great idea and is something which we > /should/ work towards as a community. This is because we can maintain > the ideals of open source (users can still edit their installations) > while also extending our reach. > > On Nov 11, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Andy C wrote: > >> >> Benjamin >> >> Hosted Habari blogs are a good idea. Trying to encourage more people >> to try Habari is a good idea. >> >> If you want to offer Habari blogs on your hosting to friends, >> colleagues or people who express an interest in Habari but can't be >> bothered installing it then by all means go ahead. >> >> Don't worry - I knew you were not proposing a commercial, money-making >> venture. The clue was right there in your original post where you >> said: >> >> 'I'd like to propose an attempt to start a hosting service for free >> content hosting using Habari.' >> >> I agree it's maybe a little premature right now. In the future, an >> excellent way to reach out to the masses would be to build Fantastico/ >> SimpleScripts Habari installation scripts and start approaching >> hosting companies to bundle Habari with their packaged applications >> (WP, Drupal, Joomla). However, this would need to wait until Habari >> 1.0 when the schema/API/plugins are more stable. >> >> Keep the faith and don't let them grind you down. >> -- >> Andy >> >> On Nov 11, 10:08 pm, Benjamin Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Thanks for all the input. I agree in that Habari isn't far enough in >>> development for this but some planning might be a nice idea. >>> >>> Though, not sure how anyone started to think this was a commercial idea. >>> Not sure how any profit exists in free blog hosting where you don't >>> enforce ads. And no one in their right mind would force ads because it >>> would kill Habari. Though, somehow paying for a server might be a good >>> thing to consider. >>> >>> This should be separate from the development, that makes logical sense. >>> This thread should drop off the radar then. For now, until a better >>> situation is setup, email me directly if you're interested in helping >>> with this project (ben[dot]hutchins[at]xvolter[dot]com). If enough >>> people are interested in the idea then we will peruse it, if not then it >>> can be dropped until a later date. >>> >>> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 21:46 +0000, Caius Durling wrote: >>> >>>> On 11 Nov 2008, at 21:38, Arthus Erea wrote: >>> >>>>> However, I don't think that planning should be done on this list, >>>>> or >>>>> on any Habari community property. >>> >>>>> Good luck, but please keep commercial ventures separate. >>> >>>> Hear hear. This is what I was trying to say but I fear I rambled >>>> slightly :) >>> >>>> C >>>> --- >>>> Caius Durling >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> +44 (0) 7960 268 100 >>>> http://caius.name/ >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
