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Based on: http://lists.evolt.org/theforumarchive/Week-of-Mon-20030811/000286.html which came out of a brainstorm on #evolt
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What it is
It's a service that hosts applications that provide community-building tools for evolters. Most of these are actually delivered through member-only content types.
Members will be able to host their stuff easily and we can build nice things like community blogs (eg an evolters' travel blog, aggregating all the travel blog posts of members. Sabrina's just called this Better Than Blogging )
Services/Content types List
- evolters.org email address - forwarded, not hosted, but with spam-tagging en-route
- Blog. Members can also tag entries with keywords (see BetterThanBlogging below) which can drive sub-blogs. Each element can have multiple keywords, picked from a list, and members can add new ones if the one they want to use isn't there.
- Links. Kinda part of the blog thought, but needn't appear on blogs.
- Photo gallery - upload pics by FTP and it's all done including thumbnails and next/previous. This assumes that we're not going to run into bandwidth issues
- Recipes - resurrecting the old feo idea. Actually, this fits into BetterThanBlogging
- Resume/CV
- Wikis
- Personal general pages - can be submitted to workflow and become weo articles
- Jabber server tied into the global login
- BetterThanBlogging (tm)
What it is not
Essentially, a meo replacement. It's not experimental space to develop in. It will provide a rigidly restricted set of tools.
Why would I use it?
(as opposed to having a site of your own with it on)
Well you might (and might not - not everyone has access to a CMS), but
- it's easy to use (it will be!)
- it's turnkey
- it's community building with other evolters
- you're helping evolt.org
What does it cost?
Given the different things that people can do for us, and the different value of money around the world, it's going to be mad to charge a flat fee. Also, some people contribute in time, not money, and that's also OK. My only concern is that payments by paypal be lumped into something that's not going to get a large %age skimmed by Paypal. But the contribution needs to be regular.
I would expect that any evolt member giving via the subscription buttons on the support evolt.org page page would automatically qualify as would any member providing a beo mirror.
Also, there will be some kind of free initial period as it won't work until we have a critical mass (mmm Metcalfe's law) - choices are:
- Until X date
- Until X members
- A rolling X days after you sign up
