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I agree about subscriptions keeping newbies away completely, (this is why I said voluntary) but hey voluntary subscription, donation, whatever. Violet, you have our support :-) I like the web hosting idea too - I'm thinking of sorting one out. Peace, love and enlightenment Gareth > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:50:15 -0700 > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > From: violet@missviolet.com > Subject: Re: support donations (was Re: future of Looper's Delight (long) > > Daryl wrote: > >I like Kevin's idea a lot. I think any kind of subscription would keep > >new folks away. I'm inclined to think that an occasional appeal would > >raise all that is needed. > > I agree. I don't believe Kim would have been on board with making > subscription required to access the site. He would have wanted it to be > available to everyone. He was more of a "hey, let's all work together" > kind of guy. > > So for now, if you can help and are so inclined, please do. If you can't, > that's okay, too. Every donation is being earmarked just for the server, > so rest assured it won't be used for anything else. If there's a point > where things are looking dicey, I'll give a holler. > > When we have the site built, if we're having trouble we may add some > premium features that people could pay a few bucks a month to access (porn! > no, just kidding), things that wouldn't affect anyone's use and enjoyment > of the site, but would give donors a little something special that they > could do (like adding music clips or video to their profile pages). That's > what I was going to do for Kim anyhow, for a re-vamped Loop Artists Of The > World section; we wanted people to be able to put audio/video on their > profiles, but of course that takes up more resources and puts a heavier > load on the server, so we would have offered that as an extra feature to > help offset the cost. That way you'd be helping out, and you'd be getting > something back in return. And for people who didn't care about that, they > would still be able to SEE AND USE the entire site. Nothing would be > blocked from anyone. It's a win-win. > > One thing we don't have to think about is finding a new webhost or worry > about domain registration, as we are a webhost/registrar. (Violacea.com) > We're hosting several sites, it's just that we've always been lax about > reminding people to pay. It wasn't so critical to the server's existence > before. I'm going to have to be better organized on that now, though! > > Because we ARE a webhost, one option we have is to host more sites, so if > any of you have personal sites/blogs already, or you would like one, we'd > be happy to set it up and host it for you. In fact, I've been talking to > the people helping behind the scenes about the possibility of creating a > sort of Looper's Delight Collective, hosting loopers' sites under a group > banner ... a network of related sites. Similar to when there used to be > webrings, but these would all be HOSTED in the same place and could even be > tied into Looper's Delight (instead of having a profile page, you'd have > your own site/domain to showcase your music). > > There are a lot of possibilities. I just can't focus heavily on such > things at this moment, because, well ... you know. > > So for now, let's just take it slow. The donations you're all making are > wonderful and I'm touched by how much you care. I am SO proud of what Kim > created - what you all created together. We're doing okay so far. Please > try not to worry or scramble too much. Trust me, you'll hear me screaming > if anything really bad happens. :) > > Violet > xoxox > > Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now. |