Re: Member's Profiles

["arturoramos2" <arturo.ramos2@...>]

Alicia:

I can't seem to figure out where the profiles section is.  Can you be 
a little more explicit as to how to go about changing this?

Joseph:

How much storage space are you using now with all of the Ranchos 
groups and briefcase combined?  How many members are there?  Is 
anybody storing anything more sophisticated than their GEDCOM data 
that they are then transmitting in various formats (Word, PDF, etc.)

Check out my family website (I will send you the link in an email) 
and see if you think this might be a possible alternative, where 
people could upload their GEDCOM files (minus living individuals) and 
we can simply restrict access completely to members.  In addition, we 
could use the bulletin board there in lieu of this group and people 
can sign up for more specific areas of interest to receive email 
notification, i.e. by specific geography or topic of posting, etc.

We could probably host a site like this for $10-$20 a month if the 
database is not too big.



--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@p...> wrote:
> Joseph, 
>  
> I have recently been perusing the members' profiles and noticed 
that there are many people who have blank profiles. The profiles 
section allows us to post some favorite links, a little about each of 
us, one photograph and a favorite quote, it even entices you to 
create a free web page via yahoo/geocities.com. Even I the clumsy non-
techy person was able to create a very simple page. I would encourage 
others to do the same and while I like the who's who I think we 
should also take the time to fill out the member profiles.
>  
> I am slowly but surely advancing in my research and would be 
willing to put a link to my homepage with some of my geneaological 
data once I submit it. I realize that it would be public and not 
private but I would not be putting any data for living family members.
>  
>  
> Alicia
>  
> 
> 
> Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Pacorro73@a... wrote:
> 
>   I look forward to checking out any of your submissions to the 
files section of Ranchos, if Joseph allows it.
> 
> 
> I do! In fact I allow every member (that's the requirement for 
members only). . .I allow each and every member to go to the files 
and links areas of the group and look into (thoroughly study is more 
like it) the individual folders and links to personal webpages of 
each other in search of more family connections. 
> 
> I do. . .in fact I'm a firm believer that the words "I do" are too 
tame. When my wife and I got married in 1995 the justice of the peace 
said "do you Joseph take Figen to be your lawfully wedded wife?" my 
reply was not "I do", but rather "Absolutely without a doubt." 
> 
> Yes the files and links are open and will continue to be open to 
all members of the group without restriction. The only restriction is 
in the modification of the files that are in currently submitted. The 
reason there is a restriction is because I am doing all in my power 
to keep Ranchos, Free. I don't want to have to charge a small fee to 
be part of this group. That being the case I'm juggling Ranchos, 
Ranchos2, and now YahooBriefcase to find solutions to our growing 
need for additional file space. I closed user modification of the 
Ranchos file space but that doesn't mean the files there can't be 
modified. A simple email to me and I will Add, Remove or even 
completely delete all entires. I'm open to helping do whatever needs 
to be done. I just don't have the solution to leaving it open and 
possibly maxing out the alloted 20megs of space and be in situation 
where people who have their files there already wouldn't be able to 
make additions. I would hate for one person to have to have
>  part of his/her work in the main files area and another part in 
the YahooBriefcase area. Therefore I closed it with about 20% of the 
space remaining for the members there (a majority of us) to make 
additions as needed. 
> 
> I'm open to ideas if anyone would like to tackle this problem. The 
easiest solution would be to hire a megasite with unlimited storage 
capacity and hire a technician to handle the technical end of it (not 
me) and go from there. 
> 
> Yes, I'm not happy with the situation, but can anyone figure out a 
Free alternative other than Ranchos3, Ranchos4, Ranchos5, etc.?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> joseph
> 
> 
> 
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