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Arturo Ramos wrote:
I volunteer to set up the site with the interactive family tree
software I have on my site currently and to include a bulletin board
system that we can use similar to this list.
this sounds good to me if the membership would like to go in this
direction. Maybe it will be different this time but in times past I
have had trouble getting folks to vote and a move of this nature would
need a bare minimum 51% vote in favor of such actions.
We would need to either get small donations to cover a cost of about
$150 a year for hosting
we currently have 93 members of which I'd say that 85 would be left
after all said and done. So lets say 75 were willing to do this then
that would be $2 per member am I right?
or try to make that money back through
advertising on the site... We can get Google ads on the site and as
long as people click through on the ads enough, we will probably be
able to make back the cost (depending on how many users there are and
how often people go on the site).
My cost estimate is for a hosting package that would give us 3GB of
storage. People could upload files in addition to their GEDCOMs.
All of the family information would be searchable by name, place,
etc. and could be searchable on a tree-specific basis or the entire
database could be searched at once. Of course these functions would
only be available for registered members. How many are there?
93
joseph
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
20mb + 20mb + 30mb
yes yes yes, if about 5-10 people would take and open up a site
like
yours then I could reopen the main files area for everyone to use
as
they please. Actually we could completely clear out the genealogies
and
put them all in the links area of the group if everyone just made a
website for themselves.
joseph
arturoramos2 wrote:
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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