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RE: support donations (was Re: future of Looper's Delight (long)



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
>
>


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