Posted by Rees Midgley (rmidgley@…>)
I have also used forums, such as the one at SawmillCreek.org and feel they are much better for our purposes than what we are doing.One of the advantages of e-mail is that the info gets pushed to all users and this provides incentive to keep up. A disadvantage is the collection of more in-box mail than one might want. Any chance, Geoff, that the proposed forum can generate an RSS feed to all users who want to be updated whenever something new is posted? A forum should provide some huge advantages such as the ready-association of images with message-text (currently our e-mail), storage of relevant items like newsletters, manuals, tables… and the archiving of everything in a readily searchable fashion. I strongly support this move and would be delighted to contribute. Who will be taking the lead, George Huffman, Robert, or you, Geoff, or whom? - ReesOn Dec 3, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Geoffrey Schultz wrote:I’ve implemented several forums and find that PHPBB is very easy to work with and loaded with features. It’s free and has a active support forum for questions/problems. An example of a forum using it can be found at http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewforum.php?f=46 As far as web hosting sites, I currently have well over 1 GB of data in 2 sites that I manage and adding a low volume forum like the Freedom owners would be nothing. My own personal site gets over 250,000 visitors a year and I don’t begin to come close the the 8GB bandwith limits of my account.I would be glad to implement the forum and host it on my on www.pair.com hosting site. I’ll even pony up for a domain name and anyone wishing to contribute towards it can ship me a few bucks via paypal.As far as moving the existing forum data, I don’t see any way to do it other than manually, which would be a huge effort. I’d just leave it for postarity.-- Geoffwww.geoffschultz.org
Posted by Geoffrey Schultz (geoff.freedom@geoffschultz.org>)
I’ve created a “straw” version of the forum on my web site. Once a
general consensus is reached that this is something that people want
to do and like the general structure, I’ll obtain a domain name and
transfer access to it. Yod can access it at
http://www.geoffschultz.org/phpBB3/
Right now visitors are allowed read-only access to the forum. If you
want to post, simply register an account and log in.
Please remember that the structure is not cast in stone. I’m more
than willing to make any changes that users want.
I’ve created a basic set of sub-forums within the main forum. There
are as follows:
Electronics
Engines and Mechanical Systems
Rigging and Sails
Manuals and Documentation
Photographs, Drawings, Etc
Cruising Discussions
Racing Discussions
Random Chatter
Buy, Sell or Trade
Events and Announcements
Forum News and Feedback
Please suggest any changes/additions/etc within the “Forum News and
Feedback” section.
Please give this a look and feel free to speak your mind.
– Geoff
Posted by george huffman (thatboatguy2@…>)
Hey Rees,Geoff is taking the lead. Fortunately for us he is well versed in this arena and is also familiar with RSS feeds. I know for certain that it’s possible to set up the forum software so that one may “subscribe” to a particular thread and be notified when that thread has been updated. You are absolutely correct about associating pictures with text. Also links to URL’s One example is a recent project of mine. I put together a Webasto diesel heater from parts. Literally I had a Webasto in a box sold to me dissassembled as far as one can be taken appart and I put it all together again. I ran it on the bench last night and it works perfectly! Now the above paragraph leaves an awful lot to the imagination. Think about how much more interesting it would be with photos. I could also
show photos of the part that failed in the first place and the remedial action. All of these little Webastos and Espars pretty much function the same way and by knowing how it is supposed to work I was able to assemble one from a box of parts. It’s not a bad little tutorial to have around. George— On Wed, 12/3/08, Rees Midgley <rmidgley@…> wrote:From: Rees Midgley <rmidgley@…>Subject: Re: [FreedomOwnersGroup] Re: New Forum for Freedom Owners?To: FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.comDate: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 10:26 PM
I have also used forums, such as the one at SawmillCreek. org and feel they are much better for our purposes than what we are doing.One of the advantages of e-mail is that the info gets pushed to all users and this provides incentive to keep up. A disadvantage is the collection of more in-box mail than one might want. Any chance, Geoff, that the proposed forum can generate an RSS feed to all users who want to be updated whenever something new is posted? A forum should provide some huge advantages such as the ready-association of images with message-text (currently our e-mail), storage of relevant items like newsletters, manuals, tables… and the archiving of everything in a readily searchable fashion. I strongly support this move and would be delighted to contribute. Who will be taking the lead, George Huffman,
Robert, or you, Geoff, or whom? - ReesOn Dec 3, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Geoffrey Schultz wrote:I’ve implemented several forums and find that PHPBB is very easy to work with and loaded with features. It’s free and has a active support forum for questions/problems. An example of a forum using it can be found at http://www.phpbb. com/community/ viewforum. php?f=46 As far as web hosting sites, I currently have well over 1 GB of data in 2 sites that I manage and adding a low volume forum like the Freedom owners would be nothing. My own personal site gets over 250,000 visitors a year and I don’t begin to come close the the 8GB bandwith limits of my account.I would be glad to implement the forum and host it on my on www.pair.com hosting site. I’ll even pony up for a domain name and anyone wishing to contribute towards it can ship me a few bucks via paypal.As far as moving the existing forum data, I don’t see any way to do it other than manually, which would be a huge effort. I’d just leave it for postarity.-- Geoffwww.geoffschultz. org
Posted by George Huffman (thatboatguy2@…>)
Looks great Geoff,
I’ve linked a few photos from here and also imageshack. Very kind of
you to have allowed us to upload photos and other attachments directly
to your server as this simplifies things to point and click. This is
a banner day for Freedom owners the world over.
Thanks
George
— In FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com, “Geoffrey Schultz”
<geoff.freedom@…> wrote:
I’ve created a “straw” version of the forum on my web site. Once a
general consensus is reached that this is something that people want
to do and like the general structure, I’ll obtain a domain name and
transfer access to it. Yod can access it athttp://www.geoffschultz.org/phpBB3/
Right now visitors are allowed read-only access to the forum. If you
want to post, simply register an account and log in.Please remember that the structure is not cast in stone. I’m more
than willing to make any changes that users want.I’ve created a basic set of sub-forums within the main forum. There
are as follows:Electronics
Engines and Mechanical Systems
Rigging and Sails
Manuals and Documentation
Photographs, Drawings, Etc
Cruising Discussions
Racing Discussions
Random Chatter
Buy, Sell or Trade
Events and Announcements
Forum News and FeedbackPlease suggest any changes/additions/etc within the “Forum News and
Feedback” section.Please give this a look and feel free to speak your mind.
– Geoff
Posted by andre laviolette (andrelaviolette@…>)
Sound good !"Scaramanga " F25— On Thu, 12/4/08, George Huffman <thatboatguy2@…> wrote:From: George Huffman <thatboatguy2@…>Subject: [FreedomOwnersGroup] Re: New Forum for Freedom Owners?To: FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.comReceived: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 9:57 AM
Looks great Geoff,
I’ve linked a few photos from here and also imageshack. Very kind of
you to have allowed us to upload photos and other attachments directly
to your server as this simplifies things to point and click. This is
a banner day for Freedom owners the world over.
Thanks
George
— In FreedomOwnersGroup@ yahoogroups. com, “Geoffrey Schultz”
<geoff.freedom@ …> wrote:
I’ve created a “straw” version of the forum on my web site. Once a
general consensus is reached that this is something that people want
to do and like the general structure, I’ll obtain a domain name and
transfer access to it. Yod can access it athttp://www.geoffsch ultz.org/ phpBB3/
Right now visitors are allowed read-only access to the forum. If you
want to post, simply register an account and log in.Please remember that the structure is not cast in stone. I’m more
than willing to make any changes that users want.I’ve created a basic set of sub-forums within the main forum. There
are as follows:Electronics
Engines and Mechanical Systems
Rigging and Sails
Manuals and Documentation
Photographs, Drawings, Etc
Cruising Discussions
Racing Discussions
Random Chatter
Buy, Sell or Trade
Events and Announcements
Forum News and FeedbackPlease suggest any changes/additions/ etc within the “Forum News and
Feedback” section.Please give this a look and feel free to speak your mind.
– Geoff
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Posted by Thomas Wales (twales@…>)
Hi Geoff,
Will this new forum require members to actively log on to
participate? If so, I’ll miss reading the posts that I automatically
receive through the Yahoo group as it exists today. Perhaps you
could explain how the new forum will actually work.
Thanks,
TW
At 08:17 AM 12/4/2008, you wrote:
I’ve created a “straw” version of the forum on my web site. Once a
general consensus is reached that this is something that people want
to do and like the general structure, I’ll obtain a domain name and
transfer access to it. Yod can access it at<http://www.geoffschultz.org/phpBB3/>http://www.geoffschultz.org/phpBB3/
Right now visitors are allowed read-only access to the forum. If you
want to post, simply register an account and log in.Please remember that the structure is not cast in stone. I’m more
than willing to make any changes that users want.I’ve created a basic set of sub-forums within the main forum. There
are as follows:Electronics
Engines and Mechanical Systems
Rigging and Sails
Manuals and Documentation
Photographs, Drawings, Etc
Cruising Discussions
Racing Discussions
Random Chatter
Buy, Sell or Trade
Events and Announcements
Forum News and FeedbackPlease suggest any changes/additions/etc within the “Forum News and
Feedback” section.Please give this a look and feel free to speak your mind.
– Geoff
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Posted by Bob (rweeks6508@…>)
I agree. I am just been watching this thread on a new site but have not said anything. Yeah I know that good! Anyway the forum is just what its meant for “tell talk about it” or in this case write about it. I look forward to see all this banter because there is a wealth of information in every email except the one “do you want to meet some cute girls”! A place to archive files or a place to put up pictures or how to do projects like SeaKnot is an excellant idea but should be used in conjunction with this forum not a replacement. Just my opinion…BobOn Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Thomas Wales wrote:Hi Geoff, Will this new forum require members to actively log on to participate? If so, I’ll miss reading the posts that I automatically receive through the Yahoo group as it exists today. Perhaps you could explain how the new forum will actually work. Thanks, TW At 08:17 AM 12/4/2008, you wrote: >I’ve created a “straw” version of the forum on my web site. Once a >general consensus is reached that this is something that people want >to do and like the general structure, I’ll obtain a domain name and >transfer access to it. Yod can access it at > >< http://www.geoffsch ultz.org/ phpBB3/> http://www.geoffsch ultz.org/ phpBB3/> >Right now visitors are allowed read-only access to the forum. If you >want to post, simply register an account and log in. > >Please remember that the structure is not cast in stone. I’m more >than willing to make any changes that users want. > >I’ve created a basic set of sub-forums within the main forum. There >are as follows: > >Electronics >Engines and Mechanical Systems >Rigging and Sails >Manuals and Documentation >Photographs, Drawings, Etc >Cruising Discussions >Racing Discussions >Random Chatter >Buy, Sell or Trade >Events and Announcements >Forum News and Feedback > >Please suggest any changes/additions/ etc within the “Forum News and >Feedback” section. > >Please give this a look and feel free to speak your mind. > >-- Geoff > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg. com>Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.13/1827 - Release Date: >12/3/2008 5:41 PM
Posted by Geoffrey Schultz (geoff.freedom@geoffschultz.org>)
You’ll be able to receive daily or weekly “digests” of posts from that
period. For the more technical in the group, we’'ll also have RSS
feeds which provide info on news posts via your web browser.
You won’t be able to reply via e-mail, but I personally hate that as
there are too many people who include the entire previous text of the
post along with extensive signature lines. Listen, if you can’t
figure out how to reply without a 10 line signature line with tons of
disclosure info, you shouldn’t be using that method!
– Geoff
— In FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Wales <twales@…>
wrote:
Hi Geoff,
Will this new forum require members to actively log on to
participate? If so, I’ll miss reading the posts that I automatically
receive through the Yahoo group as it exists today. Perhaps you
could explain how the new forum will actually work.
Thanks,
TWAt 08:17 AM 12/4/2008, you wrote:
I’ve created a “straw” version of the forum on my web site. Once a
general consensus is reached that this is something that people want
to do and like the general structure, I’ll obtain a domain name and
transfer access to it. Yod can access it at<http://www.geoffschultz.org/phpBB3/>http://www.geoffschultz.org/phpBB3/
Right now visitors are allowed read-only access to the forum. If you
want to post, simply register an account and log in.Please remember that the structure is not cast in stone. I’m more
than willing to make any changes that users want.I’ve created a basic set of sub-forums within the main forum. There
are as follows:Electronics
Engines and Mechanical Systems
Rigging and Sails
Manuals and Documentation
Photographs, Drawings, Etc
Cruising Discussions
Racing Discussions
Random Chatter
Buy, Sell or Trade
Events and Announcements
Forum News and FeedbackPlease suggest any changes/additions/etc within the “Forum News and
Feedback” section.Please give this a look and feel free to speak your mind.
– Geoff
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.13/1827 - Release Date:
12/3/2008 5:41 PM