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Re: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community
Subject:Re: ADMIN: An Open Letter to the TECHWR-L Community From:TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:21:48 -0400
> It's all well and good to find volunteer admins and frankly, there are
> enough talented, regular contributors I imagine we could indeed.
>
> However, that does not solve the issue of recompense to the Rays for
> setting the whole thing up and getting the 5000 members interested in the
> first place.
>
> This list is a great free resource for us at this time, but it seems
> likely we will need to think of avenues for $$ for the transition, no?
It all depends on Eric and Deb's take on the issue. My take was a
service to the community, hosted by them, partially promoting their
services and publications. Maybe they were kind of forced to take day
jobs. Maybe this was a hobby turned investment? I don't know. Eric,
Deb... what's the deal?
Now, unless something's changed recently, I seem to remember Brad
Anderson running Framers off the same Lyris server as Techwr-L. I
don't know what the implications are, if Eric and Deb are transfering
ownership of the server to Brad, if they will maintain it as a part of
Raycomm, or what.
There are a lot of unknowns.
I think the "open letter" was a bit premature, or perhaps too open, as
it seems to be generating more questions in my mind than anything
else.
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