Nacho
Administrator
Ex-President of Venture Club Spain
Silver is the fastest color.
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Post by Nacho on Sept 5, 2005 9:08:36 GMT 1
Hi there friends:
I've seen that our brothers of VentureNet have some little problems with their forum over there. It is a pity that they can not get in touch with each other in these difficult days when they need MORE THAN EVER to find a good way of communication for members to get in touch.
So I had an idea early this morning and it was to create a special board, sub-board or something (whatever Falko and Bunnie may decide) for the Americans to use while their server or Forum are down.
It should be like an EMERGENCY place where they can keep posting important things while their place is not working. It could be very USEFUL now because of the Hurricane thing, but it could be used also in the future anytime they get Internet problems.
Our site is 100% free, so this could be very easy to manage and post for everybody. It should be an OPEN board where everybody could post and although writers will appear as GUESTS, at least they will have the chance to stay in touch. And if we get SPAM, we are several moderators to erase any garbage we could get.
Please think about it and if you like the idea, John or Ian could tell it to Marshall, Brent, Butch and the rest of the gang. It is as easy as to send the list of members a message similar to the ones they are sending these days but also adding a part where they can tell members to use our EMERGENCY board to stay in touch till things get back to normal.
Just thinking aloud, as always and trying to be useful.
Best regards form Spain,
Nacho.
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Falko
Administrator
Founder and Pres. of the European Venture Club
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Post by Falko on Sept 5, 2005 9:35:44 GMT 1
good idea
and we should keep such a board for the future a kind of emergency - fall back solution...
but right now Venturers.org is online again..
maybe Ian can jump on in this discussion ? can someone let him know...?
i just posted the Info about this on the Venturers.org Forum... to open the discussion...
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Post by bunnie on Sept 5, 2005 10:01:51 GMT 1
I propose to place this board in the general category and name it "Emergency Board" with the description "free usage for all Venturers to be able to communicate (includes foreign languages)"
This way the translation boards are not nessecary (or is it necesary)
FALKO :
go for it Bunnie but in this "emergeny board" pls. put sub-boards
1 for : Fallback board for Venturers.org 2 for : Fallback board for Venturerider.org and so on maybe the Spain or the French Club would like to have such a Fallback board too ?
3 a Translation service board with more subboards a) german / Deutsch b) french c) .....
x) netherlands
( we dont need to open all these boards right away i hope..., we just should be able to do this... )
( but : its only last chance to take or first chance ! - its not a normal solution ! we wont offer normal translationservisce ! - only if someone really got no englishspeaking friends / coworkers / family ! <-- and that we will tell them... !!!!! )
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Brent
foreign-venturer
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Post by Brent on Sept 5, 2005 12:46:07 GMT 1
Your idea is a good one. Hopefully the Venturers.org site will be back to 100% soon. I've spent quite a bit of time in the last few days working to keep our members informed as to how to get back on the forum. I think most of our members have access now but I cannot be sure. I really appreciate the efforts of the European Venturers helping us during this time. It surely makes me "Proud to be a Venturer".
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Post by Shooter on Sept 5, 2005 12:50:18 GMT 1
Ditto what Brent said!
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Post by johnjr on Sept 5, 2005 13:50:41 GMT 1
Yep..good idea....never know what will work thats for sure.
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