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« Reply To This #10 on: March 26, 2007, 09:13:23 AM » |
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I'll see if optimizing/limiting feeds to certain posts can be done as well.
Cool! The reason I think this is important is that there is a huge amount of noise (good and bad) in RSS feeds, so though the full feed is good for all of us and anyone interested, the "optimized feed" would be more attractive for a blogroll, showing only the "best" stuff. Not making a value judgment, just that I know from using other feeds that they tend to get "watery"  |
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« Reply To This #11 on: March 26, 2007, 01:42:57 PM » |
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Hi Joe,
thanks for volunteering to do this FANTASTIC job to set up and maintain this site!
Quick question: Can you give us an estimate in actual costs that you will run to host this, beyond the volunteer time that you put in? I'm thinking about hosting costs, domain registration costs, etc. Please let us know if this is something you want us to help contribute to.
Thanks again,
Ramon
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"pecuniam do mutuam, ergo sum"
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Adrian
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« Reply To This #12 on: March 26, 2007, 06:52:49 PM » |
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Both thumbs up on kivafriends.org Good job Joe!
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« Reply To This #13 on: March 26, 2007, 07:00:46 PM » |
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Thanks again everyone and Ramon. Great to have you here! I love your blog and the insights on your involvment with Kiva.
About costs, they have been minuscule to be quite honest, which is why I jumped at the chance to do it after a quick assessment. The forum software was free (thanks to SMF and all those programmers). I just had to crack open the code, figure out how it worked and customize it to fit our needs with Kiva themed options and graphics. The domain is $8.95 a year, from the GoDaddy registrar. And I used a promotional code so I actually got the first year for about $7.35 (love pinching pennies; more to put into Kiva). As for hosting costs, I currently maintain a dedicated web server that is about $200 a month. However, it pays for itself through my work as a local web designer. Since this project was piggybacked onto that server to take advantage of unused hosting resources available (instead of going out and paying someone like Yahoo Hosting $20/month), I consider the current hosting costs of KivaFriends $0.00/month.
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Shawn - Agent of Change
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« Reply To This #14 on: March 27, 2007, 04:50:06 AM » |
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Fantastic work and look forward to watching the community grow!
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Samantha
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Viva Kiva!
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« Reply To This #15 on: March 27, 2007, 11:20:35 AM » |
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So this entire project cost you Seven Dollars and Thirty Five Cents?!  That is so awesome!!! Perhaps moreso is your honesty about it. I wondered why there wasn't a PayPal button anywhere to collect money for operating costs as was originally suggested on the Yahoo email exchanges. |
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« Reply To This #16 on: March 27, 2007, 12:57:24 PM » |
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So this entire project cost you Seven Dollars and Thirty Five Cents?! That is so awesome!!! Perhaps moreso is your honesty about it. I wondered why there wasn't a PayPal button anywhere to collect money for operating costs as was originally suggested on the Yahoo email exchanges. Must say, when I saw that amount I decided to just let Joe pay for the whole thing himself. And its very awesome! |
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I get up in the morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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« Reply To This #17 on: March 28, 2007, 08:43:48 AM » |
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Wow. Wow wow wow wow wow.
It seems so easy.
Why can't the entire world run this way?
Thanks for doing this.
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The camera adds 10 pounds. 8 cameras are on me.
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« Reply To This #18 on: March 30, 2007, 02:27:25 PM » |
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Must say, when I saw that amount I decided to just let Joe pay for the whole thing himself.
And its very awesome!
Must say, when I saw that amount I was tempted for the first time to offer to pay for the whole thing myself.  |
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Kivafriends.org scrambled and respelled is "Risk And Forgive." Of course, it also can be respelled "Asked For Virgin" and "Darer of Vikings" and even "Vinegar For Kids" but those are a lot less interesting.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Smack a man upside the head with a fish and you have his complete attention.
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« Reply To This #19 on: April 12, 2007, 12:24:56 AM » |
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Hello Joe and everyone,
I love that this site exists; I look forward to reading and typing more. Joe, I feel like an idiot saying this, but I cannot figure out what or where the profile link is, so I can add to my member page and perhaps upload a photo as well. Could you, or someone, anyone, explain how I would do this? Make it Real Simple please. I won't feel insulted if you over-explain.
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