(urth) Funding

Adrian Robert arobert at cogsci.ucsd.edu
Wed Sep 6 05:23:24 PDT 2006


On Sep 6, 2006, at 7:21 AM, Jon Capps wrote:

> Chris Mulder wrote:
>
>> the web.  I would be willing to help fund it, as well.  What I would 
>> be
>> interested to know is what an annual cost might be, plus interest 
>> level
>> of contributors.
>
> Well, I could host a wiki at no additional cost to myself, and am 
> online
> regularly enough to admin it (but would gladly give a few list regulars
> admin/moderator authority).  The only real financial cost would come
> from getting the domain name, and that would be ~$10/year, give or 
> take,
> depending on the registrar used.  Domains can be registered for more
> than one year at a time, so it also depends on how long you want to go
> before having to renew it.
> ...
>
> But don't go throwing money around just yet.  If it is acceptable to
> have something like urthwiki.joncapps.net or wikki.urth.net instead of
> something like www.urthwiki.net, then no one needs to shell out 
> anything.

I for one would prefer wiki.urth.net.  Better to keep everything in one 
place. ;-)
Of course, that decision also depends on the administrator of urth.net.

Were all of the other issues (software, license, ability to import 
material) hashed out?




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