I sent him a message thru scikotics, so we will see what he says..

 

Great news everyone! Jon (Frankenscion) said we can have the website, as long as all the forum posting is on the original Scikotics website, so we can just have a Forum button that takes you directly to the scikotics forums.


Here is exactlly what he said:
As long as it has the link to our forum and a link to our main page its all good. The KC chapter has a website similar to that.

 

that's good news I guess. I have updated the site so that the forum links directly to the Scikotics Minneapolis threads on scikotics.com

You mentioned that Scikotics KC created their own site. Not to be rude or anyhting, but I think what we will have is a lot beeter than what they've got now. Check out their link below.
http://www.kcscikotics.com/Index1.htm

The site that I've set up can give you a pretty good idea of what the fiished project can look like and wha ttype of content we can have on it. Since it is editable online we can have multiple people who have access to the site who can make changes and updates.

A website does come at a small cost though. Typical web hosting costs range from $5-$10 a month and we will need to purchase a domain name as well. If everyone can donate $10 that should be enough to purchase a domain name and fund the hosting of the site for about 2 years.

Any suggestions for a domain name? I was thinking of keeping it pretty simple and going with scikoticsmn.com

 

or mnscikotics.com

either way will work i think. let me know where i can send the money to help buy domain and host time

 

Maybe we can see if a local dealer wants to sponsor, their logo can be on the page or whatever

 

How much is the Domain, and how much is the hosting?

 

I have some hosting space if we need it:

200 MB Storage
6GB Bandwidth/Day
4 Simultaneous FTP Connections
PHP/FTP/MySQL

once we get a domain name we can point it there.

I can upgrade to new plans if needed, these are all one time fees:

Platinum Plan
$4 USD
350 MB Storage
9GB Bandwidth/Day
5 Simultaneous FTP Connections
PHP/FTP/MySQL
Sign Up Order Upgrade

Titanium Plan
$12 USD
600 MB Storage
12GB Bandwidth/Day
5 Simultaneous FTP Connections
PHP/FTP/MySQL
Sign Up Order Upgrade

Extreme Plan
$24 USD
1200 MB Storage
15GB Bandwidth/Day
5 Simultaneous FTP Connections
PHP/FTP/MySQL

as for domain names, I believe we can get one cheap at godaddy.com and use the discount code DIGG or ALEX

 

lets go extreme!

 

I would rather have a dedicated server for the site rather than hosting it on anyones server that's already set up. This eliminated any complications that might arise form any personal problems.

As I mentioned in my previous post, we can get hosting for about $5 a month and some hosts fill throw in a free domain name. This site http://www.siteground.com/joomla-hos...ferrerid=25271 has the best deales and I have used them in the past.

Got raising the money, I'm not sure if one of the Scikotics MN leaders wants to get up an account with Paypal for our Scikotics group so that we can contribute that way. Once the site is up we can feature the account on there as well so that we can use it to domate whanever we feel we have a few extra pennies.

 

We might have found a sponsor, i just need to know the cost, so we can see if that can work with them, so i just need a $$ amount so i can run it past them.

 

any update on this?

 

nothin'

 

need access to site =/, where's nick?

 

I've been throwing around ideas in my head on the main scikotics website. Who is the web admin for the site?

What I was planning on creating:
- Backend run by vBulletin (current forum on the site)
- use OpenID as the user authentication (more on that in a bit) *
- each chapter has a prefix domain (eg. mn.scikotics.com), but they do not have to have one. **
- create a unique scikotics theme for vbulletin

* OpenID is a universal login program. its formatted as username.domain.com (eg. chanman.scikotics.com). But if you log in on the scikotics website,you do not need to add the .scikotics.com.

here is a video of how openID works.

** for chapters that have there own site already, they do don't have to use the default url, and can have the browser just forward users to there own site. This is where openID comes in. They can log in to there website to add events or whatever without having to code up there own authentication system. This requires a custom CMS, but should be easy to code up as it should just need to pass info to vbulletin and the same code can be used for all chapters. Events would be a forum post with a flag stating its a "Event." creating a rollcall plug-in shouldn't be hard either.

there's probably other things I was thinking about but can't remember them, but yea...that's my idea.

I've also be fooling around with Joomla (thanks nick) and its very easy to use. hopefully we can get the MN scikotics up and running soon.

 

RL scion is interested in sponsoring the site... we just need to get nick to let you have access aswell so you can implement your ideas as well... we need to get this site up and runnin folks!

 

how much is RL scion willing to give in their sponsoring? Before we can get anything up and running, we need to get our own server space and purchase a domain name.

For those of us here that want to help contribute to the site I guess we could do a little fund raising on Saturday at Afton Alps.

 

if we can get a mostly finished website tha \t loks good and pretty and an estimate of whow much $ we need Nancy can show it to her surperiors and request the money

 

ok, what I'll do then is purchase the domain name and then move the current site to a different location on my server. We need to choose a domain name that everyone agrees upon.

I added a poll so please vote on any of the names or make a suggestion.

 

Definitly not scikotics-tc, people may think its only for tC's, its kind of confusing for non scikotics.. i voted for mnscikotics.com

 

/\ thats exactly what i was thinking /\