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By: Velvet Elvis

Velvet Elvis — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:59:03 +0000

I hit send too soon. Note that those are managed servers. The price isn’t worth it if you don’t prepay for year.

By: Velvet Elvis

Velvet Elvis — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:58:01 +0000

http://www.slhost.com/vps_solutions.html

By: ballastexistenz

ballastexistenz — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:51:13 +0000

I’m not sure. There’s someone who deals with autistics.org money stuff AFAIK but I don’t know if that person wants to give their address out or not. There’s also other options besides paypal on the front page.

By: Laura J

Laura J — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:13:31 +0000

“Laura J, and anybody else who’s willing and has the means: Donations can be made via PayPal directly on the autistics.org site.”

Is there an address where checks or cash can be sent?

By: Evonne

Evonne — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:12:05 +0000

In case I am one of those “people” who are “making this out to be impossible”, let it be known that by “it’s not in the budget to pay somebody”, I meant “Volunteers, please!”. I have no doubt that this community will step up. (And thanks, Baggses, for ssstepping up yourssselvesess. ; P) I’m just bummed that I can’t. Not because I’m too busy or whatever. Just ’cause I can’t do those techie thingies y’all mentioned.

Laura J, and anybody else who’s willing and has the means: Donations can be made via PayPal directly on the autistics.org site.

By: Mountainrose

Mountainrose — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:01:08 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Amanda on even a little progress on this…I think everyone just really wants to help…and wants to know how things are going…Hopefully when all is done the site will
be easier to manage and the glitches will be gone and there will be a list too of people who can help with this in the future as problems crop up.
I tend to worry so feedback that you are getting
some people who may be able to help is reassuring..

By: ballastexistenz

ballastexistenz — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:35:37 +0000

One of my brothers said he has experience with bind9, and I’ve given Laura his phone number.

By: Joel Smith

Joel Smith — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:32:54 +0000

For reference, I’m not saying it’s impossible, simply that it’s going to be very difficult. I want to see this work too, and I do hope some people will speak up who are able to help.

By: ballastexistenz

ballastexistenz — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:28:15 +0000

The social problems are likely nowhere near as bad as Joel makes them out to be. We’re already looking for people who have the individual skills, and we’ve found several already (not for everything yet, but for parts), so I’m not sure why people are making this out to be impossible.

By: andreashettle

andreashettle — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:21:39 +0000

Given the caveats Joel Smith gives here, I wonder if it would help to try to get multiple volunteers to divide up the work according to specific skill set? Of course the idea of multiple volunteers runs directly into the social part of the challenge, but it would at least help address the “complex skill set” part of the challenge.

Or as Kara suggests above — would it be feasible to try to hunt down a free ISP that caters to nonprofits that could take care of at least some of the more basic techy stuff for you?