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Of course, we could do the dirty and actually formalize a club,
and transfer ownership of such things like websites to the
club. >>> "Pieter Litchfield" <plitch attglobal net> 01/20/03 10:16AM >>> Excellent points here. My experience has been that it is often better to share links rather than create a "mega site." One big site needs a single entity to maintain it, and in a volunteer world, it sometimes doesn't happen. If we all link to each others sites, we can all keep our little corner of the ET universe maintained. It's an ownership issue. I vote for links. Pieter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darryl McMahon" <darryl econogics com> To: <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:12 AM Subject: Re: (ET) What for our future? > Harold wrote: > > > Here's my two cents, > > Keep the email discussion list.Who has time to log on to a web page to > > read it? And speaking of archives and apparatus list,let's do the best we > > can to keep everything at one place,preferably an easy address like > > elec-trak.org If you have several different people hosting different > > features on their personal webspace,how will the stuff be found? Also,it > > would seem a lot more official and proffesional on an address like > > elec-trak.org thereby prompting a lot more people (probably including me) > > to participate. Thank You, Harold Zimmerman Lancaster County,PA Wheel > > Horse C-185 w/ mower and blade. E-15 parts tractor. > > It doesn't matter where the stuff actually resides, as long as Don puts links to it > from the elec-trak.org site. The links make it look like its all in one place to > anyone using the web. That's the cosmetic perspective. > > Behind the scenes, what matters is who is doing the work, and how they feel about > the security of their webspace. For example, I have run an electric vehicle event > for several years now. This year, someone else is going to develop a website for > the 2003 edition. He suggested he could do this on my site. I declined - I am not > prepared to hand out write access to my website to someone I do not know well. > What I am doing instead is establishing multiple links to his site (whenever it is > ready) from mine so that folks can move seamlessly from one to the other. We can > do the same for the ETs. A link from elec-trak.org to the Photo Album (presuming > we get a subsection at Mike Chancey's site), and another to a text list, if we > decide we want one. > > There is a place for both. Mike and I have kept in contact for several years now > regarding the two facilities. They serve different purposes. One is organized > geographically, the other by vehicle type. And whenever I am aware of a vehicle on > my list being in the album, I set up a direct link to the album entry. > > Have a look at the two and how they work together to see what I mean. > > Suppose you are new to EVs, and want to know if there are any in your area that you > might be able to have a look at and meet an owner. I'm going to use Houston for my > example. You go to http://www.econogics.com, then the Electric Vehicles and > Related Topics page, and then the On-Road EV Inventory. Choose United States, then > Texas. Within Texas, you find the Texas-Houston entry (3 vehicles) and choose > that. Within that list there is a Fiero listed, with a link. You click on the > link, and find the EV Album entry for our own Monty McGraw's EV. > > The two are maintained separately with different functions, but can still function > together. For example, my list does not provide the names or contact information > for individuals. This was necessary to get as many people to participate as > possible. For those who are less shy, they have the option of putting up more > information on Mike's site, and it is available with just a click from the > inventory. > > > > > > Darryl McMahon http://www.econogics.com > 1973 Elec-Trak E12 electric tractor > 1974 Auranthetic Charger electric motorcycle > 1975 EVA Metro (Renault 12 conversion) electric car > 1986 Pontiac Fiero (conversion) electric car > 1997 SpinCraft Explorer electric boat > current project - B&D Model 8080 electric reel mower > next project - 1973 Porsche 914 conversion > then, Elcar parts bin project & International Harvester EV > "The Internal Combustion Engine, it's so 20th century." |