FYI - BAO

Please circulate as you see fit.
Craig


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Craig & Joe:

All of the database functions for the site are in place.  Members may
commit to polling, charting posts and displaying data about member posts
(rate, etc.), uploading data files including charts and graphs of
experiments, etc.

Let me know of there are any problems with the size limitations for
upload and remind folks that upload means that it will be displayed on
the board; it is not an attachment that someone must download and
display separately.  This allows the user to read the post and look at
the chart or graph simultaneously.

Additionally we are nearly finished developing the subject and key word
charting function.  All of the search data base functions are complete.


Finally, in the next few days we will have the export archive to HTML
feature finished.  This will allow you to archive each area of the web
forum to a public HTML that can be searched via the internet (Google or
Lycos for example). This will stop the size of the database from
becoming to large forcing the site run slowly (which clearly we do not
want), but still allows folks to view and cite posts that were made from
the communities inception.

I was hanging out in the Community Chat room and a couple of folks
stopped by to have a chat about the community itself and the mission,
etc., it was fun.  The one problem that we still need to work out is
that the "live" chat should also be saved and archived for future
reference.  We are still working on this portion of the database.  All
of the work that we are now doing will not effect the normal operations
of the current database.

An initial congratulations, the population of the community has grown x7
in two days. What is important for those who want the community to
become a viable social experiment is that VIP's and Moderators are
assigned for each of the topics that appear in the community.  While I
believe that the contribution method of earning your way to the top is
excellent, you must initially set up some moderators and VIP's to get
the "pumps primed". Then they must go to those discussion topics and
begin to set up sub topics and invite others who would enjoy the
discussion. If this does not happen, then people may become members, but
the community itself may not flourish.

If anyone needs assistance they should send a private message "PM" from
within the community forum.  This is most easily accomplished by
entering the User Centre and clicking on members in the upper right hand
corner and then selecting PM next to my name. Let's create a REAL online
community!

Please communicate any other needs.

F. Nietzsche
BAO.ORG