Re: Funding
Hiya,
At the risc of sounding too informal: COOL!!!
Luis.
At 22:04 -0500 18/3/99, Lloyd R. Prentice wrote:
>Hi Luis,
>
>I think your suggestion is a good idea.
>
>Over the past two years I've been developing a mega Cold Fusion web
>application that could provide an outstanding infrastructure for the
>newsletter and other MISC-related projects.
>
>The system, called Decisive Events, is designed as a web-based
>conference planning, promotion, and management system. We're developing
>it for a major IT advisory company, but I own the code. Many of the
>functions and features could very easily be adapted to support a variety
>of things that would be useful to the MISC communitity. Among many
>other things, it has a complete conference registration system that
>could very easily be adapted to maintain a paid circulation list, a set
>of very powerful web-based site management tools, a e-mail "blast"
>feature, a "delegate directory" that enables conference delegates to
>share basic bio information and messages, a conference evaluation tool
>that could support surveys, copius reports, etc., etc.
>
>One thing I've been thinking about to support the MISC effort and to
>raise money for future fab runs, etc., is a series of interactive
>tutorials on such topics as Forth, MISC concepts, FPGAs, etc., etc.,
>etc. This would complement the newsletter very nicely, and be a powerful
>way to disseminate MISC ideas and technology. Even with low "tuition"
>fees, it could be a powerful money maker since there's enormous hunger
>for accessable information about cutting-edge technologies.
>
>I've been thinking about this for awhile in relation to another project
>that I've have in mind, but it would dovetail nicely with MISC needs.
>
>We're bringing a site public in a few days that was built under this
>system. You can see it in pre-release now at http://zeke.gigaweb.com
>then select Europe IT Forum '99. (Please Don't look at the other
>choices.)
>
>Behind this site is an incredible set of management tools.
>
>You can see a more about my company at http://paisite.com.
>
>I'm going to be very busy until late June, but I'm planning to bring the
>system up on my own server as soon as I can after that.
>
>I offer this as a suggestion, but I'm certainly open to other
>approaches.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Lloyd R. Prentice
