This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D6DBC7F7DE45F4150236CA26 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------D6DBC7F7DE45F4150236CA26 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by franklin.lisco.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA13059 for <njennings@lisco.net>; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:34:47 -0600 (CST) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA28197; Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:31:53 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:31:53 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812262135.NAA14653@bl-5.rootsweb.com> Old-To: Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> Old-cc: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com, "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: Income needed In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 26 Dec 1998 14:55:44 CST. <199812262056.OAA03091@netdoor.com> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:35:13 -0800 From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> Resent-Message-ID: <"SVVba.A.X4G.IXVh2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> To: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/802 X-Loop: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: TEAM-ROOTSWEB-L-request@rootsweb.com -- Your message was: (from "Carol C-H") > Brian, would it be possible for you to tell us when you had > volunteers for a project that would be possible to offer *if* the > money were available, and then let us approach the lists for > funding to provide the server for that specific project? That > would probably bring in a greater response, and would, of course, > be in addition to our "normal" encouragement of membership - ------------------ Sure, I can always tell you at least one, two, or three of the next projects that we have volunteers waiting to handle. Here are the current top-of-the-stack projects: ### First, Karen and Tim and the listowners are ready and waiting for upgrades to the "lists2" mailing list server and a new "lists3" server that we can tune especially to handle the very large lists. The effect of upgrading "lists2" and adding "lists3" is that we can continue adding lists while keeping our average delivery time down in the few-seconds range. ### Second, Randy, Dale, the USGenWeb Archives/Census projects, and the listowners could use a second search engine server because the current server is out of disk space (and can't be upgraded) and is out of CPU capacity (and can't be upgraded), too. Adding a second search engine server would allow the USGenWeb and mailing list archives to keep growing, and should make searches significantly faster. ### Everyone would enjoy faster lists and faster Web pages if we had more bandwidth. We can add bandwidth with a single telephone call, but we incur significant new costs when we make that call. ### If we had the money, in pretty much short order we'd field the new listservers, we'd field the new search engine server, and we'd dial up our bandwidth. As it is, we'll do those things as revenue allows. Then we'll go on to the next projects. BTW, this list sort of shows what frustrates me the most. The next three projects are mainly upgrades of existing facilities. We're only just keeping up. I *really* wish the next three projects read something like: o Have Georges contact Belgium's government and see if they have anything like America's Social Security Death Index that we could buy and bring online. o Buy the full set of Washington state land records (they happen to be available) and bring them online. o Buy an autopositioning microfilm scanner and start bringing several county/years of census pages online every day. But to move from barely keeping up to really developing new resources, we need to move our membership rate from 2-6% of our users up closer to 30-50%. Cheers, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com --------------D6DBC7F7DE45F4150236CA26--