On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the master plan for the next few weeks. > > CODING PROJECTS/STATUS > http://dreamwidth.cometheapocalypse.com/notes/Dreamwidth.org:_Pre-Launch > > DOCUMENTATION > We don't currently have someone running point on things like FAQs, > etc. I know Denise had some people send emails about wanting to do > it, so let's refresh that. If you still want to take point on > documentation/FAQs, please let us know, so we can get that ball > rolling. > > The basic idea is that we need someone who is going to dive in and > take point on documentation. When we launch (to beta, whatever) we're > going to need someone in there pretty quickly setting up scaffolding > for this. There is also a lot of work to do with writing things for > various pages we will be creating, i.e., explaining invite codes, > payment system, etc. > > Big task, important task. Help us out! > > TESTING TESTING TESTING > All of the above will need heavy testing. We are going to be calling > out on the mailing list asking for people to sign up to beta and then > to get in and start poking things on the staging server. Please stay > tuned as this is going to come up pretty fast. > > ADMINISTRATION > * Denise will be opening a bank account in DW's name this week, I > believe. (Hopefully, anyway; we need it soon!) > * I have started coordinating with SliceHost who will be our beta > hosting provider, and probably early launch. > * Project coordination takes time away from coding, but that's life. :-) > > LAUNCH PLAN > We're going to beta initially, but ideally very shortly. The point of > having a beta is really just to do some QA/testing of functionality > without feeling bad if things don't quite work right. It will also > help us to keep the number of users really low (<100) so we can > iterate very quickly without causing pain for lots of people. > > But the beta will be short. A few weeks at the most, hopefully > shorter. Once we're satisfied that things are functional and that we > don't have any major bugs, we'll "launch." This does not mean you > will be able to immediately create your account! We have invite codes > for a reason. Demand is going to far outpace supply initially: Denise > and I don't have the cash (especially since Janine is now jobless) to > spend $10k+ on setting up enough servers to let *everybody* in on day > 1. > > What's going to happen is that we're going to decide on a number of > accounts we believe we can support and then give out that many codes. > Priority to users who are willing to pay, and probably everything else > is first-come-first-served (except those who are volunteering who will > of course be on the site from the beginning). The invite codes are a > method of controlling growth in a predictable manner. (Which > translates to: we need to balance people paying with buying servers. > We can't buy servers until people pay, but people can't pay until we > have room for them. Catch-22 that requires some careful balancing.) > > At the same time we need to balance so as to let enough people in > (i.e., if we don't have enough, we don't get network effect, and > hinder overall growth - possibly killing it). So we'll err on the > side of 'get lots of people, and deal with the site being a little > slow'. > > SYNOPSIS > Things are moving. Things are moving quickly. SUP has made it very > clear that they don't care about the health of the LiveJournal > community. This is our chance to do something about that. I really > hope you're with us on what promises to be an exciting ride. :) > > > -- > Mark Smith / xb95 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss >
I would be very willing to help out in beta testing when that phase of the site cones online. :) Just sort of throwing in my two cents. I've always wanted to beta test a journal site and really look forward to it.
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