Re: *** Opinions on an Approach to Subscription Based Forum Model ***
Thanks for offering solutions, Adam.
As you may know, the bottom of every page on the Camelot site has a donate button.
And there are elaborate plans for a great deal of added value coming in the future.
As has always been intended, the information will always remain freely available to anyone who can use it. But.....That doesn't mean it can't be repackaged for subscribed members. Those opting for the free, read only situation will certainly be able to search and scour the forum for all the links, and articles, and discussions, and opinions, and insights etc that make Avalon what it is.
But members will have the benefit of the work of the research team in as much as we are working on doing all that searching, copying, compiling, organizing, sifting, condensing, expounding, etc, and will be putting this into a database in the member forum.
Just think of the wisdom and knowledge which has been deposited here already. over 70 thousand posts. Many thousands of them with links to articles, websites, videos, blogs, etc.
But not just that. We're planning workshops on all the major areas of ground crew knowledge and skill that will be needed. And teleconferences. including potentially with whistleblowers.
We're considering making hard copies of the library available at a nominal cost.
Avalon is a fantastic opportunity for us to make a difference in this world and in our own lives.
But the size of the task is daunting, and time is not on our side. We need lots of help. How would the idea that coming on board to help out with the research project would mean waiving of the subscription cost fly? It's been discussed, and last I heard, the idea had support.
If someone has no money, or just can't subscribe on some principle or another, what about helping with the library project the researchers are working on? Would that be a fair deal? It's a big job, but it's rewarding, as you get to really burrow in and have a look at what's there, and in what condition of usability.
It's time for the ground crew to mobilize and pull off a miracle on our lovely little planet.
It's solution time.
Bill and Kerry have little real choice in this funding issue anymore. They've both used up their personal funds, which have financed their work up until now, with some much appreciated donations too, and if they are to continue their valuable work, they will need for funding to be provided for.
Do we want them to be able to continue what they do? Compare what you know right now, with what you'd know if they'd never bothered spending their time and money making project Camelot happen, and searching out all those people with knowledge to share, and capturing it for all to study.
I for one would be poor indeed, in knowledge, because each interview on Camelot opened a whole new universe to explore and learn about.
I salute them, and continue to offer my support in any way I can, which for right now, is working behind the scenes with a few other dedicated individuals to gather a package the knowledge we have accumulated thus far.
Lots more help is needed.
This may kill two birds with one stone.
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