Actors Biogs
Thu, 24 July 2003, 01:05 pmGreg Ross36 posts in thread
Actors Biogs
Thu, 24 July 2003, 01:05 pmIn light of boulevards of broken dreams and worthless receipts, is it feasible or warranted for this site to provide an area where actors can post a jpeg photo and a three line biog, with contact details?
Re: You get what you...
Mon, 28 July 2003, 08:28 pmI was at an IT seminar a couple of weeks back where one of the presenters kept repeating a mantra "you get what you pay for" like it was some kind of ultimate truism. Economic rationalism has a lot to answer for.
The last time I checked, I paid my parents nothing for the privilege of bringing me up. I don't pay my friends. Maybe I should be paying my enemies? If I only got what I paid for, Felix's smiles would have sent me broke months back and let's not talk about the size of the IOU for Sharon.
The best things in life used to be free and, in spite of the birth to deathbed consume-consume-consume bombardment we all receive, they still are!
I'm afraid Norma's wishlist a few posts back
http://www.theatre.asn.au/read.php?f=19&i=6112&t=6093
is just that, a wishlist. An ambit claim for costs and purchases that may well be justified, but have no relation to the continued operation or development of this site.
Informed Technology are happy to continue hosting the site gratis as a community service. The only cost to the ITA has been one $80 domain registration fee in the five years the site's been operating. If it came down to a choice between trying to charge people to use this site and forking out a few bucks a year to keep it running, I'd pay it out of my own pocket!
Dave asked:
> How much would it really be?
And that's the scary question.
If you actually had to pay parents to be parents, friends to be friends, all the millions of volunteers in Australia to volunteer, how much do you think it would cost and where would it end?
Once you start paying for things on this site, where will it end? Our hosts at Informed Technology have been very, very generous but we'd be up for at least $500 per annum if we wanted to pay. Any changes to the site would be charged at $82.50 per hour. I once estimated the development cost of the site at $30,000. With new technologies available it would probably be much cheaper to set up now. But still in the $15-20,000 range.
Rather than ambit claims for cash and goodies, let's talk seriously about what we expect to see implemented. Did I hear someone suggest we get a group of interested people together to write up a specification before we start demanding cheques and credit card numbers?
No? Oh.
Someone like to suggest a day/time?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
[%sig%]
The last time I checked, I paid my parents nothing for the privilege of bringing me up. I don't pay my friends. Maybe I should be paying my enemies? If I only got what I paid for, Felix's smiles would have sent me broke months back and let's not talk about the size of the IOU for Sharon.
The best things in life used to be free and, in spite of the birth to deathbed consume-consume-consume bombardment we all receive, they still are!
I'm afraid Norma's wishlist a few posts back
http://www.theatre.asn.au/read.php?f=19&i=6112&t=6093
is just that, a wishlist. An ambit claim for costs and purchases that may well be justified, but have no relation to the continued operation or development of this site.
Informed Technology are happy to continue hosting the site gratis as a community service. The only cost to the ITA has been one $80 domain registration fee in the five years the site's been operating. If it came down to a choice between trying to charge people to use this site and forking out a few bucks a year to keep it running, I'd pay it out of my own pocket!
Dave asked:
> How much would it really be?
And that's the scary question.
If you actually had to pay parents to be parents, friends to be friends, all the millions of volunteers in Australia to volunteer, how much do you think it would cost and where would it end?
Once you start paying for things on this site, where will it end? Our hosts at Informed Technology have been very, very generous but we'd be up for at least $500 per annum if we wanted to pay. Any changes to the site would be charged at $82.50 per hour. I once estimated the development cost of the site at $30,000. With new technologies available it would probably be much cheaper to set up now. But still in the $15-20,000 range.
Rather than ambit claims for cash and goodies, let's talk seriously about what we expect to see implemented. Did I hear someone suggest we get a group of interested people together to write up a specification before we start demanding cheques and credit card numbers?
No? Oh.
Someone like to suggest a day/time?
:-)
Cheers
Grant
[%sig%]
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