BRace said:The class should take the money they save on printing and postage and spend it on a website that people want to go to and use.
Crooked Beat said:Have you considered Joomla (http://www.joomla.org/) as a CMS to allow a few people to help out with the site?
gouvernail said:when Laser.org becomes available again I hope we plan to keep nalaser.org as an automatic redirect.
Further.
We could have sailing.biz and laser.biz as neither is being used. My two cents? it is worth the price to grab both
and for those looking for regattas?? regatta.org is available
If web presence is our goal. Is this important? I dunno..Just asking.
Crooked Beat said:I think Mambo is very quickly becoming a distant 2nd to Joomla in the CMS war. After the split between the two camps (Mambo and Joomla), most have migrated to Joomla. My 2 cents.
Old Geezer said:I notice that the "Ads by Google" space on the left of the page on the ICLA-NA website is currently carrying an ad for Intensity Sails.
Are we OK with using the official class website to promote the sales of illegal sails?
After reading these posts I went and took a look at the site and I did manage to find a rationale for joining the class at: http://www.nalaser.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=230&Itemid=149 But this is under "Home Questions? Starting Out Why should I join the Laser Class if I don't want to race? " instead of under the Membership page at http://www.nalaser.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=64 And the first point listed for Why to join the Class is "It is simply the right thing to do." I'm not sure that's the best place for this or the most compelling argument to be made (but I'm at a loss at how to do it better). It can be hard to create value in people's minds and get them to join because there is the opportunity for some people to take advantage of the benefits of the class without contributing as long as there are enough of us who are contributing to keeping the thing going. . .pez said:I joined the laser class to participate in the D18 regatta. I could see nop other motivation for doing so, and nothing on the ILCA-NA website is convincing me of any other reason.