Cocoaheads Ireland and Northern Ireland

Where will we get $200

Guys,

Ning is shutting off their free service. We're going to need the $200/year package, as the cheapo package is limited to 150 users.

I know we could get a few dollars off every member but its going to take a lot of hassle to do that.

I know there may be alternatives, and we could do this. Anyone know of the best alternative?

Also...I wonder if there's a benefactor who could help with the $200..

Cheers,

Dermot.

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Permalink Reply by Alexey Rashevskiy on May 4, 2010 at 5:26pm

I can set up wordpress and all necessary plugins on my hosting but I'll need domain name.
Don't think than Ning is good option. After this case (collecting users and after that asking for payment) there is no trust to the company. They can say 500$ or 1000$ next year. Or 10$ per user. IMHO will be better to leave them.

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Permalink Reply by Finbarr Brady on May 5, 2010 at 1:50pm

Seems to be a few here:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/ning-alternatives-guide-to-the-best-s...

BuddyPress looks like it could be good. I also have some hosting accounts we could use for this. Again, we would need to buy a domain but that would be cheap enough. (x-cake.com domain is $10 per year from godaddy.com)

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Permalink Reply by Richard Kelly on May 6, 2010 at 10:47am

Maybe we can discuss some options at the next meeting. I agree that $200 is not that big a deal. I also see Alexey's point that this leads to yearly escalation of fees. There are other options available rather than us resorting to bake sales and donations. Although those might be good ideas, the surplus could go to schedule some dev events.