[Communications] Forum on Website

[Lorraine Kells]

This sounds exciting. Does the 14 day free require anything beyond that?
Sometimes you just get the leader but have to then take at least a few
months.

This free trial would at least give us tome to go to coordinating committee
and finance committee for approval.

Lorraine

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 10:59 AM Amy Olson <akeo at me.com> wrote:

> Hi Lorraine, JW and Julie,
>
> I did some research and found this ‘forum’ plug in for Word Press:
> https://wordpress.org/plugins/website-toolbox-forums/
>
> This plug in would require participants to register on the CCGA website to
> participate.
> It costs $15/month and would be hosted on the vendor’s server, not the
> CCGA hosting server.
>
> I feel this product could be beneficial if the goal is to create a 'CCGA
> Gardeners’ Resource Forum' and promote it beyond what Briana and Danielle
> are asking for as an extension of their workshop.
>
> It’s free for 14 days, should we test it?
>
> Does anyone know of a free alternative for setting up a forum?
> Perhaps a Google Group?
>
> Amy
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2019, at 6:08 PM, Lorraine Kells <lxkells at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I finally had a phone conversation with Briana Villarubia who with
> Danielle Russell led the workshop,* Organizing Your Garden Team- Ideas
> and Tools for Change*.  As you may recall the presenters stated they
> never got to the heart of their presentation because everyone had problems
> to discuss. The take away from the conference was that the folks in the
> workshop wanted a forum where they and other gardeners could continue
> networking and post issues and gardeners with helpful solutions could post
> their suggestions and fixes. Both Briana and Danielle have made this clear
> in recent phone calls and email. I believe we misinterpreted what was being
> sought because we had not had a detailed conversation with either of them.
> I can go over the email attachment they sent or forward it.
>
> To be clear, these gardeners at the workshop were not soliciting a
> meeting, a workshop or anyget-together with CCGA nor do they seek to be led
> by CCGA. They want to communicate with each other in discussions unbound by
> presenters.  Obviously a forum would need an administrator that sees ensure
> people post respectfully. There would be a boiler plate about blocking a
> sender from future posts. This might be one of the website editors who gets
> an alert when posts are made or someone checks on it once a week.  I don't
> really know how this gets set up but I hope we can try it out.
>
> Please feel free to communicate with Briana or Danielle if you feel this
> needs more input from them. Anyone willing to take this to our website?
>
> Lorraine
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