Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Vern....I LOVE the layout of the DTXpressions
forum....REAL TIME would be nice too.  What ever this
group decides as a whole I am for.
Thanks for offering your talents to us...perhaps we
should run a poll?
Jade
--- Vernon Graner <vern@...> wrote:
> hmmm weird to come into the forum and find my name
> in/on a bunch of
> posts... :D Anyway...
> 
> I do still offer to host the site, the forum and/or
> whatever the group
> wants to use. I have a phorum up already here:
> 
> http://www.dtxpressions.com/messages.htm
> 
> And I can customize it anyway the group wants. In
> fact the Drum Center
> forum (mentioned as a good example of a forum
> earlier) seems to also be
> running PHPBB so our site could look very simular.
> 
> Don't like the way it looks? Thats ok, casue PHPBB
> is "themeable" (like
> WINAMP Skins) so we can use any of a bunch of very
> snazy looking themes
> to make it look unique. Look here for details:
> 
> http://www.phpthemes.com
> 
> or this site that lets you preview the templates in
> real time:
> 
> http://www.phpbbhacks.com/templatesdemo/
> 
> Also, try this link to see another PHPBB site I host
> for players of the
> MMPG Asherons Call:
> 
> http://www.holtsouth.com/phpbb2/
> 
> I would be happy to delegate the operation of the
> site to active members
> or do it myself if the group doesn't have time. I
> have a desk jop
> (netowkr support engineer) that allows me to work
> with the site a bit
> each day if I need to. :)
> 
> As for the message board I'm using (PHPBB), though I
> think it's pretty
> neat, thats not set in stone either. We could go to
> a WIKI format (see
> another group I host at http://www.robotgroup.net to
> see if you like the
> WIKI format better).I can pretty much run whatever
> forum you like as long
> as it runs under LINUX. :)
> 
> For file uploads, I could make it possible for some
> of our members to
> place files, but this is a bit tricky since the
> placing of the files to a
> server is a security risk in most cases, so I'd have
> to see what options
> we would have. I could set aside a limited amount of
> space and
> 
> Personally I would greatly prefer to have the group
> run through the
> dtxpressions.com since I think it makes us look more
> professional and we
> are not subject to Yahoo's rules and limits and we'd
> be much easier to
> find! :)
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Vern
> 
> -- 
> Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE     | "If the network is
> down, then you're
> Senior Systems Engineer     | obviously incompetent
> so why are we
> Texas Information Services  | paying you? Of course,
> if the network
> vern@... www.txis.com  | is up, then we
> obviously don't need
> Cell 507-7851 Desk 328-8947 | you, so why are we
> paying you?" VLG
> 
> underneathheaven said:
> > Maybe Vern could just host a file holding site?? 
> This way we could
> > keep the site where it is but continue to add
> optional photos and
> > songs to an alternative site.  I think the more
> important files
> > should stay here, such as manuals and people to
> contact and such.
> > We could keep a text file named the web address to
> verns place in
> > the files section so people would immediatly see
> where to go for
> > more files.  Or maybe in big bold letters we could
> place it on the
> > front page introducing the group...I don't know,
> help!
> >
> > -UN.H
> >
> >
> > --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus"
> > <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> >> UHH reported a while ago that he couldn't add a
> file because we'd
> >> almost reached our limit. I've tried to contact
> Chris Thackston,
> > who
> >> founded this group, and Rolf Baehr, who must have
> become the
> >> moderator through Chris, to deal with the
> situation, but both of
> >> their given addresses came up empty. They do not
> appear to be
> >> involved anymore. Yahoo tells me that its privacy
> policy prevents
> > it
> >> from appointing a new moderator with the power to
> manage the
> > files.
> >> Our options are (1) to ask individuals to delete
> their own files
> >> after a certain period of time, (2) to set up
> another site
> > somewhere
> >> to add more files as necessary, (3) to have
> someone start a new
> >> group altogether, with new moderators, on Yahoo
> or elsewhere.
> >>
> >> Vern Graner offered to host the group outside
> Yahoo some time ago.
> > A
> >> few of us exchanged views about it; a search of
> the archives
> >> under "Yahoo" will probably locate the thread.
> There are pros and
> >> cons; how strong they are should be a matter of
> consensus, or at
> >> least as democratic as possible. To his
> everlasting credit, Vern
> > is
> >> already hosting the DTXpressions site formerly
> handled by Giles
> >> Hearn. We could certainly keep going as currently
> constituted on
> >> Yahoo; the only drawback is that files will
> accumulate unless we
> >> periodically delete our own and recommend that
> others do so as
> > well
> >> to make more room. Thoughts?
> >
> >
> >
> > Community email addresses:
> >   Post message: DTXpress@onelist.com
> >   Subscribe:    DTXpress-subscribe@onelist.com
> >   Unsubscribe:  DTXpress-unsubscribe@onelist.com
> >   List owner:   DTXpress-owner@onelist.com
> >
> > Shortcut URL to this page:
> >   http://www.onelist.com/community/DTXpress
> >
> > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
http://search.yahoo.com