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Subject: ECP Forum


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Joey
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Date Posted: 17:12:20 12/15/03 Mon

I have an annoucement and a request to make, and in that order:

Due to the recent controversies regarding the Dankus Forum and the typical Ellis County politics, I - along with the support of The Ellis County Press newspaper staff - have announced the creation and a request for funding of the first-ever Ellis County web forum.

The purpose of this forum will consist of three main things:

1) General Discussion

2) Political Discussion (local, state, national)

3) News Tips

The overall goal for this ECP Forum - which I will moderate - is for citizens to gather information, post information, strategize, and basically just network with other like-minded residents, in hopes of making some sort of positive change in Ellis County.

Big task, I know, but I feel an online web forum would help people, people who are now too afraid to come out in the open with some things (hence, News Tips), people who are just bored (General Discussion), and people who are interested in the political goings-on of Ellis County (Political Discussion).

I'm looking at vBulletin for the ECP Forum license ($65-85/year), but funds are needed to have a website host the forum; those aren't very expensive to get, and neither is the Forum license, but because I'm absolutely computer/forum/program illiterate, I could drop another $135 to have vBulletin (creators of the Dankus forum) professionally install and manage it.

So total, we're looking at about $250 to get this Ellis County Press Forum up and running; if anyone knows PHP and MySQL, how to run that or whatever, we could exclude the $135 installation fee, dropping our cost to only $105.

MySQL and PHP are reportedly free programs to download (vBulletin says this), so that'd save a ton of money on having to buy software.

If anyone would like to help in the funding, creation, and implementation of this new endeavor (you'll be made a moderator if you do), please contact me at: joeydauben@hotmail.com or

Joey Dauben
The Ellis County Press
1408 Red Oak Creek Road
Ovilla, TX 75154

Office: 972-544-2369
Home: 972-617-9537

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