The Spring as a community
Topic 17 · 8 responses · archived october 2000
~terry
Thu, Aug 7, 1997 (06:37)
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Is the Spring a community? Could it become a community?
Would this involve more folks meeting each other in person?
Or could we evolve strictly as a virtual community without
ever meeting face to face?
~amy2
Thu, Aug 7, 1997 (11:36)
#1
Terry, this whole "community" debate is raging full force over on the Republic of Pemberley (Jane Austen) Board as they struggle to define themselves.
I -do- think that a cyber-community can evolve without our having to meet each other, BUT it's always a lot of fun when you meet people face-to-face. I met a lovely person from Australia & even from my own town of L.A. this way, & have never been disappointed.
Maybe we can have a get together at some point in a place that's geographically convenient for most of us. Somewhere in the U.S. would probably be best. Do we have more west coasters or east coasters here?
~EmKnightly
Sun, Aug 10, 1997 (14:40)
#2
Can't speak for everyone else, but I am an East Coaster who would love the opportunity to meet any of the folks here. I am conveniently about one hour from NYC and about 3 from Washington, DC. I would be perfectly thrilled to take a small trip to meet new friends.
Lori
~amy2
Sun, Aug 10, 1997 (19:06)
#3
Well, Lori, that puts you in the East, and me in L.A.; Terry is in Austin, TX, I think. How 'bout the rest of the posters? Maybe we could come up with a "centralized" location, like Chicago, or even Las Vegas (cause most flights there are fairly cheap). Let us know! Thanks.
~terry
Mon, Aug 11, 1997 (10:02)
#4
You're welcome to host something at the Spring's World Headquarters:
http://www.spring.com/~house
~terry
Thu, Aug 28, 1997 (07:29)
#5
The Spring will be moving to a new backbone with a faster server over the
next week. We'll try to keep any downtime to a minimum and I'll keep you
all posted on our progress. I sent in the change of isp request to the
Internic last night. Please bear with me if it takes a day or for our
new ip addresses to propagate. Even though we notify the Internic of our
new address, sometimes it takes a day or two for these addresses to
disseminate thoughout the Internet. We're not going away! We're just
moving to faster bandwidth and expanding our facilities.
~amy2
Thu, Aug 28, 1997 (11:46)
#6
That's great Terry! I already see a big performance increase from the old days. We should be smokin' with the next one!!
~donnal
Thu, Aug 28, 1997 (13:54)
#7
The increased speed will be welcomed, Terry. (And I'm glad I wasn't here in 'the old days':-). Thanks.
While I'm here, may I ask a semi-hypothetical, semi-rhetorical question. How long do you expect the Bronte conference and the Drool conference to sustain The Spring as a community? There is also a little activity in Apps, but mostly irrelevant to my systems/needs. I'm not trying to be cynical here, but I'm having trouble finding a niche here.
~terry
Thu, Aug 28, 1997 (16:49)
#8
We need to grow beyond that. I'm flying out to meet with the Durand folks in a week or two a`to
discuss community building issues. I'm working on it.