Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00883
To: beam beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Richard Piotter richfile@rconnect.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:11:14 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: first beam home page ideas
Umm... You realize that it's not realy going to pay to charge for stuff that is
going to be free elsewhere, like the tutbot, which I'm working on and will have
complete instructions when i'm done. All my complex projects will be free for
all to see, and If I just happen to build something, regardless of where the
info comes from, I'm posting pics on my page. Besides, I don't think the
"exclusive" page is realy very fair to the open nature of BEAM, unless it's
official with Mark Tilden. I think it's the free information that has made BEAM
so popular! You can try, but I don't know how well it'll work. Are you willing
to put a FULL effort into this, after all, you'll have paying customers. You'll
need to give them their money's worth if you try this!
My opinion, a public newsletter would be nice, but if it's exclusive, I don't
know about that.
--
Evan Dudzik wrote:
>
> okay, here are some basic ideas for the page. suggest any changes you
> like
> Background: Dark (Black?)
> Frames: None (not yet)
> Text: Yellow or white
> Setup: Main Page, with links to pages for each topic-
> Plans/Tutorials , circuits, links, ideas, etc
>
> Also, I think a lot of links should be directly in the text, so people
> don't have to keep going to the links page. we should let people
> email us tutorials in HTML to add to the tutorials part, also for
> circuits, etc
> and we should each search around through other BEAM pages and find
> info we could use, then ASK the owner if we can use it.
>
> As for the newsletter, we should have a password protected page or a
> page with NO links to it for paying (~$5 annually) customers, with
> highlights from past issues as well as some tutorials exclusively for
> paying customers, such as more advanced stuff- turbots, etc.
Richard Piotter
richfile@rconnect.com
The Richfiles Robotics & TI web page:
http://members.xoom.com/richfiles
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