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Just a few notes about this site and its services.
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The Project
Free
Services
Contacts
Acknowledgements
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Background
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There has been
much interest in the creation and development of websites for
Meetings. My own Meeting (Milton Keynes PM) is one of many which
has made enquiries about the best way forward.
Who would design
the site? What to include? Who would be in charge of the site? How
easy would the site be to update? Who would be in charge? Who
should host it? What budget would be needed? Should a domain be registered, and if so,
what should it be? And so on.
Following a period of
consultation and reflection with many F/friends about the
possible way forward, two themes emerged. Firstly, that creating an
internet presence for a Meeting should really be simple to setup
and maintain, and as affordable as possible. Secondly,
that it would be wonderful if there was a suitable professional
service run by Friends and designed for the benefit of
Friends.
As a Quaker, with
experience of running a design and media consultancy, I was
familiar with many of the expensive (costly but professional)
corporate services on the
market. In addition, even those that were aimed at the
general public and were inexpensive, or
even free, proved deficient in terms of flexibility, control
over advertising, and quality. It was clear that there ought
to be a better alternative available for Friends' meetings
and organisations.
Given the fact
that I had access to all the appropriate resources, there seemed to be
no excuse not to offer a possible solution...
QuakerWeb
is the result, and I hope you like
what you see.
In friendship,
Ian
Noah
QuakerWeb
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The Project: A 'Friendly' ISP
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The purpose of QuakerWeb
is to help facilitate and encourage the use of the internet by
Friends, and to provide
a service that makes it as easy as possible for Quaker organisations to harness the communications potential of
the internet. As a private, non-profit project, administrative
time and resources are provided free as a donation to the
work of the Yearly Meetings. (Please see our user
policies.)
QuakerWeb strives to reflect the
Quaker spirit in terms of its simplicity, honesty, tolerance and
flexibility. It is dedicated to supporting the work of
BYM and the Religious Society of
Friends at large, by helping to promote, facilitate and expand the
community of Quaker websites
on the Internet. It seeks to
complement the many excellent sites being maintained by F/friends for the
benefit of all, and are happy to work with all F/friends.
Consequently, in addition to our webhosting
services, we also provide various links to other sites with useful services or
resources that may be of interest to Friends.
QuakerWeb
is designed solely around the needs of its users, and is offered as an
additional option available to Quaker organisations wishing to develop or maintain
an internet presence. We encourage feedback and
welcome your assistance and your opinions so that the services
provided can continually be improved to reflect and meet the requirements of Friends and
supporting organisations.
If you represent a Quaker
meeting (or business or other organisation
identified with the Religious Society of Friends), and would like to find out more,
please feel
free to contact
us or phone us on 07920 92017.
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Free Services?
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We offer free
hosting of your domain (or you can use our free sub-domain);
free space for your website, free email addresses and free
forwarding services, as well as free built-in scripts.
But what is meant
by 'free'? These
days the word 'free' seems to be used by most companies
simply to hide the word 'PAY'. For example; 'Free -
with every purchase of our product or service' or ''Free -
when you carry our advertising?'
Should you be forced to buy something just to get
something free? Should you be forced to have your 'free' web pages or emails
carry advertising you don't want, promoting products
or ideas you don't like? QuakerWeb
doesn't believe you should. 'Free' should mean free from any
costs, commercialism, propaganda, infact, free from any
catches.
So, in 'plain
speak', there are no setup charges or annual fees; no ads or
banners on your webpages; no contractual strings or catches;
no ifs and no buts. (No joke!)
Finally, it's
worth mentioning that our satisfaction in offering this service
is derived from knowing that this service is helping F/friends
seeking a suitable solution to their internet requirements.
If additional
services are requested by F/friends, then, as
long as these are not already available elsewhere, we will
endeavour to fulfill these needs. (However we would prefer to encourage other F/friends or organisations to provide such services
in order to
increase the overall variety of services available.)
Why not pass on
information about this site to a F/friend?
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Contacts
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QuakerWeb
is a personal, non-commercial and non-profit project, created by Ian Noah
for
the benefit of Quakers.
All Enquiries:-
Ian
Noah is a member of Luton &Leighton Monthly Meeting
(Milton Keynes PM). For private matters not related to
QuakerWeb, he can be reached via [email protected].
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Acknowledgements
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Many
people provided their views, comments and support in the
development of the QuakerWeb
service.
Particular thanks must go to the Communications Department of
Friends House, members of the Developing-Connections Group,
members of the Quaker-B Group, Milton Keynes PM, and others in
Luton & Leighton Monthly Meeting.
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