Michel1020 wrote:From a private message by rdearman I understand we need the new domain name because of potential issue with trademark violations.
Meaning it would be illegal to do something with the words how to learn any language ? If such basic sentences are illegal to use - we soon will have no more freedom to say, to write or to use any words.
Trademarks are actually a civil problem, not a criminal problem. Although we don't anticpate any serious legal problems with the use of the "how to learn any language" phrase, we've been told that it is better to just avoid the problem completely by getting a new name. In addition it is a curtosy to the owner of the old domain. So really it is more about politeness and respect.
Michel1020 wrote:Do I understand well that if the new name is wrong for some one we will buy a third one ? Is it not more logical to agree on a name first before buying it ?
The problem with trying to agree a name on an internet forum, is that there are people who would purchase the domains your talking about, just to charge you money when you've finally agreed on one. They are known as "squatters". So we have had to just buy one and hope for the best.
Michel1020 wrote:I want to apologize to people I targeted in my previous post.
My words went too far - very sorry.
Please remember I am not a native english speaker - maybe my words were not correctly put to mean what was in my mind.
I didn't want to accuse anyone - by the way for sure not a personal attack I don't even remember the name of the so called targeted person if I don't read this thread again.
We understand. I think we all know how difficult it can be to express yourself the way you'd like to in a second language.
Michel1020 wrote:My point was to urge people to ask questions in this particular case about why to use a paying service to raise money when we have an audience here and could do it for free with no third party.
Obviously in most case in our lives we don't always use the best path - in this case the free one - not only because it is free but also because the other paths would mean a third party between our site and the payers - more parties more risks. You are free to think and write that I am wrong and the free one is not the best path - I will probably agree with some of your ideas on that.
Anyway not taking the best path don't mean a dishonnest purpose - how ridiculous from me to think so in the first place - more so when we think about how little money is involved here (unless of course we need to buy 2000 domain names). I don't believe we need our own server. Own server are for sites that use a lot of cpu or host a lot of data like video or that need to be more securized like gambling, banking or this kind of thing.
As far as I understand you want to create an organisation to avoid the risk of one person leadership for the site but a small organisation will be lead by one person too. Could we not do it with no organisation ? If not we should have had the organisation ready before the site is online.
We've a couple of issues which we've learned over time. When the adminstration of the site is down to one person, it is difficult if not impossible for others to help out. So in this case I've given emk full admin rights, but even then there are things which only I can do as the site administrator, just because all the paperwork and payment is in my name. An organisation wouldn't have that problem, because the paperwork and payment is down to the organisation and not a single person. The organisation then dictates who can or cannot speak on its behalf.
The other problem we are trying to overcome is we don't just want to replicate the old system, but to improve it. Ideally we'd like to be able to make enormous advances in the availablilty of the system, the amount of tools we can provide to language learners, etc. And we would like to do that while still allowing people to drop in and out of the system as their lives and their priorites dictate. We don't want to "burn out" people, and a charity is a good way for people to help without having to dedicate their life to it.
We may or may not need a dedicated server as you so rightly point out, but at the moment we just want to make sure that any decision we do make doesn't restrict the community in the future from expanding as required.