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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Location: Earth
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Treacodactyl
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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jema
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28135
Location: escaped from Swindon
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moggins
Joined: 24 Feb 2005
Posts: 942
Location: Gloucester
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snowball
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 6240
Location: swindon
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nettie
Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk
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farmwoody
Joined: 19 Mar 2005
Posts: 98
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jema
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28135
Location: escaped from Swindon
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429
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What's amazed me is just how fluid the 'team' here has been.
I got contacted shortly after Jema started on this, by Tahir. He asked me to come and take a look, and to be honest I didn't. I was busy at the time  He then prodded me again, a couple of weeks later, and I came to see what was here.
The potential then was obvious; the model those guys had come up with was simple and effective. Members have moral ownership by making contributions, within a broad ethical outline (we're defined as a website as much by our interests as our goals, I think). It works surprisngly well.
I soon started moderating a couple of the forums (weren't a lot of people around at the time, and I think that there was a need for a forager!), which meant that I also started feeling like it's partly up to me to keep them moving, to keep some traffic in them and provide something to talk about in them So then came the first of the wild food articles, a Top Ten Wild Mushrooms for the Beginner, followed by a similar article for winter wild foods, then the monthly articles, a recipe article, and there are more to come...
By being part of a site rather than merely an outside contributor, I feel happy to share such things here. What I get in return is access who a whole load of other contributions from many other really interesting people, and I consider that an excellent swap
But I guess where that leaves me is secure in the knowledge that it isn't Jema, Tahir, or any of the others involved in the coding and programming, or Bugs who edits the articles and puts them online (which strikes me as the nastiest job!), nor is it any of the moderators or ideas people who are the strength of the site. Its the members, people like Fee and Farmwoody posting here to say thank you, who make the site what it is. It's you guys posting questions and answers in the forums, which lead directly or indirectly to informative discussions and useful articles, who keep me here being involved, who make this a worthwhile resource for everyone. That 'team' of people is constantly changing, it's a shared resource and as such as people come and go and leave their footprint, they leave a permanent record of the skills and ideas they've shared with other members.
So if anyone else is about to post a 'thank you', no, thank YOU.[/url] |
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jema
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28135
Location: escaped from Swindon
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I got contacted shortly after Jema started on this, by Tahir. He asked me to come and take a look, and to be honest I didn't. I was busy at the time He then prodded me again, a couple of weeks later, and I came to see what was here.
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I'd be curious on what other people who saw or didn't bother to look at the beginning thought?
I'll say that I had very little thought of failure, but that's me, I have plenty of ideas for products and things that have failed at the "marketing" level, but once I have an idea I tend to commit to it until it is done or dead!
I also thought with this site, even without a forum and without loads of people helping out, it would over maybe a few years slowly build into something decent. The idea of free advertising for ethical small businesses, combined with a useful resource of articles for the downsizer has to have some inherent value.
But from other peoples perspective, there are so many things flying around on the web, that I wonder what they thought of a site with about 3 articles and a bit of bluster at the start of November  |
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ButteryHOLsomeness
Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 770
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I joined not long ago also and I still cant work out who IS responsible for this fab site!
So who's the genius behind it, who do we thank? |
SNAP!
really do have to thank everyone that makes this site happen. my dh and i have been working towards these ideals for some years now, it was easier when we lived on skye because most people were doing at least some of it out of necessity if nothing else.
but for the last few years we've had very urban flats (glasgow and now edinburgh) it can be so hard to keep up the effort sometimes when it's not as easy as it once was to do a lot of it in the first place. thanks to this site i've got the kick up the backside i needed to get me back into more of the downsizer activities that i really love doing!
i think there are probably a lot of people like me that NEED a site like this to help them hold onto their dream until they can reach their goals. dh and i want an eco village in scotland someday. this isn't going to happen for years, we know that BUT we can still learn and practice in the mean time and with this kind of support available we are so much LESS likely to succumb to the wicked ways of the city
seriously though, many others need to know that not everyone is laughing at them for what they are doing... after being at downsizer for awhile they'll realise that it's US that should be laughing at THEM (not that i would but you get the point) i always tell my dh, that even though it's not why i do this in the first place, if the sh*t ever hits the fan on a global scale at least we'll be able to survive.
so many people don't know how to grow food, catch food, or even start a fire! how on earth would they survive if they didn't have petrol and computers? here we learn how to grow, catch , identify, build and create items, WOW! so, even though i've gone off on a tangent what i really mean to say is... THANK YOU! |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales
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ButteryHOLsomeness
Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 770
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farmwoody
Joined: 19 Mar 2005
Posts: 98
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jema
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28135
Location: escaped from Swindon
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