[HCoop-Discuss] The future of HCoop

[Adam Chlipala]

Franklin Gordon Bynum wrote:
> This group is something really special to me, and I know it is to many of you.  It's not just a host, it's a community.  I added a domain for my new law practice and Davor sent along a congratulatory note when he added it.  Justin Leitgeb, someone I never met, went from a name on the listserv to a face on the train to a friend down the block after he moved to Brooklyn.
>
> This isn't about cheap hosting.  It's about opting-out of the ad-saturated, overpriced, over-hyped, for-profit corporate hosting game.  (And for that matter, the high-end, overpriced, for-profit hosting game.)  

Heartily agreed. I hope we can get the actual cooperative element going 
to an extent large enough that you and I would want to move our online 
presences back to HCoop.

> To that end, I will take it upon myself to straighten out our treasurer situation
>   

I think everything is working fine now on that front. I'm quite willing 
to stay in that role for another year, if needed, if it's clear that 
progress is being made towards a set-up where the work of running HCoop 
is genuinely being split among more than two people. (Or maybe one 
person who is paid enough to not mind putting in lots of time, as later 
posts in this thread suggest.) Handling the money situation is mostly 
rote tasks; it's human management and sysadmin tasks that are the real 
hot potato.