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Absentinsomniac Wrote:So, what should the URL be? Edfreedom.org or something?

Sounds like a good idea. Can I be in on this too?

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Yep, pretty much anyone can be as long as they want to help build this organization up and help change the schooling system for the better...

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EFO
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K then, sounds good, now what? A website I guess, right?

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Updated OP Wrote:I removed the poll. The Education Freedom Organization, or EFO, by popular vote, is now the official name of this organization. So instead of calling it "The organization" we can call it EFO now. Fucking finally.

Now, onto our next order of business. What should we call the website? Preliminary ideas that were suggested were edfreedom.org EFO.org* and EFO.com*

EFO.org and EFO.com are both already taken, so we can't use those.

Now, get your asses in here and help decide on the name of the website. We need to get this fucking thing moving. I would run EFO my damn self, but that's impossible. I don't have the resources, time, resolve, or patience to spend my life on this, so you fuckers better start helping or it's going to die, and we won't get anything done. Step the fuck up.

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I vote for edfreedom.org

I can help with site related stuffs.

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Sounds good to me, all opposed?

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BAMP

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Blobthe15 Wrote:BAMP

Are you opposed, or are you just bumping? Bump. Bamp. Bumping. BUMPED

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nobody opposes

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DO IT FAGGOT

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Again, I agree with you. School does teach you things. And once again, you are missing the point entirely. It's not that I disagree with school's mission or the things it teaches. What I object to is that the students are deprived of any choice in the matter. As benign as the intentions may be, any system that forces people into an environment where they have no say in their lives is a situation ripe for abuse of power.

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Alright, Edfreedom.org it is.

So, what we have to do now is design the site. All I know is that we decided on using forums to vote, and each person has to have a certain amount of posts in order to vote, that way people don't just throw off the voting by signing up multiple times.

Anyways, so trollriser, are you going to manage the site?

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Anybody have any ideas? I was thinking about using word press as a CMS or something... I dun know, though. Soulriser, you'll probably end up managing the hosting or whatever for the site, so what do you think?

Anybody else have any ideas?

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DERP BUMP DRP 'N BUMP

edfreedom.org.

Someone should buy that domain and host some shit or something *caugh soulriser caugh*.

I'm quiet sure that everyone here is motivated enough to get it going, so I doubt you'll be wasting your money's. Also, I'll donate when I can and help you earn revenue from certain sources on SS if you know what I mean.

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Absentinsomniac Wrote:Also, I'll donate when I can and help you earn revenue from certain sources on SS if you know what I mean.
Drugs? Prostitution? The Kessel Run?

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Absentinsomniac Wrote:Also, I'll donate when I can and help you earn revenue from certain sources on SS if you know what I mean.
Drugs? Prostitution? The Kessel Run?

I've done the kessel run in 11 parsecs before. And that's why I'm filthy stinking rich.

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Ah, I hadn't seen this thread in a while. I have just bought edfreedom.org... lemme know what to install on it Smile

Wordpress is nice. I totally recommend that. Not sure what to recommend for forum software. phpBB3 is a bit of a pain. myBB seems cool, though I haven't found a decent anti-spam plugin for it yet.

There's this other thing I read about that has blogs, wiki, and forums all in one, but I forget the name.

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myBB is really, really great. And there are a lot of spam plugins for it.

And I can make you a theme for it =D

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Link to decent working spam plugin plox. Biggrin

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http://community.mybb.com/thread-63764. ... light=spam
http://community.mybb.com/thread-83250. ... light=spam

Depends on what kind of stuff you want.

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SoulRiser Wrote:Ah, I hadn't seen this thread in a while. I have just bought edfreedom.org... lemme know what to install on it Smile

Wordpress is nice. I totally recommend that. Not sure what to recommend for forum software. phpBB3 is a bit of a pain. myBB seems cool, though I haven't found a decent anti-spam plugin for it yet.

There's this other thing I read about that has blogs, wiki, and forums all in one, but I forget the name.

The blogs, wiki and forums thing sounds like Joomla. I never tried it, but it's decent from what I hear. I have experience with wordpress, and I rather like it... Maybe we could use that as a CMS... All we really need out of the forums is a forum for polls (for voting) and a forum for general discussion of the organisation, like goals and what not. We could do that on SS, but it seems more official on the actual website, and on forums you can make sure people aren't voting multiple times by making it so they can't vote until they get ten posts or whatever. (Actually, I wonder if that's possible? Probably is.)

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Absentinsomniac Wrote:Joomla.

Absentinsomniac Wrote:Joomla.

Absentinsomniac Wrote:Joomla.

NO

It is THE most horrid, bloated mess of a CMS out there. Do not touch it. You will get aids.

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This looks like a great idea. We need an organization that is an actual movement, and while this site does serve a purpose, it doesn't necessarily offer the best platform, or even a dedicated platform, to have an effective movement.

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Right, so wordpress it is? I'd be willing to work on a theme...

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Yeah WordPress is good. Whoever said Joomla. FUCK NO.
edfreedom.org it is! I can donate if you guys want, but only via direct cash or BitCoin.

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I looked it up. The thing I was thinking about is TikiWiki Groupware CMS thing something or other... what an odd name.

http://info.tiki.org/Tiki+Wiki+CMS+Groupware

But yeah... can't really go wrong with Wordpress. Unless you want a wiki. In which case it starts getting annoying. Razz

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SoulRiser Wrote:I looked it up. The thing I was thinking about is TikiWiki Groupware CMS thing something or other... what an odd name.

http://info.tiki.org/Tiki+Wiki+CMS+Groupware

But yeah... can't really go wrong with Wordpress. Unless you want a wiki. In which case it starts getting annoying. Razz

Eh, I don't really think we need a wiki. SS's wiki will do just fine for that.

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Can anyone make a header image? Mine suck, and I'd prefer to NOT use the preset ones...

If you think you can make a decent header image, make one for http://www.edfreedom.org


It has to be 960 × 198 pixels

Good luck.

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