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Happy New Year to all Warmshowers members
Enviado por rfay el Mar, 2009-12-29 14:21.
Happy New Year and greeting to all Warmshowers members.
Once again, thanks to all of your for your kind generosity to touring cyclists this year. And all of us who have stayed with you thank you as well.
Just a few quick notes:
First, a word of thanks to a few of the absolutely wonderful volunteers who spent countless hours making Warmshowers.org happen this year:
- Kevin O'Leary, of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the USA, has handled the registration duties with grace and diligence. He looks at the logs of registrations every day, roots out spammers, responds to your email messages, and keeps things humming.
- Chris Russo, of Boston, Massachussetts, USA, put in most of his time in one intense effort. He spent countless hours of his valuable expertise upgrading the website to the latest version of the software it runs on, Drupal. A tip of the hat to both of you, and a free night's stay with a Warmshowers host anywhere in the world.
- David Garcia, of Granada, Spain, led the Spanish translation team, so Warmshowers.org is now in Spanish! Thanks to David and the whole team.
- Nicolas Caron, of Nice, France, led the French translation team to make the site available to the world's French speakers. Thanks to Nicolas and all of you who contributed.
- And to all of you who so generously hosted members, THANK YOU.
Second, it's time to remind you to please log in and check your registration information. I know that you know it's already right. I'm just asking you to do it anyway. We pride ourselves in keeping the site up-to-date so that travelers don't have the frustration of trying to contact hosts that aren't there any more. Just go to http://warmshowers.org/user and log in. You can use your email address if you don't know your username. You can request a one-time login link at http://warmshowers.org/user/password if you don't remember your password.
In a short time I'll begin the annual task of deleting the accounts of people who haven't logged in for a year, so please log in soon. We grew from about 7000 to about 11,000 members this year, but every year I delete 1000 or so who haven't logged in lately.
Third, are you interested in getting Warmshowers.org translated into your own language? If you're willing to invest a substantial amount of time, have great English skills, can continue maintaining the site in your language, and are not scared by web technologies, we'll help you to get started and make the site available to people from your country. Portuguese has been mentioned as the next appropriate language.
If you're interested in improving Warmshowers.org in other ways, there's always room for your attention. Do you have something that annoys you? Do you want to improve the content on the site? Are you a web designer who could do a new design for us?
If you're interested in improving Warmshowers.org in other ways, there's always room for your attention. Do you have something that annoys you? Do you want to improve the content on the site? Are you a web designer who could do a new design for us?
Fourth, your financial support is always welcome. All of the registration and technical work and the work of keeping the site going is done by volunteers. We've recently cut our hosting fees down to about $50/month, but that means we're spending about $600/year for hosting. We received US$464 in donations this year. THANK YOU! If you would care to donate, please just click the "Donate" button on the front page of the Warmshowers.org site.
Finally, did you see the cool pictures posted by members in the Warmshowers Photo Contest? There are some very inspiring photos there. I think we're all winners getting to share in travel like that.
Again, thanks to all of you for your generosity to touring cyclists. If you have any questions at all, just reply to this email and we'll try to resolve them.
Thanks,
-Randy and Kevin
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