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11/1/2009 10:28 PM
This is the first progress report for Getting There From Here... and since the site was only brought online on three days ago, there's not much to report yet! Obviously there is still a lot of work to do, but at least we're started!
Financials
Not much to talk about here, as we were only running for the last three days of October and had very little traffic. We did have four total visitors to the site, which means there were at least a couple of people other than the site operators who visited. Traffic has crept up slowly day after day, which is a good sign, as long as it keeps up.
October Income: $0
October Expenses: $0
Total Cash On Hand: $0
What We've Done
In the first few days, we have set up the basic site structure, added The Plan, set up a blog, and put the forums in place. Not a lot of activity so far, but we have our first registered user already, so we're off on the right foot!
You should easily be able to tell by looking that we have added Google AdSense ads to the website in an attempt to establish a revenue stream to support the goals of Getting There From Here. We have other things planned in the next few months, but since this is not a full time job for any of us (yet) it may take us some time.
What's Coming Up
Obviously we still need to flesh out a lot of the site and add content in a lot of areas. If you have suggestions, post them in the forums or add them as comments on a relevant blog posting. Today we started adding "Who's Working On It" sections to the various pages to show what companies or organizations are actively working on pushing forward each section. We'll be adding a lot of those over the coming weeks, but we don't know everything, so if you know of something we've missed, post it in the forums (in the appropriate section).
We would like to make the site... prettier. We're using the basic DotNetNuke template, the "skin" that comes with it, and while it looks okay, it also looks just like the basic DotNetNuke template. We'd like something a little more "space" themed, but completely lack anything resembling design skills. If anyone out there would like to help out, we could sure use some help in that area.
We're also going to add some new potential sources of revenue in the coming weeks and months; please don't be offended, but our goal here is actually to colonize the galaxy, and that is likely to take vast economic resources. We have to start somewhere.
And that's pretty much it for the first progress report. Hopefully when we post our next report in about a month, we'll have some financial numbers to report (preferably more on the revenue side than on the expenses side).
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