[Coco] Nick's Survey results

[Roger Taylor]

At 06:56 AM 11/27/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>I have a few questions to ask.

>2) It seems to me that what the CoCo needs a central website that all CoCo
>users can look at to keep up with what's going on in the CoCo world. Back in
>the "good-old-days" we had the CoCo magazines as a way of keeping up to
>date. Later, there was ???? (forgot his name) website that was kept
>up-to-date with CoCo developments. Now it seems all that is lost. Apart from
>this CoCoList (thanks Dennis!) We need a site were we can look and see what
>products are in development by others, read up on the latest CoCo news and
>going on's (Fests etc).


Dear Nick,

We really don't need a central place.  We need more places and activity, 
showing that all of us are still CoCoNuts, NOT just one person.
Correct me if I'm wrong.  :)

Because the data contribution towards a central website is low, it is quite 
hard to maintain such a website.  And because other large web sites have 
vanished, doesn't mean we have given up, or that there is nowhere else to 
go for fresh links or product information.  Things change.  Looks 
change.  Ideas change.  Life changes.

A single person can research and work his ass off for over 3 years 
gathering up everything he can that is "up-to-date" while CoCo users are 
falling out like flies and selling off their entire systems, etc., and what 
you get is something to the scale of CoCo3.com, which isn't much, but my 
efforts put into the site have been tremendous for one person who has 
BEGGED others to supply current links, e-mail addresses, product info, and 
banners.  And my experience has shown that CoCo users will help in any way 
they can if you bug'em a few times.  :)

I have also received many recent e-mails through the site from *lost* CoCo 
users who we took for granted did not exist.  So, no... not all dead CoCos 
are up in Grandma's attic.  That's a result I didn't need a survey to 
figure out.

I also feel that with over 1,500 hits a month, the site deserves to contain 
what you feel like a CoCo site needs to have, based on your results.

Any suggestions?  I'm a hard worker, you know.  Ofcourse, looking at 
Portal-9, we would have never guessed that.  :)

sincerely,
hope your survey gathered some useful stats,

Happy Holidays,

Roger Taylor