Macmusic, The End Of The Adventure Options

[Francois Déchery]

We may be spoiling your day with the news that has been spoiling ours for quite some time : MacMusic will most probably not be able to continue anymore. Attempts to finance it through advertisements have failed and plans are to close the site in February.

MacMusic in the past...
MacMusic has been thriving for five years thanks to the ongoing dedication of Soif, its founder who was gradually joined by a group of enthusiastic volunteers, known as "the Team".
MacMusic's success -10,000 visits per day - may be forcing the site to close down. The technical and practical means necessary to have a continually accessible and updated tool represent an investment that can no longer be supported, particularly financially speaking. Server, host, contents management, etc. all involve ever growing expenditures of money and time, that are no longer within the team's realm of possibility.

Hopes for the future...
Over the past few weeks, the team has been working on finding a solution that corresponds to the spirit of community underpinning YOUR site. We hope to work out within the next 10 days a proposition that we believe will retain the attention of all those who hope that MacMusic will not just become a good memory...

In this regard we need to know: what do you think about it ?
Your feedback is needed!


The MacMusic Team

[lepetitmartien]

Thanks everyone (and the next people who will post , it's always good for all the team to know that we don't work for nothing, and for the good of each

Now I've got a few things to get straight and a few other to add:

What we want from you as feedback is more a constructive view of
"What do you want MM to do to be alive and kickin' in 2 months?"
"What solutions can be acceptable for you? Or NOT acceptable?"
"What do YOU want to do, pay, run, swim, whatever, so that MM stays online and continue to grow?"

(sorry, it must be a defective translation that made the last sentences of the news unclear)

These are raw questions. It's to give the spirit of the kind of feedback we need, as we are having the same thread in the FR forums and we are watching and listening to these threads so they help us build a long term (viable for 2003 AND after) and a practical, workable legal solution. We interfer the least possible way in the thread to let members talk freely, and only to give needed informations only us can give when it is needed.

(I may add the legal solution is respective of the french regulations which are quite different from the anglosaxon, or even german ones to name a few, so go on, but we must on our side have this in mind)

The team is currently working on it too (on the practical side of things, we want a working trick in the next weeks), but the brainstorming of members is useful to us to give us directions.

From internal team debate (the people who are maintaining the site, animating it, searching news, making translations, cooking pies the following seemed the points that were the soul of MacMusic.

First - we are and we'll stay a .org

Second - we stand as a community service, made by and for the community.

Third - all actual MM content is (and will stay) open to all.