Start of #AboutUsStakeholder buffer: Thu Sep 13 15:00:37 2007
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[16:31:20] <@Simonkoldyk> No sound?
[16:32:13] <Nathan> no sound apparently
[16:33:32] <Nathan> whenever ray looks at his screen next, he'll know
[16:33:40] <Nathan> i pinged him
[16:37:00] <Nathan> hmm obviously not a good choice of person to tell :p
[16:37:31] <Nathan> still can't hear a thing :(
[16:37:45] <Nathan> good.
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[16:39:33] <@Simonkoldyk> Is there a copy of the slides online?
[16:40:33] <JasonP> I don't think so
[16:41:14] <JasonP> so looks like we can get those later
[16:41:22] <@Simonkoldyk> okay
[16:44:09] * Nathan goes with explosives and blows up the train for disturbing the meeting >:)
[16:44:46] <JasonP> thanks, although the explosion might be even more distracting....
[16:45:01] <Nathan> collateral damage ;)
[16:45:15] <JasonP> simon can you op me please
[16:45:32] <JasonP> or /invite jeremiahk, whichever
[16:45:59] <Nathan> channel's not locked, he can join freely
[16:45:59] [op] * Simonkoldyk ops JasonP
[16:46:07] <Nathan> ah. webuser.
[16:46:22] <@Simonkoldyk> webuser can still join in the applet
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[16:48:28] <@JasonP> yeah, he typoed it and I was hoping to help hi
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[17:08:03] <@JasonP> welcome :)
[17:08:14] <JeremiahK> took me a minute to figure out how to get here
[17:08:19] <JeremiahK> havent used IRC before
[17:09:01] <@JasonP> yeah it's a bit tricky to get used to
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[17:24:07] <JeremiahK> what site is ray tralking about now the sounds dropped
[17:24:25] <@JasonP> Portland Tech category on aboutus
[17:24:45] <@JasonP> is the sound still on?
[17:24:50] <@JasonP> is it gone or just choppy?
[17:24:55] <JeremiahK> just choppy
[17:24:56] <Nathan> it's been choppy since it started
[17:24:56] <JeremiahK> :)
[17:25:01] <@JasonP> :/
[17:25:05] <Nathan> despite my turning off almsot everything except the browser
[17:25:40] <JeremiahK> I think my biggest question for Ray is how does AboutUs generate the large number of unique hits on
the site with no marketing
[17:26:07] <@JasonP> I think I'll take a stab at that if you don't mind
[17:26:18] <JeremiahK> no problem
[17:26:19] <JeremiahK> :)
[17:26:25] <@JasonP> the pregenerated pages for the domain pages is where we get a lot of that
[17:26:35] <@JasonP> and we have links from whois pointing to us
[17:26:47] <@JasonP> good enough?
[17:26:53] <JeremiahK> sounds good to me
[17:29:05] <@Simonkoldyk> JeremiahK, AboutUs has had some marketing.
[17:29:43] <JeremiahK> was this early on until the site started getting its own traction
[17:29:43] <@Simonkoldyk> AboutUs was a banner ad on domaintools.com
[17:29:53] <JeremiahK> very nice
[17:30:01] <@Simonkoldyk> After that we got a boost of traffic.
[17:30:09] <JeremiahK> :):)
[17:30:17] <Nathan> AboutUs is also on a lot of domain registrars' WHOIS information.
[17:30:26] <Nathan> so we get some from there too
[17:30:28] <@Simonkoldyk> Yes, but that came much later.
[17:30:32] <Nathan> indeed
[17:31:04] <Nathan> i'm waiting for tucows to add aboutus on their whois'es so mine will have a link :)
[17:31:13] <JeremiahK> now with 17 employees in India and the employees here in portland how is Aboutus able to generate
enough revenue to support the organization
[17:31:35] <Nathan> pakistan
[17:31:38] <Nathan> :)
[17:31:42] <JeremiahK> whoops sorry
[17:31:44] <Nathan> they will not like you calling it india!@
[17:31:49] <Nathan> ;)
[17:31:49] <JeremiahK> hahaah
[17:31:51] <JeremiahK> i agree
[17:31:58] <@Simonkoldyk> Arif and Asad, take him out.
[17:32:02] <JeremiahK> hahaha
[17:32:04] <Nathan> >:)
[17:32:14] <Nathan> Simon: a
[17:32:16] <Nathan> oops
[17:32:20] <Nathan> Simon: Pakistani mafia?
[17:32:23] * Nathan is innocent O:)
[17:32:31] <JeremiahK> riiiggghhhttt
[17:32:32] <Asad> :@
[17:32:47] <Asad> lol
[17:33:12] <Nathan> Asad: You may get the cement ready for the cement overshoes ;)
[17:33:37] <JeremiahK> i think i would be more afraid of the water in the Willamette thant he cement shoes
[17:33:51] <Asad> :)
[17:34:41] <@JasonP> heh
[17:37:07] <Nathan> The mafia will throw you in the lake. The Pakistani mafia will just throw you in the desert.
[17:37:36] <JeremiahK> the AboutUs mafia will throw you in to the AOL offices
[17:37:40] <Nathan> haha
[17:38:01] <Nathan> drop you into the wikipedia office with no parachute.
[17:38:05] <Nathan> oops O:)
[17:38:13] <JeremiahK> and no internet conection
[17:38:19] <Arif_Iqbal> lol
[17:42:46] <JeremiahK> with the amount of traffic Aboutus is getting it seems that even just using google adsense would
generate a nice income
[17:46:44] <@Simonkoldyk> We do.
[17:47:27] <JeremiahK> ahh interesting never noticed it before
[17:49:33] <JeremiahK> i got a question
[17:49:35] <Arif_Iqbal> we already had our questions answered in the meeting earlier :-)
[17:49:44] <JeremiahK> where do you see the site 2 years from now
[17:51:36] <JeremiahK> Awesome
[17:51:38] <JeremiahK> :)
[17:54:13] <@JasonP> did you get the question?
[17:56:05] <JeremiahK> yeah :)
[17:56:13] <@JasonP> great.
[17:59:15] <Arif_Iqbal> claps
[17:59:25] * Nathan claps
[17:59:32] <@JasonP> again, there are notes from the meeting posted here: http://aboutus.org/Agenda_for_3rd_Quarter_Stakeholde
r_Meeting
[17:59:40] <@JasonP> thanks for joining us on IRC!
[17:59:46] <JeremiahK> not ap roblem its been fun
[18:00:21] <Nathan> i'll dump this into a log and change the times around so it's pdt
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