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The devil is in the detail. Which plugins and, critically, which themes
will you make available, and will they look nice. Scientists (well,
people in general) often underestimate the hassle of looking after a
website, so will tend to go for their own server solution, if it doesn't
do what they want.
Basically, you have to show that they are enough better than
wordpress.com to be worth bothering with for those who don't host their
own. And close enough for those who do or would host their own to be
easier.
Phil
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Will do. Interested to see. Hope tone of my voice wasn't too terse. ;-)
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> On Feb 9, 8:32 pm, Kaveh Bazargan <kaveh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hard to comment with nothing to see.
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>> On 9 February 2012 14:46, Nick Ryall <nick.ry...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Dear all,
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>> > My name is Nick Ryall and I'm currently working on developing a fully
>> > hosted WordPress solution for scientists and academics. The product
>> > will work in the same way as WordPress.com but with a focus on
>> > providing plugins, themes and tools to benefit academic and scientific
>> > authoring.
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>> > I am interested to hear your thoughts on the usefulness of such a
>> > platform and would love to begin active dialogue with this group with
>> > the hope of creating the best solution available.
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>> > The site itself will be hosted on the unique domainhttp://world.edu
>> > with each individual site made available on a chosen sub-domain e.g.
>> > 'http://yourname.world.edu'.
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>> > Apart from this, I am also an experienced WordPress developer and will
>> > be happy to help out with any questions or plugin requests/help you
>> > may have.
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>> > Thanks,
>> > Nick
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>> Kaveh Bazarganwww.river-valley.com|www.river-valley.tv|www.bazargan.org
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I'd add that rather than developing there is a huge value in validation of third party themes and plugins that are relevant and play well together. With the growth of various things out there providing a service that really guarantees that plugins will place nicely with kblog or Anotum and that the referencing systems are compatible would be really valuable. There is some value in developing new but the real value from my perspective is providing a package that will "just work" for people.
Cheers
Cameron
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