who founded this site? (HospitalityGuide.net - Site / Forum)
posted by 'lex
, 16.09.2006, 23:45
Thanks ? for joining this page.
It was me founding the page. I would recommend you, and everybody else, to reading through the whole site and also the associated mailing list to get all the insight and history about this website, and also to get an idea about the time line and the at this time ongoing discussions and developments.
Some years back, there was only 'big' HC and CS with a couple of members. CS was the first good possibility to give people a choice, to decide where they want to go and what they want, even knowing that it isn't the best solution.
At the beginning Casey still put the finances open, as Veit never did. Casey showed more openness to cooperate with other networks, Veit never wanted. There was some more integration of the members in CS then on HC, the response and feedback was also a lot better. Out of this might come the bias favoring CS. But yes, recently, there are things developing in a way which isn't nice and in both networks is the big lack of transparency.
I favored for political reasons, to get some equilibrium of the big networks (also there wasn't much other choice). I never got deeply involved on CS or any other network. I don't like to be associated, it makes it difficult to have some critical eye on ongoing developments. I chose to try to change and influence from the outside, not from the inside.
Some people might turn it down and see it as bitching around, some private war, to aggrandize oneself or just as unproductive. I think and hope the project here, HospEx Ne>t, shows that it is more than this. The central idea of HospitalityExchange stands in the middle, everybody which thinks like that, has here on HospEx Ne>t the possibility to be productive, organize and work on this without limits.
Yes, social networks are the present and will still be it for some time.
'The ranking of the networks is based on the editorial part of Hosp.Ex Ne>t (although it isn't up to date right now anymore and needs some attention) and that is the special thing about Hosp.Ex Ne>t. On the Wiki and here on the forum are some public discussions about how we could create and use some objective measurement in the rating. Also ideas and thoughts from the Wiki (wich is open to everybody and I also tell everybody, who states fore example that here is false information on Hosp.Ex Ne>t, to edit instead to complain) can be taken over into this and we are very open to all ideas and points made. But as we had quite bad experiences with information out Wikis and given on the Networks [...], we decided for the editorial team who stands behind the given information, so everybody can judge about it themselves. We hope that we can expand this 'expertise' in the future.' (31.08.). I would also like to make more contact with the founders of the small networks, to talk about their future plans. Also the (ongoing) development of a new open source solution might become quite interesting in the future.
Every critical hand is welcome.
Alex
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