Hey guys,
I'm working with our hosting service to see if they can install the latest version of SMF forum.
The forum hasn't been customized much, so that makes upgrading easier. An upgrade comes without any cusomizations.
The only customizations I think are the icons for the categories, which are easy to redo, and the chat, which is not used very much. So we will probably not install the chat with the upgrade. not at first anyways. If there's a demand, we could install it.
All this has a cost though. I just paid for hosting renewal for 2 yrs, which cost me over $200. So I'd like to ask that we have volunteers to upgrade our forum. They told me it would be probably 1 or 2 hrs of work, @ $60 per hour. I suspect that it could take twice that.
So we need committments for somewhere around $250. What we could do is get the committments, and then have the work done. Once the bill comes we can divide the actual cost among those who commit, so that nobody is paying money that won't actually be used.
So let me know. If we don't do the upgrade, then we should move to google groups.
Thanks