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This week, the SawdustZone administrators held the first annual meeting. A summary follows.
Financial Update
You may have noticed we haven't had a fund drive in a while. We are not only solvent, but have an operating buffer and a little room for some enhancements
The cost savings implemented when the server was moved in October 2012 from Windows to Linux were significant.
The current balance between membership, advertising, and affiliate revenue has put us in a position where the site is sustainable long term.
Site Traffic
Site traffic has been relatively steady with a slight increase since the upgrade in April.
The rebranded SawdustZone was submitted to search engines earlier this month following the domain change.
Tapatalk followers increased from 16 to 55 in the last four months. Coincidence or not, Tapatalk followers increased from 55 to 289 in the last 9 days since the site index was resubmitted.
Upcoming and Enhancements
Discussions were held around a number of possible enhancements. The only concrete plan at the moment is to implement an automated backup system to relieve DBHost of the manual task of site backups.
Also discussed were pros and cons of upgrading vBulletin to version 5, possible social media integration, updating some of the underlying architecture of the site.
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by twistsolThe site is now integrated with Facebook. You have the option to connect your facebook account with the SawdustZone site which allows you to share posts here with your Facebook friends. The integration is completely optional and can be turned on or off. Note that Facebook cannot post to our site, but you can share almost anything here with Facebook. To link your account to Facebook, click on the connect icon in the header and log in to your Facebook account. A popup will appear for you to log ...
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by twistsolThe Sawdust Foundation, Inc. which runs the SawdustZone website is recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service as an exempt organization under internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) and has been classified as a Public Charity under section 509(a)(2). The effective date of our exemption and classification is 2015-June-16. Unfortunately any contributions made prior to this date are not deductible. The content on the site is openly available to all whether you are a financial contributor or not and ...
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09-01-2015, 07:11 PM -
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by twistsolThis week, the SawdustZone administrators held the first annual meeting. A summary follows.
Financial Update
You may have noticed we haven't had a fund drive in a while. We are not only solvent, but have an operating buffer and a little room for some enhancements
The cost savings implemented when the server was moved in October 2012 from Windows to Linux were significant.
The current balance between membership, advertising, and affil...-
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08-21-2015, 09:49 AM -
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By visiting our site either as a guest or as a registered member you agree to abide by the rules as stated below: Avoid politics. Politics includes discussion of political figures and political parties as well as political ideals. Current events and news may be discussed as long as they are not specific as to political leaning. Avoid religion. We don't discuss the differences in religion here. We don't preach a specific religious view. We don't allow negative comments about others religion. We ...
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In the 1990's our founder, Sam Conder joined the old Ryobi tools forum. Ryobi produced a new type of tablesaw, the BT3000 (BT3K) which was designed to be a much lighter table saw where everything referenced off the front rail for alignment. It offered precision for a rather reasonable price point. It was different and attracted a cult-like following partly due to the way BT3K owners were treated on some of the popular wood working forums of the time. Most of our early members also were members of...
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