Published: Feb. 24, 2024
Dear Friends,
Pullman-Moscow Meeting [on the border of Washington and Idaho] is a small meeting with simple needs for our website. When I learned that the “Quaker Meetings Network,” based in England, was making a special offer to meetings in the U.S. – in response to the demise of Quaker Cloud – I signed up for their free trial.
Using their website editor, I was able to put together a basic website for our meeting in just a couple hours. (http://pmmmfriends.org/) We are using only part of the offered capabilities. My primary motivation for encouraging our meeting to take advantage of this offering was that, since the demise of hosting at xxx.quaker.org, I have been hosting our meeting website in a personal account, but I believe it should be hosted in an account under Meeting control.
I have corresponded with the owners of Quaker Meeting Network (QMN), and they have confirmed that, as long as a meeting registers before April 1, 2024, it can subscribe for a two-month free trial. When that free trial ends, the meeting must make a decision about whether to purchase a basic annual plan ($150/year), which would start immediately when the free trial period ends. This basic plan is sufficient for the needs of Pullman-Moscow Meeting. The cost increases if a meeting needs to purchase more storage, or email accounts, or asks QMN to handle the meeting’s existing domain name. For comparison, the cheapest WIX plan is $16/month ($192/year).
Hopefully, we will also benefit from “connection” and “visibility” advantages by being part of this Quaker website network.
Click here visit Quaker Meeting Network, U.S.
from John Gotts, Pullman-Moscow Friends Meeting (2/13/2024)