Dear Amiga community,
There are several things I would like bring to your attention:
27 November 2005
Regarding AmigaWorld.net:
AmigaWorld.net has meanwhile grown into becoming the most popular English languaged Amiga community portal! The website first broke the 1 million pageviews/month barrier in June 2004 and we ended 2004 with another record month within which we received on average 600 more unique visits a day than within our previous record month! Now we also started to advertise on the OSNews.com community portal. This is a popular website covering many alternative operating systems and before I joined the AmigaWorld.net staff I have been a vivid OSNews moderator and editor. I still regularly contribute Amiga stories and try to answer Amiga-related questions there. Now for the first 15 days of January on average we receive 1000 additional unique visits than in December!
Regarding AmigaRing:
I have extended my payment to Webring.com for top directory placements within both "Operating Systems" and "Hardware" sections and I have added new AmigaWorld.net banners for all the hubpages.Regarding the Amiga community:
We have seen a lot of progress with regard to AmigaOS4. A pre-release version together with two updates have already been made available to all AmigaOne owners. Also a new website called IntuitionBase.com has been developed to cover in depth AmigaOS4.x information for Classic Amiga systems as well as Next Generation hardware solutions. And finally the new "OS4 Depot @ AmigaWorld.net" effort already hosts hundreds of AmigaOS4 specific software projects. 21st of June 2003, Basel, Switzerland. One of many 'AmigaOS4 on Tour' events organized by Jürgen Schober. |
 9th of October 2003, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. One of many AmigaOS4 demonstrations by the Frieden brothers (core fulltime OS4 developers). |
 15th of December 2003, Bath, United Kingdom. Alan Redhouse presents the new MicroA1 motherboards and Fleecy Moss talks about the latest AmigaDE developments. |
 3rd of April 2004, Gothenburg, Sweden. Ben Hermans cuts the cake and celebrates completing the AmigaOS4 Developer Pre-release. |
 3rd of April 2004, Gothenburg, Sweden. Me demonstrating AmigaOS4 for German / Austrian television (3Sat / ZDF). |
 4th of October 2004, Ilmenau, Germany. Jens Langner demonstrating me the latest beta-version of AmigaOS4. |
AmigaRing has moved:
AmigaRing has now been moved to AmigaWorld.net's dedicated server. Please update any non-redirecting links to: http://webring.amigaworld.net.Regarding AmigaWorld.net:
I have joined the AmigaWorld staff. We are trying to enhance the communication between the Amiga Community and Amiga companies. We hope our efforts will result into AmigaWorld becoming the central Amiga community portal. This non-profit effort is entirely operated by Amiga enthusiasts for fellow Amiga enthusiasts. You would be most welcome! :-)
Regarding AmigaRing:
Most members have now successfully registered their information with the new Webring system. If you haven't done so already, then please contact me, so I can help you with adding your information correctly. Important is that you don't use a fake or incorrect email address. Your email address will stay hidden for everyone including myself, but if your email address is incorrectly registered with the Webring service, I will not be able to contact you through the internal Webring mailing system.
Also I took the time to inspect all the websites of AmigaRing members to evaluate if all member websites conform to all given criteria. Currently we have a 100% webring integrity. To ensure the highest amount of visibility of both AmigaRing itself and its members, I am paying Webring to enable us to receive the best possible search results and also allowing specific Amiga community targeted advertisement oppertunities within AmigaRing, with banners up to 728 x 90 on all Hub pages. Contact me if you are interested.
Regarding the Amiga community:
I would like to make some requests to all webmasters and members of the Amiga community. Many things have changed over the last few years and finally several Amiga community projects are coming to fruition, therefore I would like to ask you to keep your websites up to date or to delete obsolete content and add redirections to other better maintained websites. Also over the years many website locations have changed, so please update your weblinks as well. This to allow new interested individuals to find relevant and up to date information as effectively as possible.
Another important request is geared towards supporters of these rival projects. Although competition and rational and constructive criticism should in my opinion be applauded, I believe it is truly in our best interest to stay objective, non-hostile and keeping misinformation and flamewars to a minimum. Many recent Amiga shows and trade-fairs have shown that rival projects can live peacefully next to eachother, there even are many overlapping efforts between some projects and also good relationships between developers supporting different Amiga community projects. Please show some respect for eachother and don't bindly judge situations or issues, for which most people simply don't have any access to insider information or just hear one side of the story from a 3rd party.
Sincerely, Mike Bouma.