Ducati Monster Forum

Hi All,

In recent times, there's been a few of the Syd regulars throwing some ideas around when talking about our little community here on the DMF. It's a really good thing to be a part of the best Ducati Monster community in the world, and as we all have no doubt experienced, there is so much to get out of being a member here, whether it be the friendships formed, the tech problems solved, the inspiration to modify or many many more.

What's hard about the DMF for Aussies is trying to find our local community, and being enthusiastic about our community we wanted to share with every monster we see on the road. So we had the thought to get some cards made up, just like the old days on the DML, to leave on people's bikes and to hand out. But telling people to go to http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?board=52.0 or just sending them to the home page to navigate through was not going to be effective.

So a while ago, we purchased some domain names, and about 2 weeks ago, we started on making a "launch page" for Oz Monster resources - the forum (of course), our photo gallery, and the like...
Our launch date of the site is to coincide with the world record attempt tomorrow in Sydney (the beach party) which is a good vehicle to tell people about our community.
Well it kinda snowballed from a simple launch page, and today I'd like to share what we've been working on...

www.ozmonster.org (http://www.ozmonster.org)

So, its design as a community resource driven by the community. The intention is to provide a portal that provides a one stop  information for aussie ducatisti. We're cautious to use the word "club" but decided to none the less as it's what most people will relate to. We fully intend to keep it as a community resource in the same spirit that the DMF was formed, and it's meant to compliment our DMF home, not compete with it, hence there is no forum, shoutbox, IM or PM system - just simply information collected in one spot.

No single person owns it, there's not going to be a club house (other than the forum), committee meetings, or a charter, and it's not for profit. Yes, it's taken a small amount of money to start up - three of us have made donations to pay for the domain registrations, the site hosting and some start up cards for the beach party. We have no elected positions, but out of neccessitiy we do have a "domain keeper" and a "site keeper"  - Dock is the domain registrant, I sorted out the hosting the site, and am the web admin, and Matty has helped with the initial batch of cards.

We're going to be completely transparent on the operating costs. I've got some new ideas coming for an updated logo whcih I'll present to the community as soon as I have them.
We're getting some swag made, which will include a small donation to aid the running costs of the site, which again, we will disclose fully. If we need more money that what we can get out of selling the swag, we'll ask for donations, just like the DMF.

Anyway, I'll encourage you all to have a poke around and see what you think. It's in its infancy at the moment - whether it will be a good resource or not only time will tell.
Of course, it will only be what we make of it, so I would encourage anyone with ideas or things to contribute to put them forward here. I'll apologise right now for the large about of sydney centric stuff on the site presently. Hopefully this will be balanced out after this announcement!

Cheers people.

goldFiSh  [moto]

PS. Oh, and whilst we've tried to sort out the teething issues, I'm sure there's still a few around. If you find any, drop me a PM and I'll try to get it sorted.

Well done those involved.   [thumbsup] [wine] [clap] [bow_down]

That's going to be much easier to pass on to other monster riders.  Will the cards be available to download and print out for the rest of us to hand out?

Jukie, can you find a gold star smiley please.  You are much better at that than I am. Ta.

HP

As mentioned I have been involved in the discussions and very short birthing period of the portal.
It has been thrown together really quickly after talking about it for a while.
So as Nick said there may well be a few issues with how it may run and display on various browsers.

Basically all I'm saying is just as Nick has said, please poke around create a log-on and add content for all areas to
bring it more inline with the name OzMonster.

Have fun with the new toy.

Matty...  :D :D

Wow, well done [thumbsup]

All I can add, is its all about you and being a part of a community with the same pasion.enjoy and contribute that's  all we ask  [thumbsup]

Thing seems to be make the beast with two backsed...

Have registered at the portal thingy but have no access unless I go back through the old site...

Probably just teething issues...

Will check back later...

Ita

Hi Ita.

Let me know how you go.
The portal thingy is just a wrapper around the DMF site - they are not linked, that is, you need to login on the DMF as well..

Yup...

Normally I never need to log in because I stay logged in...   At the moment if I log into the portal thing them click forum, it askes me to log in then rejects me saying my password is incorrect...  If I go via the old site I'm straight in...  Go figure!!

I'll shut down, restart and try again..


Ita

hmmm

Dock was having some weirdness as well, but different to that what you've described.

I too always stay logged into the DMF and have not had any issues (and I've tried it with 4 computers and three differing ISPs)

Let me know how you go, you might need to clear  your cookies and cache from your browser..

Silly question but have you created a new account for ozmonster.org
It's not connected to the DMF even though there is the forum on a link inside.

Nope cannot access the forum via the portal...   It hates me... :-\ :'(

My drunkeness may be an issue, so don't panic yet....

Ita

Ita
I'm having the same problem and I'm not nearly as drunk as you.  [drink]  [laugh]

Heather

 ??? ??? ??? ??? ???  WHAT you talking about Willis!!!

Ita

Yes silly yes

Ita

 [drink] [wine] Try harder :-* :-*

Ita

Bizzare....

I never had to have to log into this site...   Now I have to log in every time I open it...

If I go via the portal it rejects me password!!!

make the beast with two backs make the beast with two backs make the beast with two backs make the beast with two backsity make the beast with two backs...

Must be Spiders fault...

Ban Spider Ban Spider Ban Spider Oi Oi Oi.......... [evil]

Ita

Holy Crap.....
That's so cool. Well Done!   [thumbsup]

Hey! I'm Ita.




BTW, you guys suck. Looks like I'm out of the loop. You blokes are as thick as thieves.


Just joking, looks the goods fella's!  [thumbsup]

Hee hee I'm Ita too.

Good job guys  [thumbsup]

Happened to me yesterday, I opened the site and I was logged on as Dockstrada!

Teething problems, guess that will happen when it gets hammered or used by more than 3 people.

Just imagine this on the back of the bike.

(http://xfc.xanga.com/123e96f538631204210763/z135737460.gif)

OK..........

Stop it...  Stop being me...  I can't dring enough for three...

But I'll try  [beer] [drink] [wine]

Ita

run amuck on ita's expense!

so what you are telling me is that the site is identifying you as ita in the right hand side?

OK looks like I need to do some more reading...

Geez, get your act together.

Chop, chop.  ;)

BTW, where is Uncle Chop.

geez, it's a tough crowd tonight!
user count makes no difference - 3 or 3,000,000

from what we saw previously, it seems to be an issue with the front page that welcomes you.
unfortunately you cannot run amuck as someone else.

matty and I were about to have _shitloads_ of fun impersonating dock!

Yeah, "Hi Ita" appeared under the login when I first registered, I logged out and back it and it is all OK.


Ita Ita he's our man......

BTW I had a password problem when going to the forum from the Portal, plus the wrapper over the DMF site is a bit annoying - the way there is  - um how do I explain in - a double scroll thing happening, plus I'm loosing view space.. I think i will be just going direct for the moment.

Don't get too frustrated with problems guys, it's Friday night, relax, I understand, I know all about teething problems, it's just that you're brave enough to let us do the testing for you ;)

geez a bloke goes roo shooting for the everning and come back to people talking about portale or port holes or something its more i gotta learn now when i got my licence there were no L plates , yay it was allways in my mind why there was no australian only web sites ,bloody well done every body im gunna join ita now and have another burban cheers  [bow_down]

yeah the double scroll is unavoidable, as is the loosing view space.

we may end up with just a simple link rather than a wrapper around the forum, or perhaps a choice of both.
going direct is a valid option of course!

re the loosing view space, cmon dude, get a higher res monitor!
and don't worry about the relaxing - after the week I've had (with my real job) this is relaxing... and I've got a beer in hand to boot!

ok to save some of the hassle that people are having, I'm going to change the forum link to simply open the forum in a new window until we get something better sorted out with the login in issues and the like...

it'll be changed over in the next 5 mins. <edit> done  [thumbsup]

My 15" lappy loves 1280 x 800, not brilliant, but better than trying to balance a 17" jobbie on my lap.

fair call!

big laptop's suck

thanks for the front page exposure.

goldy do we use our normal login detales or do we have create a new one

Awesome [evil]
Love the way how you display the events on a calender  [thumbsup]

our pleasure  [thumbsup]

I canna register....keeps spitting at me about no cookies or session expired. Reload no worky. Cookies are yum.

ahem, Mr Goldfish ! aiuto !

hi bazz, its a new login

really... what's your browser cookie setting?

I am having the same problem too :(

Tried both Safari & Firefox. Safari is set to allow for sites I navigate to & FF is fully open.

OK confirmed it here, and now looks like I've fixed it, let me know if not!

either your a bloody legend or buorbon helps but strait in easy peasy  [thumbsup]

I think I just got the same error, but I am computerilogically challenged. I'll try again, but otherwise ... bedtime.

I'm assuming you all got this error when entering your new user name on the registration page?

no went straight in  [thumbsup]

Yep. Thought I had it sorted and was about to check for a confirmation email, when the computer shit itself (blue screen of death).

Confirmation email acknowledged ... and it would seem I am logged in as Bazz

I'm Bazz! (I'm not really)

woohoo.

now my little pregnant doges.....let me tell you what I really think......

 [evil]

on a serious note:

I was Spider all afternoon....then Bazz sent me a PM, replied to Bazz, went back in....and I was Bazz.

does that help?



on a un-serious note...

Tomorrow morning I DO NOT WANT TO BE ITA. who ever logs in as Ita is going to get a killer hang over!

Yes it does - I've been researching the user thing, and I'm on the road to having it sorted.


LOL

That's easy for you to say....

Buurrrrrrrrppppppp.............

Ita

i dont know what all the fuss is about , i think way ttooooo much bourbon helps but must be a tassie thing having two haeds must help  [laugh]

now spider dont go and get in trouble with the mods  [thumbsup]

All fixed [thumbsup]

All fixed here tooooo...

I'm no longer Ita, Ducmonrob or anybody else.....  [cheeky]

I'm now officially Big T..... [thumbsup]

And bloody well done you all..........  [thumbsup]

Alrighty ... I'm in (so to speak).

I was waiting for verification, without realising I didn't need it as such ... problem is I didn't realise the necessary pop-up was being blocked.

Thank you people.

Ooooh !! 2 heads ?? Just imagine the hangover ?? X2 !  ;D  [beer]

Or maybe a hangover halved - huh huh????

no it hurts by 2 , i think i mite try the hair of the dog  [wine]

and Bazz.....you need to turn your filter in your profile to 'adult' it's current set at 'kiddies' cause it's changing my swear words around!

good to be back to Spider, well done mods and techs!

what were and when , wich profile the dmf or ozmonster its too early spider  [bang]

 [thumbsup] seems to be working fine now.  I'm logged on, I'm me and the forum link takes me straight there, logged in, as me. 

Good work. [clap]

Well I'm up and about [coffee]

This thing seems fine and dandy...  Glad I got that sorted out ;D

make the beast with two backs it's hot...  Might wander around to the bowls club and have a frosty 1 (or 10)   [beer]

Job well done GF and others [thumbsup]

Ita

tech or geek yes, mod no.

mods are for forums, and it's a credit to the DMF community when you realise that there is basically very little moderation to do.

afaik, there are a couple of mods for a few rowdy local forums, and the flounders and thats about it
on the old DML there was about 20 mods, and it was pretty much needed.

Looks awesome, nice work to all involved. It's nice to have an easy URL that I can yell at other monster thru a helmet :)

I'm up and about. Well dones guys. Seems like early adopter always have to walk through the Sh#t on these IT launches. Always best to cruze on in a day later and wonder what all of the trouble was about  ;D ;D

Great job GF, Dock and Matty

thanks for all the nice words from all..


that was the original goal!

regarding the blog feeds on the left.....how about hell for leather.....Vince likes that site too and they do a fair amount of ducati news.

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/ (http://hellforleathermagazine.com/)

Spider

good idea - moto liam was good, but he's not part of the motogp circus for 2009.
desmo blog is OK, but not much activity.

I'll add hell for leather now

Well done guys!

their comments on Grand Theft Auto 4 about the motorcycle gangs is pretty funny!

since watching the promo I've been practising my motorcycle gang clichés and Dos is going to fall off his bike (surprised by my coolness) the next time we ride!

Well you have plenty of time to practice given both your riding circumstances or are you going to use them under pedal power?   ;D

Bro, that's how we roll!

(see, I've already been practising)

Yeah, we gonna put on our leathers, throw a leg over...and pedal into the sunset!

Dos....you in????

Bro????

Hombre???

 ;D

Spider...

Speaking of peddling...  I'm looking at a Jamis Dakota Sport MB

I need two wheels...

Ita

yep, can't go wrong with Jamis...good bike.....email me with price and place of purchase and we'll chat.

you do need 2 wheels.....everyone needs to ride a pushy....it ensures that we're better car drivers (reason I got a motorcycle license in the first place was to be more aware of bikes!)....plus your buttocks will resemble 2 small cantaloupes and then your wife will be grabbing you left, right...and then centre!!!!  ;D

the site looks great!

congratulations to all those involved, you've done an excellent job!

Looks really good, guys.

There certainly isnt anything wrong with DMF, but its great to have our own place to visit.  ;D

Top job all responsible. Well done.  [thumbsup]  [beer]  [bow_down]

More content coming.

and we're looking for contributors (already got a few volunteers, but more welcome)

- ride trips and reports
- test rides / reviews
- ride techniques
- moto news

and anything else moto related, and in particular oz moto related
It's going to be presented in a blog format, so any and all welcome.

PM me if your interested.