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Happy New Year Everyone: 1.12.31 rom's now available for download
- Brand New Galnet Stats Application and website: http://miuistats.galnetmiui.co.uk (Thanks to Vorbeth)
- Rebuild of Infuse Rom
- Management and Power Tweaks
- Other small tweaks
With the rapid growth of our rom over the last few months, even we have been surprised at just how popular our rom has become. We honestly never thought it would ever get to this stage!
With the increase in popularity came more downloads, obviously. This has lead to increased costs of producing the rom for free, especially since this is now spread across 5 different servers! Since the costs have been rising, we have been looking at ways to make the rom at least pay for itself. As you all know we have the groupies, which was designed initially to use donations to cover costs and also to invest in new devices. This has been quite popular, but the donations we receive from people becoming groupies hasn't been enough to even cover our costs (and we have done our level best to keep them as low as can possibly be), and as a result, we've been thinking of ways to increase the income to at least let the rom pay for itself.
Now, I know you're probably cringing at the thought of us introducing paid services, but it's not actually as bad as you think. We've done our best to make this as fair as possible for everyone!
Since this is still a draft roadmap, it is subject to change at any time.
Cloud Based Storage
This will be a feature that will be a paid service. There will be a phone based app that will sync with the cloud server and you'll be able to store contacts, files, etc. remotely.
This will be sold on the Android Market, making it available to all Andorid users, not just GalnetMIUI users. The minimum term for this is a 12 month period, and is renewable annually.
As for groupies, those members who are currently groupies will be awarded one year of cloud storage as a thank you to them helping us keep going.
There will also be a new Groupie tier as well. The existing tier will be for those people who wish to become a groupie, but do not want cloud storage, and the new teir will include a one year cloud storage subscription by default.
All cloud stroage users will also get an @miuiscotland.co.uk email account as well!
More details on this will become available as they are finalised.
GalnetMIUI ROM Kitchen
We understand that quite a few of you like to spend time removing things that you feel bloat the roms that we produce each week, so this will be a way for you all to get the rom exactly as you want it.
A complete new set of Internet Solutions to be offered!
Since Galnet's and my skillset originates in the Internet Solutions Industry, we have decided to merge our companies and begin offering a full suite of solutions, with the merge name being GalnetMIUI.
This is an organic evolution of merging our businesses since the logo that you all have come to know is already a blend of Galnet Internet Services and Chameleon Webhosting.
The primary list of services that we intend to offer are as follows:
Hosting
- Choice of 4 datacenters from around the world (UK, US, Sweden, and Australia) - This is to allow you to locate your site as close to your target audience as possible!
- Choice of Shared, VPS (Virtual Private Server), Semi-Dedicated, and Fully Dedicated hosting platforms
- Domain Management solutions, SSL, many more other hosting related services as well!
Web Design
- We will be offering a range of web design packages, all of which will be detailed in the future as details are finalised.
Consultation
- We will be providing a service that allows people or companies who are trying to decide whether to simply redesign their site, or have a new site made up, to come to us for feedback. We will totally review the site in question and will report back on suggested changes that we feel would benefit your site and allow you to maximise its potential.
SEO services
- These days, good SEO is vital, and we're here to help. We will be aiming to provide top notch SEO services on top of everything else we provide.
More information will be added as details are finalised.
Broadband for UK Residents.
We will be offering a complete broadband package for all users who are resident in the UK. specs such as speed and cost are yet to be determined.
What does this mean for the ROM?
This is the bit I'm certain you'll all be worrying about the most, so I thought I'd explain it to put any worries/fears at rest.
How does this affect the rom: It doesn't.
Will the roms still be free?: Yes, absolutely. We have always said the final versions of the roms will be free, and we continue to stand by that.
Will there be any changes to the release schedules?: No. The weekly releases will still be released each Friday (where practicably possible), and the Stable releases will be updated when we feel that we have done enough to ensure an as close to bug free experience as possible.
Basically, this is all extra things that are being added alongside what we already do. While there was the avenue of charging per download, we felt this wasn't the best idea when looking at it from your perspective.
Conclusion
As I've said already, this is simply a draft roadmap of where we aim to go in 2012, and will be adding to this as things get finalised, and more detailed plans of each new service/feature as they are developed further. We may also add new features/services and remove others, so please don't take this as being set in stone yet. It's very early days as far as this list go.
With the increase in popularity came more downloads, obviously. This has lead to increased costs of producing the rom for free, especially since this is now spread across 5 different servers! Since the costs have been rising, we have been looking at ways to make the rom at least pay for itself. As you all know we have the groupies, which was designed initially to use donations to cover costs and also to invest in new devices. This has been quite popular, but the donations we receive from people becoming groupies hasn't been enough to even cover our costs (and we have done our level best to keep them as low as can possibly be), and as a result, we've been thinking of ways to increase the income to at least let the rom pay for itself.
Now, I know you're probably cringing at the thought of us introducing paid services, but it's not actually as bad as you think. We've done our best to make this as fair as possible for everyone!
Since this is still a draft roadmap, it is subject to change at any time.
Cloud Based Storage
This will be a feature that will be a paid service. There will be a phone based app that will sync with the cloud server and you'll be able to store contacts, files, etc. remotely.
This will be sold on the Android Market, making it available to all Andorid users, not just GalnetMIUI users. The minimum term for this is a 12 month period, and is renewable annually.
As for groupies, those members who are currently groupies will be awarded one year of cloud storage as a thank you to them helping us keep going.
There will also be a new Groupie tier as well. The existing tier will be for those people who wish to become a groupie, but do not want cloud storage, and the new teir will include a one year cloud storage subscription by default.
All cloud stroage users will also get an @miuiscotland.co.uk email account as well!
More details on this will become available as they are finalised.
GalnetMIUI ROM Kitchen
We understand that quite a few of you like to spend time removing things that you feel bloat the roms that we produce each week, so this will be a way for you all to get the rom exactly as you want it.
A complete new set of Internet Solutions to be offered!
Since Galnet's and my skillset originates in the Internet Solutions Industry, we have decided to merge our companies and begin offering a full suite of solutions, with the merge name being GalnetMIUI.
This is an organic evolution of merging our businesses since the logo that you all have come to know is already a blend of Galnet Internet Services and Chameleon Webhosting.
The primary list of services that we intend to offer are as follows:
Hosting
- Choice of 4 datacenters from around the world (UK, US, Sweden, and Australia) - This is to allow you to locate your site as close to your target audience as possible!
- Choice of Shared, VPS (Virtual Private Server), Semi-Dedicated, and Fully Dedicated hosting platforms
- Domain Management solutions, SSL, many more other hosting related services as well!
Web Design
- We will be offering a range of web design packages, all of which will be detailed in the future as details are finalised.
Consultation
- We will be providing a service that allows people or companies who are trying to decide whether to simply redesign their site, or have a new site made up, to come to us for feedback. We will totally review the site in question and will report back on suggested changes that we feel would benefit your site and allow you to maximise its potential.
SEO services
- These days, good SEO is vital, and we're here to help. We will be aiming to provide top notch SEO services on top of everything else we provide.
More information will be added as details are finalised.
Broadband for UK Residents.
We will be offering a complete broadband package for all users who are resident in the UK. specs such as speed and cost are yet to be determined.
What does this mean for the ROM?
This is the bit I'm certain you'll all be worrying about the most, so I thought I'd explain it to put any worries/fears at rest.
How does this affect the rom: It doesn't.
Will the roms still be free?: Yes, absolutely. We have always said the final versions of the roms will be free, and we continue to stand by that.
Will there be any changes to the release schedules?: No. The weekly releases will still be released each Friday (where practicably possible), and the Stable releases will be updated when we feel that we have done enough to ensure an as close to bug free experience as possible.
Basically, this is all extra things that are being added alongside what we already do. While there was the avenue of charging per download, we felt this wasn't the best idea when looking at it from your perspective.
Conclusion
As I've said already, this is simply a draft roadmap of where we aim to go in 2012, and will be adding to this as things get finalised, and more detailed plans of each new service/feature as they are developed further. We may also add new features/services and remove others, so please don't take this as being set in stone yet. It's very early days as far as this list go.
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