I'm starting to put together a green paper on the long terms goals & objectives of the site and community for your consideration.

As you guys know, we've had a helluva year so far in downtime, poor access for users (and moderators) and the realisation that sadgeezer.com is rapidly turning into a 'legacy' website that is difficult to update and almost impossible to develop.

I've been conducting some research for the last few months on options for development and methods of increasing the number of members and contributions from the sci fi community. SadCAST is one of these and a move to a new server with new software is another.

I'm still reading up on these, but my conclusions are almost ready to publish. I'm conscious that I haven't included you very much in my deliberations - frankly, this has been because you have all had real life stuff to do like, have babies, move house, get your PhD etc. but I'm keen to let you all have an opportunity to comment and even change the conclusions.

To this end, I'll be emailing you all with the green paper in the next few days and we will have a week to deliberate. This document will be pretty high level (and short) and your comments will be taken into consideration for the publication of a white paper in June. The white paper will elaborate on the strategy for the site and (if you express and interest) your involvement in it.

The green paper will be sent to you in 26th May 2006.
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