Okay. After a lot of thought, Karen and I have decided how we want to organize the management of the Phoenyx. It's mostly Karen's idea, but it helps me out a lot more than her, so I'm the one writing the announcement. We're borrowing an idea from the Open Directory project. (www.dmoz.org) It's a link database much like Yahoo!, except it's completely volunteer-supported, and each category has one or more editors that maintain the list of links for their category. This has some serious advantages over Yahoo!... individual editors that have an interest in the topics they edit make it far more likely that the listings will have useful links that are up to date. (Noting that the editor decides which links are worth putting in the list and which aren't.) We're planning to do this same thing with our games. While we don't have very many right now, part of the reason we don't have very many is that Karen and I can't manage more than about 15 games at a time. We don't have time to promote the Phoenyx and try to recruit gamemasters while maintaining the system, making improvements, etc. So we need help. While we're not quite ready to move to a fully categorized format with an editor for each category, we *are* ready to start taking in editors to help evaluate game applications, promote games, recruit GM's, and help us with the finer details of creating this editor-based system. What I'm looking for is a couple people who would qualify to edit the Fantasy/D&D and Space/Star Trek categories once we actually start to split things out. Preferably these will be long-time Phoenyx users and GM's, but I can be flexible. We're limiting each category to 15 games... when the Fantasy category gets too big, we'll split the D&D sub-category out and give it its own editor. Same with Star Trek, Vampire, etc. Our goal is to continue our same high level of quality while expanding our empir... I mean selection of games so that the Phoenyx is *the* number-one place to find great PBeM roleplaying games. Editors will be given as much freedom as we can manage to personalize their categories and create sub-communities in the Phoenyx. We'll have to maintain an overall critera for accepting games and a fairly standard look-and-feel to the entire web site, but the content of each category's main pages will be customizable. In the long run, we'll need a handful of editors... one for every major category. But for now I'm looking for a couple that can help with the current workload and start building up our selection of games while we refine our "edited category" ideas. Anyone game? -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Listowner tools are found at http://www.phoenyx.net/listowners
