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Thanks for the feedback guys and believe me, I in no way think this will be easily successful. Having been previously involved in both site and mod projects that have since weathered away to nothing, I am no stranger to the challenges of keeping a project alive and kicking. Stryke and I just discussed this last night and one of the things we are going to do to make the project unique is to break it up into two levels of community involvement. There will be a small team of very dedicated people who maintain the site and work on some small projects and then there will be the larger group of folks who can contribute without making any kind of commitment.
There will be a place for individuals/teams to request help and there will be a place for individuals to post their availability to help out in their area of expertise.
One of the larger projects, that will be open to absolutely everyone, is the first ever "open source" mod project. Everyone will be able to submit ideas and content and we will post submissions so that others can see your work. The purpose of this is to help people learn the full process of mod creation, without them having to make a huge commitment. To keep egos out, the project and all items submitted to it, will be "open source," which means that it belongs to everyone in our editing community. I'll go into more detail on this once the site is up and yes, I do understand the challenges of setting up such a project. I like the idea of it, so hell, it's worth a shot.
There's a lot of other ideas that we are currently mulling over and please don't hesitate to make further suggestions or offers of help. It's pretty fun right now, as the five or so guys working on the site all live at oposite ends of the globe, which I think is very cool. I've received some great mapping tutorials from folks, but we could really use some modeling, coding, or other tutorials if anyone has the time or inclination to lend a hand. Thanks again guys, I think this project has a good chance of being successful because it's being created by people from this forum. People come here because they are interested in the challenges of creating new things. I'm counting on that drive and spirit to push this thing through. Man, I've blah, blah, blahed way too much so I'll shut up now.....later guys.
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