Well as some of you may have noticed, the site isnt up yet. Then we've shifted from a parked domain name to being "server not found". This in essence could be called progress as it means we've pointed the domain at the server but the server does not have anything to offer back as of yet. I'm hoping with the holiday hubub and remodeling out of the way server side can initiate the site today, but I'm hoping no later than Wednesday. I think we are looking to try out Xoop or Drupel for our software.

Another thing that I was really excited about doing before today was officially announcing my first staff member but I have not heard from him since last we talked so there is going to be a delay concerning that matter. I hope he's okay and that nothing bad happened.

Some of you, actually most of you are expressing a lot of enthusiasm not just about the site but about having something to do with it, but with recent events on FA are left feeling a little hopeless and then that tends to cast a shadow over what is already a touchy territory... our egos, and you express a sense and feeling of really not being able to amount to much that would help with the site here. There are other things that muddle the situation, like the big one... there not really being a site to look at right now... But for those of you who I sent notes out to this first go around, it was because I really really felt that after watching your part in the community for the last decade I thought you could be integral in having some part even if only you gave the slightest effort, into making this community project a success. You don't have to be the most genius and experienced admin like Dragoneer, you don't have to be popufur like Uncle Kage, and you dont have to know PHP or HTML in and out so well you hold 5 degrees in it or some obscure technical PHD. Most of you that I sent notes out to express a passion and depth of character through your art, some of you are show very strong conviction in your presence and ideals concerning the community that we are shooting for and just a glorious stance as far as the general well being and freedom of everyone. As far as I know, I didnt send notes to anyone who was superficial or could care less. Now, that's not to say that in the moment the wounds could be fresh enough and sore enough that the biggest part of you on the outside could give a fuck if the world collapses in on its self, but what I'm talking about is the real you, the core you, the average you that has been seen over the years or for a few of you months.

Another things related strongly to that, that I think is making it hard for you to decide what part you could help in, is that there is such an overwhelmingly open call of parts to play, and I'm being rather unspecific when it comes to you asking what I would like you to do.

First and foremost I do not want you to have to do anything that would place too much of a burden on you unless you feel that to some extent a little added motivation can be achieved by doing so. But key to what I'm trying to do here, I'm looking for as much stability and consistency as I can manage for the site, so I don't want you to get involved and then a few weeks or months down the road suddenly disappear and when I finally get in touch with you and ask what happened you say it just all got to be too much and you got burned out. See, here at the start when everything is dark and without tangible form, there is everything to do, there are large tasks, a lot of in between tasks, and there are smaller parts to play, there is so much that there is no reason you should pick something that you would not enjoy doing for a long term and there is so much that you can literally pick anything, except pretty much site owner... I beat ya to it. If you dont know what you can do, I cant know what to put you to that would be best for you and me and the community we're trying to build. I'm pretty good at hashing things out with people in chat, if you can give some time to it without attempting to multi task... which typically means playing games at the same time as trying to figure out something with some seriousness to it. So if you can find a save point, or just put down the controller and focus for a fair amount of time, it always turns out that we can figure out a pretty good part for you to play and sometimes the "perfect" task.

Never the less it seems that maybe a stronger sense of structure will help us along so one of the things that I'll add to my priorities is attempting to write up a list of positions that need to be filled.

So just to give you an idea of what I'm working on most right now... In this order...

1: Tending to technical matters with getting the site live, if even in a "raw" state.
2: Forming my team - Chatting with and otherwise keeping up with the overwhelming positive response here on cubAffinity on FurAffinity. In the last few days I've handled almost 100 correspondences.
3: Writing up a rough draft of what will be our site policy.
4: Writing up a rough draft of positions I need filled.
5: Managing some creative content like the pictures uploaded here recently, so there is something fun in the midst of all the seriousness right now.

I hope you all will remain enthusiastic and patient with me while we work hard on making this happen.

PS: Any of you catch a glimps of our first troll before I nabbed 'im?