So... I think I understand pretty much everything you just said Icedtea.
When Cal Taylor and Rich Higgins got banned, I was so ticked off I just left this site. Others got banned, others just left during that period. I stayed completely away for years. As I think I've mentioned in this thread, during those years and even for some years after I started posting again I'd have lit the match to burn this place down. I get that people have hard feelings from the old bad dealings. I was there. I was effected by it, I had hard, hard feelings.
But that really is all in the past. So far in the past I just don't care about any of that anymore. Redfrog and Mock are gone. Well, I guess Redfrog is still a moderator but he hasn't even logged in here for months and he has no say about anything anymore. I kind of doubt we'll ever hear from him again, but if we do, he has zero say, about anything. Mock quit. He's out. Period.
What we have now, is a new Board of Directors. Who are all just regular guys with regular jobs and regular families. Who are all pulling together to do just exactly what you asked for. None of us does, or legally can, make a cent off this. We do it for free. But because we are just regular guys with regular lives it's not like we are all talking all the time about this place either. We're not some corporate outfit. And none of us are "owners", by the way. That's not how our legal structure works.
My motivation for joining the BoD and volunteering my time is precisely to get this place, not back to where it was, but to where it should have been.
So, anyway, yeah, we're going to get this place outfitted in modern trim. That has to happen or this place dies, period. But we ARE going to get this place migrated to brandy new shiny modern software with all the cool stuff. That's not a maybe. We have multiple paths to get there that can all work and we are just getting all our ducks in a row on how to do it best. Going to take some time - none of us have the hours available to push this along truly fast.
Oh, and yes, we need money to make everything work. We'll go out and get it by, gasp, having sponsors. That's just how this works. If the core membership really feels like my being Foxpro Field Staff is a conflict of interest with being a BoD, I'll step down and hand off to hopefully someone more energetic and capable. Not before the migration is done though - I'm going to see that through.
And then, like I said, the rest is up to the rest of us. I'm feeling pretty confident. I mean, heck, Cal got banned and I quit over it and look who are both posting with positive outlooks for PM right here in this thread?
- DAA