Yes, you guys think in good directions. I had a great phone conversation with Ryan-O last night. We agreed that I could now pimp him out on myspace... just kidding! :-) We talked about a lot of things that would benefit the community. In the course of our chat we came up with a concept we'll call "cross-pollenize" to help each other promote our respective events. We already do it in many ways and I felt it needed a name, so there you go.

If we are to embrace Tribe with all of it's plusses and minuses including down-time, then we might consider a single moderated "portal" tribe with a simple, catchy name and short URL that links to all the other Burner-related tribes. I nominate Ryan-O to start it, name it, and administrate it to keep the spam out and the content in. This way, anything else sent out can point to this central link as a launch pad for local burner interests. The only other way that would work is a fully dedicated website and that's just a lot of work. Maybe for the future. I suppose we could cough up $8.95 for a catchy URL that points to it so if the Tribe thing ends up not working we can just change the forwarding.

I did have an e-mail sign in sheet at the last Yuri's Night meeting and about half the people signed it and some even offered their physical snail mail addresses (I like to send real thank you cards). Based on Nathan's suggestions, here's some text that might be considered to put at the top of it in the future:

THIS IS: A sign in sheet to keep you informed about Burner community, related events and information only.
THIS IS NOT: An attempt to spam, sell or exploit you.

'Nuff said?
I still need contact information for crew volunteers so maybe a check boxe next to their names letting them opt-in to be on the crew list for the specific event or project. Also, adding a space for them to insert their "Tribe Name" would be helpful.