so these people have been already selected or will there be a vote?

gotcha, thanks

bakercad: we are going to do just that... the post will be edited in a moment...

We could just call those who have signed up moderators. we are still short some people...

read my edit to the original post, i said "we decided to give a few more days" for that exact reason bakercad... to get more people here and involved.

Hello Jeremy

Good to see you here, and apologies for not emailing you sooner lol, I'm still trying to go through my email contacts to see if there are any others that fancy joining us for a chat and stuff over here!

sean: Those extra days are great, exactly what I asked for. I wish that you had waited a few days with the administrator nominations as well, since not everyone who wanted to give that role a shot got the chance. Being effective is good, but since the community is the basis of the project it is good to give the message a chance to spread before too many major decisions are made.

andreas: i'm sure at some point there might be more admins for the site and having moderators as well will give a lot of influence from the community since things will be voted on...

my personal thoughts on you being an admin is you seem to be very busy with your own site and projects and what has caused issues with oswd and owd is only one or two people were doing things or had limited access... and for additional admins to work, there needs to be dedicated time given to any project so things don't just fall on one or two people.

a good example would be on OWD, if you look on the about page you will notice four maintainers/admins listed... and of course you've had admin access too even though not listed on the site... but in the past 6 months and pretty much after MonkeyMan sold the site, i was the only one doing approvals and the only one being active in the forums... with this new project, the hopes and ideas are more people will be involved...

i see you andreas as a marketing and fund raising machine... because you seem to shine in that area. what do you think? maybe there could be an official marketing / fund raising board or advisors with you being lead marketer?

That's why you become a mod, to become better known, and constantly helping things along. I look forward to seeing the new site in its uber-minimalist look. I want to be a mod to vote on issues, and approve designs. If each mod was allowed to approve/deny one design /per day, things would move quickly, as not every mod will even be doing approvals. That would also allow the admins to focus on bigger things: sponsors, contests, updates to site functionality. Admins: what privileges will moderators have?

seanrox: I never said that I wanted to be an admin. Really. As you wrote, that would take up a lot of time. I don't have that time, since I am already working full-time with building and running websites. That is why I wrote in the admin nomination thread that I didn't want to get nominated - but that I could always join the team later on to help out with other things.

I had the possibility. But other designers and site owners who wanted to get that chance didn't find out about it until the four (or really just three) nominees were up for the vote. I know that there is no perfect justice, but the rush isn't all good at all times.

Just my two cents here, but I think both the admins and mods should be in place before the site "gets rolling". Why start with only half of the "government" established?

If there is any room, I would enjoy being a moderator as well.

Should we list whatever moderating experience we have or something like that?

I would be happy to help as well. So I throw my hat in the ring so to speak, or anything else that may need some extra "man" power, I would be happy to assist as well.

Really excited, and looking forward to the future of opensource design.

Joe, I've decided not to be a moderator, after all. Could you please remove me from the list of nominees?

Joe, I'd like to do it as I said, but if you have too many people, you can drop me out as well. I don't want any tension if someone does not make it.

thanks Joe, I just think I'm maybe too emotional to be any good to you (it's the sensitive, artistic side of me )

moderators need to be level-headed and impartial, and thick-skinned..which I'm not.
I do know my own limitations..

instead, I'll help with theming...sourcing out and reviewing plugins, writing tutorials, and articles, and in general making a nuisance of myself...lol..kidding!

I'm curious, when are we voting and do the nominees get to vote for who they're going to work with? I'm only asking because I'm not going to be around much this weekend and I don't want to miss out on voting if nominees are allowed to.

Oh okay. Then I've got nothing to worry about.

Yes, like Joe said I also hope it has nothing to do with the "arguement" earlier.

p.s. Karen, we could do with some people like you on board to calm us all down if we get a bit worked up hehe

I think Karen would make a good mod because, honestly, she seems to be the most sensible of us all! Very "If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs..." as Mr Kipling one said ;-)

I think you just did ainslie.

Guru

I'm not sure about guru, but it looks like I just got a new project. Have you got a sample style/theme for the site?

Lman, how many people do you have for the moderator positions?

Ainslie is definitely a guru. If not for the nice themes, then definitely for making the Technorati top-20 list. Damn A-lister!

Building the author.php template is done in the same way as building a regular page template, with the difference that it usually ends up having more template tags. Good things to include on the author.php page are user data (including user presentation), submissions (attachments?) by this author, posts by this author, comments by this author and possibly also events by this author if you use events. Once the author template is ready, just link to the author pages from the appropiate places (for example "Post by [author]") and everything should be running smoothly.