Please help get the word out about this project!! In any role-playing-based forums you post regularly in (or in any gallery-based sci-fi site) please add a simple little link in your signature? Simply something like:

Proud supporter of the Star Frontiers Revival !

And have the "Star Frontiers Revival" be a link to this site? I would appreciate the support. I get no income from any of this stuff, and so my only joy is seeing the project grow. The webzine can certainly use more submissions, and that will only come from project growth. So help spread the love! Thanks much.

Stop looking at this site and not leaving me a note in the guestbook! The number of hits this site is getting is amazing to me, and I've had to upgrade the site's bandwidth limits because of all the downloading. Show me some love?

I want you all to know that this website is going to become a community of collaboration and development. We will all have ideas, issues, questions and answers, projects, agendas, and the need for other people's points of views. We can create something great if we all work together on it. I know I keep talking about a community website and you all keep coming back and checking on things... don't stop! I estimate a go-live time of about 2 weeks. That's an estimate I have that seems realistic.

Imagine having a forum where we discuss, collaborate, and create. Imagine having galleries where we share artwork that we find or create. Imagine having a wiki available where our collaborated projects can live and grow, being edited after discussions in the forum help decide the course and flow of a project. Imagine having a form to visit, click some clicks, type some types, and press a "submit" button... and have your collaborated hard work become a PDF for all to share and enjoy. I'm talking about open source role-playing like it's supposed to be: by fans, for fans, all free and very professional. 2 weeks... just stick with me!

Also: I've detached the link for the SFDT from my nav bar... people were confusing these two very separate projects and I was afraid that was going to result in losing support for the Digitally Remastered/StarFrontiersman project. I now have a "Links" nav option, which takes you to another page on my site. At the bottom of that page, you'll find a small form where you can submit a URL to other Star Frontiers related web sites and banner graphics. Anyone who wants me to link to them, just fill the form out and click "submit" and I'll have the link up in a jiffy! I know there are other sites out there!

1. Create a forum where the Star Frontiers community can discuss the game, start their own side projects, collaborate and create. This must include support for private messages and profiles. We are a community and communities have these things.

   The forums are being worked on. I'm trying to learn how to configure drupal forums. It's slow, but I'm trying very hard to get this part up and running fast. Private messages are intrinsically part of drupal, in the form of emails, as are profiles. I've made a profile, uploaded an avatar image, and will have the categories done soon. Can't wait til I can present all this!

2. Create a system for ease of submitting articles and adventures for publishing on our site. This includes but is not limited to articles for the StarFrontiersman magazine.

   I think this will be done via 1) a wiki built-into the site and 2) a contact form with fields to fill out (so we don't forget things like a byline!!). This same technique will be used to submit art and discuss it through commenting... I think. This part I'm just starting to look into, but it appears as if I will have several options.

3. Create a means by which gamers can find other gamers in their areas, specifically focused on but not limited to Star Frontiers (face it - we like all kinds of games!).

   The profile pages will be searchable, and with the use of forums and private messages and shared/editable wiki pages, this should be easy to accomplish by the community without need for special constructions from me.

4. Create a method for online gaming that includes character sheet web pages that get updated to show damage and the addition of gear and use of ammunition, but keep the core game focused in a chat room experience designed to facilitate gaming. I don't want this to ever feel like a video game. It's to replace sitting at a table, that's all.

   Back burner while I work on the stuff above.

New Concepts to Consider:
After an email I received that included suggestions, I think having an ability to create private art galleries where people can comment would be really cool. I don't have the slightest idea how to do this, but I'm working with someone who has great skill in community-based web development. He goes by the screenname "simple" and I am happy he's working with us.

I am meeting with someone today about getting some help setting up forums on this site. I would like a simple forum structure to discuss the "Digitally Remastered" project as a whole - and to give a nice little home for submitters to the StarFrontiersman webzine. I have always seen this as a project by fans for fans - all for free. The very concept of that statement screams for a community structure, and I can't imagine any other way to form a community than through the foundation of a forum.

Unfortunately, my web-fu is weak. One of the fans of SF who was re-energized by our project (wow - I don't even think of it as "my" project any more... that's nice) is an accomplished web designer who has expertise in community-driven web site design. I'm meeting with him today (about fifteen minutes actually) to discuss the future organization of this site. Some of my goals

1. Create a forum where the Star Frontiers community can discuss the game, start their own side projects, collaborate and create. This must include support for private messages and profiles. We are a community and communities have these things.
2. Create a system for ease of submitting articles and adventures for publishing on our site. This includes but is not limited to articles for the StarFrontiersman magazine.
3. Create a means by which gamers can find other gamers in their areas, specifically focused on but not limited to Star Frontiers (face it - we like all kinds of games!).
4. Create a method for online gaming that includes character sheet web pages that get updated to show damage and the addition of gear and use of ammunition, but keep the core game focused in a chat room experience designed to facilitate gaming. I don't want this to ever feel like a video game. It's to replace sitting at a table, that's all.

Those are my goals for the moment. If anyone wants to suggest any additional community-related concepts, please do so by clicking on the "Email me" link to the left in the navigation bar. I reply to every email!