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Well, now that we have the forum up and running, and the blog in place for when we actually have something to blog about, it is time to turn our attention to recruiting. I would like to build the absolute best recruiting site that we possibly can. I am not talking about just a forum where we have sticky topics and posts, although that will be a small part of it. That is fine if that is the only capability you have. But we are not constrained by that limitation. We can build whatever we want. This site didn't even exist until last week, and look at it now. Imagine what we can do if we focus on building a recruiting site for a few weeks. I am very excited about this next phase of the site.

I was hoping that Tidal Surge would make his way over here by now to help us out. But I suppose he has too much hard work invested in the other place, and I can't blame him for not wanting to do the work all over again. If he does decide to come over, we welcome his insights and participation.

However, I am sure that there are others who would be willing to step up and help out. The first thing we need to do is build a list of requirements for what we want from the recruiting section. Here are some of my initial thoughts:

1. We need a recruiting database to capture all of the information about the recruits. I will need your help to define what types of information we want to track for each recruit. By capturing this information in a database, we don't have to worry about posting templates or anything like that. The database will store the raw information, and the web site will generate a nicely formatted view of that information.

2. This will probably end up being a series of pages. The master page will be accessed by a Recruiting command on the main site menu between Forum and Members. That page will probably have a list of the recruits and some basic information about each one.

3. You click on the recruit to see his details. That will take you to another page with all of his information. We need to put together a list of everything we want to store, but things like pictures, videos, tweets, news articles, etc. will be readily available. Another cool thing is that we can actually watch the videos without leaving the site if they are on youtube.

4. Each recruit will also have a sub-forum that is dedicated to that recruit, for any sort of forum discussion that takes place about him. This forum board will be accessed from the recruits web page.

So, if you would like to help out in some way, please reply to this article with your comments or suggestions. I am a professional software engineer, so I can handle all of the technical stuff. Don't be intimidated by that aspect of the project. I know some of you have serious computer skills as well, and I am sure we can make use of your talents if you would like to contribute in that way. But the great majority of the work will be actually collecting the recruiting data, and helping determine what types of data should be collected in the first place. Once that data is collected, we need people who are knowledgeable about recruiting to look it over, verify it, and edit it as necessary. So there is plenty of work to go around, even if you don't know anything about computer programming. Let's use the replies to this article as a place to brainstorm and see what we can come up with.

It should be pretty interesting. I am excited to hear the ideas that you guys put forth.