I was wondering, could we put a picture of Dr. Opp, our Founder, on the Website?

Through a more old-fashioned communications method I've also received a request for national forms to be made available on-line, so if a cast runs out they can just print up some more (pledge cards, initiation reports, etc).

As soon as Dr. Fisher gets me copies to scan I'll be doing just that.

Also, a request was made to put up an online Playbill submission form.  At the moment, that won't be happening because the Playbill is still being assembled the old fashioned way, no computers involved.  As the Playbill goes more hi-tech, we'll go there.  There's certainly nothing stopping us from adding that to the website...

Hey Joel - any luck on getting pictures of items for sale from the NBM or the Founder's pic up on the new website?

James Fisher prints a picture of Dr. Opp in almost all the recent editions of Playbill.  You might try him for a computerized pic.  Just thought you'd like to know.

And yes, scanner troubles can be awful.  My old scanner doesn't work with my laptop.  Bugs the crap out of me sometimes.

Ahhh... the ever popular story of "round tuits".  I've got a lot of square ones, but I'll manage to do some of what you're suggesting when I get a round tuit.

Two problems with it, though.  First, I want to get the two sets of logins merged - the website has them, and so does this forum (look at the bottom of the left side menu and you'll see the login on the main site page.)  Second, anyone at all can sign up for the forums and I have no way to prove that anyone here is a member... including you, or even me.

The logins for the website are controlled directly by me - that's for updating the site, so the National Board and the Regional Representatives have logins.  I can thus control not only the authentication, but the authorization - you are who you say you are, and this is what you're allowed to do.  How can I do that here?

If *anyone* can answer that last question, I'll do it in a second.

Heh... YaBB is an antique, and as soon as I find something else that doesn't suck it'll be getting replaced.  phpBB is a horrible security hole, please don't bother suggesting it - I've used it elsewhere and I've had it broken in to.  This runs on my personal server, I'm not willing to risk that.  (Yes, I really host the national website on my own machine... it's what I do for a living as well.)

The concept of a cast-level login has been thought of and discussed somewhat.  The biggest problem is that we actually have contact information for... 15 casts?  20 casts?  In general we haven't been keeping useful records of that on the national level, so we have no way to send it out.  With the upcoming change of National Business Manager, things will be changing on our end, and hopefully there will be progress in this area.

I _finally_ have a picture of Dr. Opp posted with our history.