I'm proud to announce that the new and improved BurningManSeattle.com site has launched! WOOT! This site is intended to be the electronic hub of the local Burner-oriented community, and has a whole bunch of fun stuff to help make that possible. So while I put the site together it sure as heck isn't "my" site. It's yours.

Now, you'll notice that there isn't a lot here. This is because it's up to you, the community and you, you in specific, to put stuff here. We've set this site up so that it's easy to register and write articles, post pictures, discuss stuff in the forum, add stuff to the wiki, add events to the calendar, submit links...and more. 

So, it's up to you to fill this site with goodies. Yes, you! After you've registered you can write articles on the site just by clicking the 'new' button on each content page. You can add items to the gallery from your profile page. You can add events to the calendar in just a few clicks. Please, go ahead and try it. You can't break anything. Post something. Anything. Anywhere you can! You don't have to know HTML to do any of these things, just click click click and presto, it's on the site.

Enough of the hippie crap. Here's what we need to make this site totally awesome:

We need Authors!

• Articles about Burning Man, Critical Massive, the local community. 
• FAQ Authors -- we need to re-write the Newbie Faq and write FAQs about Critical Massive and SeaCompression
• News writers -- Want to write a Weekend Roundup Report? Or make sure burners in the news get onto the site? You totally can!
• Bloggers -- Put your art project's blog onto the site. It's easy!
• WIKI authors -- We have a WIKI, and it needs content, like, bad.
• Photographers -- The Photo Gallery needs your photos. Upload a few. Or a hundred.
• Got an idea? I bet there's a place for it on this site.

We need Editors and Moderators!

In order to have some modicum of sanity and good taste, we're going to need moderators and editors. 

• Content Editors -- Make sure site content is somewhat presentable and in good taste
• SeaPlaya Forum Manager -- Administrate the forum. Manage and create categories. Start discussions!
• WIKI Manager -- Manage the WIKI and keep it happy. Add new categories. Encourage users to add to it.
• Grand Master FAQ -- moderate FAQs submitted by users, add new FAQs as necessary
• Gallery Administrator/Photo Editor -- Take care of the photo gallery, add galleries, nominate photos for site-wide display
• Event Listings moderator -- Manage the event listings, encourage people to add events
• User Administrators -- Manage users. Add users to author/editor groups as necessary.

  We REALLY need a Technology Team!

 If I have to do all the tech stuff for this site it won't work. I will go crazy. It will suck. We need the following kinds of people to help us avoid a future where I am crazy and the site sucks:

• Designers -- Please oh god help us make the site look more exciting!
• HTML/CSS Tweaker -- Help implement the ideas that the designers come up with
• QA/Testers -- Try to break the site. Try to hack the site. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
• Help Desk -- Track bugs, respond to users with site/technical questions, triage user requests
• Joomla Administrators -- You know who you are. You know what you do. Please help!
• Social Network Integrators -- Integrate social networks into the BurningManSeattle.com site
• PHP Coders -- Hack php code to make everything just perfect
• Unix Systems Administrators -- We're on Solaris now, hopefully we'll move to CentOS or a RHEL thing soon. Help us do it right!
• MySql DBA & SQL wizards -- Keep our database happy as a chihuahua in a sunbeam!

 So...Go ahead. Register. Contribute. Bask in the healthy glow that the modern content contributor emits at all times. You know you wanna.