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[GeekNNC]

Was "Back in Black" but enough wanted light (went with white) background.

Please offer more suggestions, esp. about categories.  BTW, the image for the forum is a photo I took last year in Nevada.

[JBB]

I was just thinking about that.  Do we really need a forum for Microsoft, and then another forum for everything else?

Here is a possible list of forums.  I favor going with more forums than fewer forums.  This is because I like having everything organized in locations where information can be found.  The Search engine on EzBoard sucks, so having more forums facilitates the need to be able to find past threads.

How about:

1.  Managing the Consultant / Client Relationship
2.  Managing the Contractor / Broker Relationship
3.  Sales and Marketing Tips
4.  Interviewing Skills
5.  Broker Contract Questions
6.  Client Contract Questions
7.  Business Formation and Management
8.  Miscellaneous Tax and Legal Questions  
9.  Hardware and Administration
10.  Software and Development
11.  Political Issues
12.  Crazy Stories / Humour
13.  Coffee Talk
14.  Web Sites and Books

I know that's a lot of forums, but the number of messages posted won't really be any different with fewer forums.  This way, we can find something we need, when we need it.

Anyway, just a suggestion

[Randy Given]

The image is very cool. Being anal, the slight imbalance throws me a bit, but I am not complaining. It is really cool and so MUCH BETTER than ... you know.

[jbucks]

I like what yuo've done..

Jim

[JTGalt]

That is a great picture to create a positive, uplifting, optimistic mood for starting a new journey.

As for categories, if Coffee talk is the general category just monitor what the posted topics are and if any of them tends to dominate that section with over 50 percent of the posts or whatever you think is appropriate then that topic probably deserves its own section.

You know that sooner or later someone is going to post something about an encounter with a bork which sets off the hot button on many people so sooner or later you will have to create a Bork Talk category.

Now you know there is a link to the Open IT Board from another board which describes it as a place for people who prefer the negative direction.
But people following that link for that purpose will become confused and disoriented because there is not enough negativity here.

You might have to set up a special section for them and title it:
The Dank Dungeon Of Doom
or
The Nattering Nadir of Negativity
or simply
The Negative Direction

and fill it with so many gloom and doom, end of the world stories that it actually becomes ridiculous, a spoof.

And of course because you can make individual forums have their own color scheme just use very dark black colors for this particular forum.

[David Cressey]

A few Suggestions:

Analysis, Modeling & Design

I was going to suggest "Data Modeling and Design"  but I like "Analysis, Modeling & Design" better.


Connectivity

This would be a general category for everything you use to get bits from here to there, from the Internet down to the USB. The name "connectivity"  may be a little lame,  but I prefer it to "data communication"  or "networking",  both of which sound more specific than what I'm looking for.

Legacy

A place for us oldtimers to discuss MVS, CICS, IMS, IDMS, ISAM, DEC VMS,  etc., without mixing it up with Sun and Oracle.

[jacare35]

RealRates is no fun anymore.  And I like to post for entertainment, especially since I'm on the road all the time.

[theunixguru]

GNNC-

I have a suggestion for some forum names:

Why I hated RX2
J*n** needs to check her hypocrisy
Is RX2 communistic?
Am I negative for posting the truth?
Why did I contribute $$ to RX2 and get censored?

Just some ideas!!
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p.s. Opps I'm being negative... ;( Oh yeah it doesnt matter!!!! YIPPEEEEE

[Dick Young1]

An emphatic second to David's suggestion for a forum for us antedeluvian mainframers to roar about all you impudent young whippersnappers.  "Mainframe" or "Legacy" would both be acceptable, (I'm not picky - call me anything but don't call me late for supper or payday).  However, with all the amazing things being done with the mainframe today as "Super Web Hosts" running a jillion Unix or Linux instances, I think "Legacy" is a bit condescending - and more than a bit untrue.

However, just a quibble.  So far I do like most of the other forums.

[RMPCP]

Instead of mainframe or legacy, how about Mature Technologies?  There are lots of interesting legacy platforms like the IBM Series/1 - OK, well interesting historically anyway, I'll probably never find another contract doing that - and of course mainframes are modern as well as legacy.

Or if not Mature Technologies, how about UnderAppreciated Technologies? That could include OS/2, Delphi, anything currently out of favor in the market which is/was a good product. Also of course it could cover the fact that many of the concepts which have been promoted these days have been around for years in earlier incarnations.

[A Murricun]

Screw that.

I have just appointed myself head anti-euphemism, anti-PC Shuruff.