December 2008 WGA Forums Changes
12/22/2008

A number of resolutions were passed by the Board over the last few weeks that resulted in changes to the WGA forums. These were “batched” up and introduced en masse on December 21st. A number of new forums were introduced, a couple forums were archived, and several existing private leadership forums were added to the forum listing.
The following new forums were created:

– Puzzle Caches
– Benchmarking
– Lonely Cache Game
– Tech Talk
– Geo-Campout 2009

Remember that forums can be hidden if you are not interested in seeing them in the forum listing / index. Click on the name of the forum to enter it, and then click the small “Hide this forum” link in the upper right hand corner.

As the number of forums continues to grow, we realize that we may need to come up with a better way of categorizing them or devise some sort of terse forum listing. (Ideas are welcome!)

The following existing forums were retired / archived:

– Wisconsin DNR
– Geo-Picnic 2008 (for obvious reasons)

Archived forums can still be viewed by going to the drop down menu in the Archived/Locked Forums section at the bottom of the forum listing.

We also put most of the private “Leadership Forums” in the forums listing. These can only be entered by users with the appropriate permissions. This was done to highlight the fact that there are these committees out there that are working on behalf of the WGA. Hopefully making the existence of these committees more visible will spur some interest in serving on them. There is currently no (easy) way to hide these forums (since you can’t enter them to get at the “Hide this forum” link), but we should have something that will allow this soon.