Red
02-12-2004, 12:04 AM
Recent circumstances have led the staff of Savefarscape.com to reconsider our participation in the Farscape Webmaster's Association.
The Farscape Webmaster's Association was originally founded by SFS.com in an attempt to open up communications with other Farscape websites and to maintain a central fund to help focus activities. Over the course of the campaign, FWA members have come and gone, and we feel now that the FWA has drifted far from its original purpose of communication between sites and fund management. We believe that our energies are today better spent focusing on the operation of our site and the campaign, than on debating a change in purpose of the FWA that we are extremely uncomfortable with.
The FWA has worked hard over the past 17 months to exist as an excellent resource for the campaign, but SFS.com feels that it is time to move forward by actively adapting to changes and embracing flexible strategies, becoming an even more open and inclusive campaign.
SFS.com's founding principle was to exist solely as a resource for fans who wanted to help save Farscape. We exist to offer information, assistance, guidance, fund help and management, a place to talk, theorize, and form a strong, open community. However, we have no desire or intention to tell you how to run your campaign. We strongly believe that the success of this campaign has been entirely at your initiative. We would not have come as far, been so strong, had our great successes if any one entity or small group had a stranglehold on deciding what ideas were valid or not.
Yes, as a site, SFS.com has drawn certain lines from time to time, but those decisions were made for the site, not the campaign. Each website has it's own operating principles and SFS.com is no different. We all must do the best we can, and occasionally we must make choices that are not always easy or popular.
This is just one of several changes coming for Savefarscape.com over the next days and weeks. We believe these are good changes and that these are changes necessary for the continued good health and vitality of our part in this campaign, in this website and for the people who have formed such a remarkable community here.
Some new changes coming …
• A redesign of the main pages of this site and an improved content management system. This will allow fans to more directly add to, and update the content of our website, including access for regional groups to post their events and news.
• A new SPF general fund for conventions and co-op advertising.
• A huge new subsite of Watchfarscape.com that will house our media library.
• New features in our forums to enhance your community experience.
• Projectscifi.com will get a strong new relaunch where we will bring you new and unique content from the wide, strange world of speculative fiction.
As always, we need your help. These changes will put more of the power of this site into your hands, and by doing so hopefully draw in even more new members, growing our amazing community even more and making the future a bright one for Farscape.
We wish the current members of the FWA the best of luck. SFS.com exists as a resource for all Farscape fans, including the individual Scapers in the FWA.
Scape on!
The Farscape Webmaster's Association was originally founded by SFS.com in an attempt to open up communications with other Farscape websites and to maintain a central fund to help focus activities. Over the course of the campaign, FWA members have come and gone, and we feel now that the FWA has drifted far from its original purpose of communication between sites and fund management. We believe that our energies are today better spent focusing on the operation of our site and the campaign, than on debating a change in purpose of the FWA that we are extremely uncomfortable with.
The FWA has worked hard over the past 17 months to exist as an excellent resource for the campaign, but SFS.com feels that it is time to move forward by actively adapting to changes and embracing flexible strategies, becoming an even more open and inclusive campaign.
SFS.com's founding principle was to exist solely as a resource for fans who wanted to help save Farscape. We exist to offer information, assistance, guidance, fund help and management, a place to talk, theorize, and form a strong, open community. However, we have no desire or intention to tell you how to run your campaign. We strongly believe that the success of this campaign has been entirely at your initiative. We would not have come as far, been so strong, had our great successes if any one entity or small group had a stranglehold on deciding what ideas were valid or not.
Yes, as a site, SFS.com has drawn certain lines from time to time, but those decisions were made for the site, not the campaign. Each website has it's own operating principles and SFS.com is no different. We all must do the best we can, and occasionally we must make choices that are not always easy or popular.
This is just one of several changes coming for Savefarscape.com over the next days and weeks. We believe these are good changes and that these are changes necessary for the continued good health and vitality of our part in this campaign, in this website and for the people who have formed such a remarkable community here.
Some new changes coming …
• A redesign of the main pages of this site and an improved content management system. This will allow fans to more directly add to, and update the content of our website, including access for regional groups to post their events and news.
• A new SPF general fund for conventions and co-op advertising.
• A huge new subsite of Watchfarscape.com that will house our media library.
• New features in our forums to enhance your community experience.
• Projectscifi.com will get a strong new relaunch where we will bring you new and unique content from the wide, strange world of speculative fiction.
As always, we need your help. These changes will put more of the power of this site into your hands, and by doing so hopefully draw in even more new members, growing our amazing community even more and making the future a bright one for Farscape.
We wish the current members of the FWA the best of luck. SFS.com exists as a resource for all Farscape fans, including the individual Scapers in the FWA.
Scape on!