superquad7 wrote:Seibertron wrote:Just for the record to make it clear for everyone what the primary objection is ... Transtopia will reside one day in the near future at
http://www.seibertron.com/transtopia. tfmaster.com will be turned into a memorial website for Bill. The future look of Transtopia will match the look of Seibertron.com.
Objective you mean?
I guess I'm wondering how everything that is not TFM (Bill)'s will be transplanted there (such as other user's posts, the kitbashing articles, etc). What about the staff here (such as myself and the others who staff Transtopia)? What is our fate? At any rate, Ryan, as long as you're communicative as you have been recently, things shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Heh heh ... that was quicker than I could edit it. Yes, I meant "objective" ... I was in the process of editing the post.
As for the content on Transtopia ... I haven't quite figured out how to import the content from Transtopia to Seibertron.com. My website is 95% dynamic. There are no hard-coded pages on the site. Most everything runs out of the database which means that I need to figure out somehow to associate the content here on Transtopia with the content on Seibertron.com. I imagine that I will write a script that dumps all of the content into a database first and then work with the Transtopia moderators to sort out which user accounts on Seibertron.com to associate with the various galleries. It's going to be a lot of manual work to do this initially but it will make a huge difference to how easily the content will be able to be used throughout the entire Seibertron.com website.
As for the staff ... it really comes down to who's willing to step up to the plate to help make sure that Bill's dream continues. I don't even know the full site roster here. I've been talking on and off with Devastator briefly via email for the past 3 or 4 months. I've also communicated a couple of times with JAF. Pepie contacted me earlier this week. No one else has contacted me from the Transtopia staff yet outside of this post. I'm very flexible about staff members so long as the people who say they want to help can actually help on a regular basis (i.e. generally make a presence on the site daily or at least a few times a week). There's a lot of work to be done.
I want to be as communicative as possible so that no one here thinks that I'm cold heartedly taking over Transtopia. I want you guys to know that I'm here to help expand and build upon your community. I want you guys to know that I want you to get the massive amounts of exposure that Bill thought all of you deserved. I want what's best for Transtopia ... and I need everyone to understand that there's going to be a lot of changes and probably a lot of heartaches.
I feel extremely awkward being in this position. If I didn't know Bill personally, I probably would've given the keys over to someone else in this situation but since I knew Bill on a personal level, I am now obligated to complete his vision and his dream. I need everyone to support the changes that he wanted. In order to do that during these difficult times for the Transtopia community, I have to do my part which is to communicate with all of you so that I can become overloaded with an immense wealth of knowledge to hopefully fill some of the void left behind by Bill. I need you guys to help guide me to fulfill his dream/vision. In order to accomplish his ideas, I need your constant help and guidance to do what is right for Transtopia.
This is a scary endeavor for me. I don't want to do the wrong thing. I don't want to say the wrong thing. This is a delicate and sensitive situation. All I know is what Bill expressed to me about Transtopia. It's up to us to work together to complete his dream. I can only do that if I communicate with you guys as much as possible during this process. I hope that none of you think that I am being cold or uncaring. What I am doing now is out of a sense of urgency to do what I feel is right for Bill (with the Transtopia community) and for his family (with tfmaster.com as a tribute website). I need you guys to give me as many suggestions and advice as possible so that we can collectively do what's right.
I owe that to this community and to Bill to do the right thing with Transtopia.
