I'm flying up to Pretoria today and won't be back until Monday afternoon, so I'll be taking a short break from posting. Normal service will be resumed after I get back home and have had a decent cup of tea.
I'm shortly going to be launching a forum "dedicated to fine art metalwork and associated arts"; It'll be called Helicon. The site has been bought and now needs to be set up as we want to see it. I've press ganged a few "volunteers" into acting as admin with me so It will be a collaborative effort. We hope to create a space for serious and in depth discussion, instruction and interaction. I propose to allow posting in any language and would like to see the group evolve into a self regulating and mature society...we'll see. I have a few ideas that I think may go some way to helping stimulate this ideal.
Have a pleasant week-end, where-ever you are, and I'll be back next week. If you like to drop a note in the comments section, particularly if you are in some far away part of the world ( you all are, actually! ) I'd love to hear from you.
Regards, Ford
4 comments:
Hey Ford,
I'm happy to see the ideia of the your site come to life, and the instructional forum sounds like better
Congratulations and good speed,
(from a far part of world, brazil)
Thanks, I'll let you know when we've got something online.
Dear Ford, i follow everyday your blog. I am looking forward to see forum too.. and, as i understood, you will allow other language speakers... i hope so, i will be one of the first users.
chears from your big fan Lorenzo
Hi Lorenzo,
Yes, I don't want non-English speakers to feel excluded so I think that if groups of say; Italian speakers communicate with each other on the forum then perhaps between them they could also help each other to convey their meaning or questions to other non-Italian users.
It might make it a bit tricky at times and will certainly take some effort but if you want to travel the world and experience different cultures this also takes a lot of effort.
Ciao, Ford
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