THDL Community Status

June 1, 2003: The Community project was first released in June, 2003. This initial forum includes a powerful Community roster allowing individuals and organizations to make their own descriptive entries. In addition, it includes an array of discussion forums and mailing lists to promote conversation among those interested in Tibet and the Himalayas. We have also opened up the Links section providing an annotated guide to Web resources, as well as the Announcements section providing announcements on various items of interest. However, these two sections are currently limited in scope since we have not established true data driven repositories for managing and presenting them.

We expect some problems in the discussion forums and mailing lists initially as we locate moderators, and gain experience with managing such facilities. We urge interested individuals to contact us to volunteer to act as moderators.

Our next focus is on converting the Links and Announcements sections into proper data driven repositories, and then working to fill them out with a healthy range of materials. We expect these two both be established in 2003, but have not yet established a firm date. In the meantime, we are looking for individuals willing to help out as editors in these sections.