First Step?

What should be our first step?

Chemical Patriot has registered coalpha.com and I have registered coalpha.org .  Chemical Patriot suggested putting together some content for a site, but I am not sure if this is needed right away.  My feeling is that first we should get together a small core group of people and then we can decide how to proceed with the site.

As I said in my "Goals" thread, I would like a clear idea of membership.  I can easily create a private forum here that members could then participate in.  I suggest that we agree on some kind of vow and then we can take the vow and become members.  Once we have a few members, we can decide on some process for accepting new members.  Does this make sense?

Once we have members in a private forum, I suggest each of us post an intro that includes our real names and real contact info.  I also suggest we each tell what we can offer and what we want.  The idea of the CoAlpha Brotherhood is meaningful cooperation, we let's see what we can do for each other.  I'll write mine as an example.

What I can offer is technical help to anyone who needs it since I am a programmer.  I am working on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and should be able to offer this soon.  I can also offer a place to stay for anyone in my area once I finally settle down (this month, I hope).  I can offer homeschooling advice, since I am doing this.  My wife is Mexican and she may be able to help anyone looking for a latin girlfriend.  What I am looking for:  If anyone has kids the same ages as mine (13 and 10), I would like to get our kids together.  It is important for kids to see other people sharing the same values.  Similarly it would be nice get wives/girlfriends together for much the same reason.  And of course we should get together.

Any other ideas for our first step is welcome.  Let's decide what to do, and then do it.

I think a private forum is a good idea.  What I can offer is nutrition advice (since I will be a dietitian and then work on my Ph. D. in nutrition), and also I'm into all aspects of investing.  I am interested in home schooling but I don't have any kids on the way so that's not an issue right now.  

I can also help pay for forum software if need be (ie. Invision Power Board or vBulletin) to establish a nice online community.  

Thanks, I went ahead and created a private forum where you can post.

On the forum software side, I am a little biased because I am involved with Nabble where this is hosted.  In truth, I don't think Nabble is all that great as it is now.  But we are working on making Nabble incredibly flexible, something like Drupal.  So I think it will be a great platform.  If there is anything specific that you want, I can easily add it to Nabble.

Creating this CoAlpha Brotherhood forum is actually what made me see how limited Nabble is and what is really needed.  So now I am quite busy making Nabble into an ideal platform.  Of course I will continue to push this CoAlpha Brotherhood idea and see if anything comes of it.

Hi fschmidt

I clicked on the link in the Men's Rights boards.

I'd be very interested in joining your private forum if that was possible.

I can contribute and have lots of ideas that with your permission I'd like to share with your members.

It would be great if I could join and help with the struggle against the feminazis!

Kind regards

Sure, I can add you if you register with Nabble.  But you should know that I just started this and I just created the Private Forum a few days ago and it is empty.  I added a few people.  It would be great if you could help get this started.

I went ahead and wrote up a basic code/vow which includes a membership process, here:

http://coalpha.wikispaces.com/

It is basically a blank slate because I don't want to define many rules until we have more members.  I will apply the rules now.