Hello from Transition Town North Bay

I'm putting the finishing touches on a website (ttnorthbay.org) for our local initiative in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. If I had known this project was under way I would have done it in Drupal instead of Joomla but there is always version 2.

I think it's pretty much a standard site with discussion forums, a newsletter, newsfeeds, etc. About the only thing unique is that we've set up an amazon.ca affiliate bookstore to help fund webhosting, etc.

The primary opportunity I see is for all the various initiatives around the world to share content with each other, like a primer on peak oil can be developed as a group and included in multiple sites. It would also be neat to have some sort of shared discussion forum and online chat.

The problem in our area is it's hard to keep people actively involved in Transition because everyone is so busy and we are still so few in numbers that it can be a bit discouraging at times. It would be nice to have the appearance of a larger community so people feel there is some momentum behind this thing.

But I'll make a point of getting caught up on the posts and hopefully find a roll for myself in this thing. Give me a couple of days.