Hi folks,

I'm going to reorganise the boards in this forum.  This site started as the victorian website only, however the forum has started to attract people from around Australia - the Queensland club now has a link to this forum from their home page.  I think we should definitely welcome the wider Alfa community in Australia for as long as they want to use and contribute to the forum.

Note: this isn't a personal agenda to build a big website.  Forums have a lifecycle of their own - there's not a lot you can do as a webmaster to make people come and contribute on a forum.  If it doesn't work it doesn't work.  Having said that the Vics alone kept a decent chat going on this forum.

With more than just mexicans on the forum, I think a re-org is in order.  I'd like to propose the following - compare this to the front page of our forum now:

General Category
 - General Discussion
 - Introduce Yourself
 - Photos & Videos
 - Off Topic (a new board for anything non-car-related.  politics, football etc.)
 - Buy/Swap/Sell

Technial
 - 105/115 Series (105 Coupe/Spider/Berlina)
 - 116 Series (Alfetta Sedan/GT/GTV & Giulietta Sedan)
 - 160 Series (90, 75, 164 Sedans)
 - 900 Series (Alfasud, Alfasud Sprint, 33)
 - Current Models (GTV, Spider, 147, 156, 159, 166)
 - Other (pre-105, specials)

State Divisions
 - Victoria (would be the current "General" board)
    - Motorsport
    - Historic Group S Challenge
 - Queensland
 - Western Australia
 - New South Wales

Other
 - Motorsport Administration

Updated: put all state division boards together, and moved motorsport and historic group S challenge to be sub-boards of the general Victorian board.
Updated: added an "other" board for pre-105, or any other kind of Alfa not covered by the categories

As victoria already has a division between general and motorsport (and the group S challenge) it kind of requires it's own category.  Maybe we could flatten that later.  It does seem like a long list, but the parts of national interest are at the top.  I've also left SA (they use alfabb.com) off the list, although they'd be welcome of course.

Let me know what you think....

thanks, Evan.

Sounds good to me, the more people we can get involved the better.

It'd be great if people could comment specifically on the organisation of the boards and categories - if you have an opinion.

thanks, Evan.

few opinions as requested by master Evan

technical bulletins, as proposed, probably cover over 90% if not more of the car population but maybe we shoudl have "other section" including pre 105 cars, or  "specials' and even non-alfa cars

the state forums look little bit slanted towards Vic but i think your explanation covers it well. Brad's suggestion would be good if there were that many levels of hierarchy available.  I agree that it is better to start with proposed state bulletins and then bring them up a level if the interest is there. There is no point in creating a structure if people are not going to use it. Other way be to create all states at the top level and create only a general section to start with. Does that create too much overhead?

my 2c (as you can see talk is cheap)

I didn't think there was more than one level of hierarchy, but it seems there is.  So I've refined my original list with your suggestions.

Last chance to comment before I switch around the forum structure - I'll try to find some time tomorrow.  I'm not removing any boards really, so I guess no one will get too upset.

thanks,
Evan.

I'd add to that Scott, the 900 series should be listed first ...   

I'm going to switch some stuff around now - apologies if things look a bit weird for the next half hour or so.

cheers,
Evan.