I'm reposting this with insertions of the definitive additions by Warrior. Please read it again in it's entirety. Thanks.....ojai22
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NEW BSG MOTTO
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
The above motto was a Henry Ford quote. He also said, "I'll belt the Earth with dependable motor cars!" Using the formula within that quote, that's exactly what he did. That's how we know it can work for us.
COMING TOGETHER IS A BEGINNING
The webmaster at bsg.com has an idea to unite all BSG sites that are interested in a continuation, however large or small those sites may be.
http://www.battlestargalactica.com is inviting all owners and webmasters to be a part of a massive movement of unification so we may achieve the desired end of influencing TPTB to make a continuation movie using as much of the original cast as possible. If your site is small, without a chatroom, you'll have access to the chatroom and forums at bsg.com. If you already have a chatroom you'll still be able to meet others here. You'll have your own Forum and will be able to move freely from your site to battlestargalactica.com. We're uniting all sites friendly to a continuation; that includes artist's sites, fanfic and actor's sites as well.
We often refer to ourselves as the RagTag Fleet. We've been on our own journey for a number of years trying to bring back The Show With Great Possibilies. There's been much sporadic activity, even more discussion and a lot of frustration regarding what to do to achieve that end, but never have we been the force that we 'can' be once we have formed a united front.
What the above means:
Many sites are on servers that do not have a database available to the site owners, or the site has ads that tend to turn people away, etc. This means that many sites have no forums, even though they would like to. Our goal is to provide a solution for those sites so MORE traffic may be driven to your site.
BSG.com will have a forum set up where interested sites can link directly into their sub-forum for their site, thus when a visitor clicks your Forum link at your site, it links them into your subforum here at BSG.com. Each site owner/webmaster will be the "moderator" of their own subforum. Whatever is discussed in their forum is up to them.
The chat room set up works a little bit differently. If a site wants a chat room, they'd link into the main chat room here, BUT use the pull down menu to access their sites chat room. Thus, any participating web site can have scheduled chats for their sites visitors, and by having said chats in their own room, they'd be able to have them whenever they want without worrying about another chat session taking up the main chat room.
Thus, coming together like this is the begining.
KEEPING TOGETHER IS PROGRESS
Now that we've become united as one large world-wide assemblage we should turn our attention to positive efforts within the group to stay on course. This is a "must" if part three is to be accomplished. In the group that we have become in this unification, there should be many ideas offered on how best to maintain our band of Warriors and ways to communicate with each other instantly. Not the least is the forming of new friendships with fans that we may one day meet at a Con or a Movie Premiere. In this part of the Motto the positive should be emphasized. Simply put, that means there are others who will want to see a movie a bit differently from what you want. That's okay. We can't actually dictate to Glen Larson exactly what he should do regarding content - where he takes the story. We all want a continuation with some of the original cast; on that we can agree. That allows each one to hold to his/her dream of what they hope to see when they go running to the theater to view the new movie. Keeping together as a consolidated group will enable us to move to the next step.
What the above means:
With multi site linked together via the BSG.com provided site forums and chat rooms, fans can cross over site to site rather easily and be able to communicate quickly. If one site has a chat scheduled for it's viewers, then viewers of other sites can see the announcements for said chats either on the BSG.com News page *or* within that sites own forum. With this, fans can stay closer together on the web, and when plans of action are to take place, more people can be reached, rather than just those at your web site. Again, this helps with the growth and promotion of YOUR web site. Cross site promotions can take place, keeping everyone informed and involved through your web sites.
This is a brand new idea that I don't think has ever been tried before, thus it'd be quite the testing period to see if it works or not. The goal is to make YOUR site stronger, and the BSG fandom voice LOUDER by staying united.
WORKING TOGETHER IS SUCCESS
Uniting our efforts to influence TPTB to make a Continuation Movie with the original cast is our goal. We can now have letter campaigns, talk to our local newspapers, send emails, whatever we feel is important or necessary, and we can do it as one body. One movement. All the continuation-friendly fans from bsg sites will have an impact that cannot be ignored. This is our objective.
It may be that such a movie could not have been made before this time because of the problems wracking Universal. Also, Glen Larson may have become more amenable to making a movie at this time because of what the SciFi Channel has done to his baby. Now is the time to focus our attention solely on Mr. Larson and the movie. We will give him our encouragement and support; we will allow him the freedom to make his own choices as to Producers and Writers without bashing those choices. However, if you have a choice of your own, letting him know who you think would be terrific, and why, is your call. Working together means working with all aspects of fandom, the artists, actors, the production team, the studio. One body. One movement. One goal.
What the above means:
With the site leaders/webmasters/owners in some type of direct contact with each other, major planning can go forth: Fan projects, letter campaigns, etc can quickly be planned by you, the leaders of your respective sites, and you can get input/assistance from other sites. This is working together to achieve one goal: Get a Continuation of some sort actually made. No more talking about the possibilities. It's time to bring the talk to reality and actually work together to make something happen.
The Forums breakdown.
As mentioned above, those sites without forums and chat rooms will be given the opportunity to have their own through BSG.com. What isn't said there but is covered here is this: Sites WITH forums already will ALSO be listed there, with direct links to those sites within the BSG.com forums.
Chat rooms are a bit different, but those with chat rooms already can link theirs within the BSG.com forums themselves in the Chat Room forum. BSG.com intends to never duplicate another sites forums, thus the only three you will see here at BSG.com are the ones listing the hosted forums, the one listing the external forum sites and the Chat Room listing forum.
This is where we start: Owners and webmasters please contact Darrell Lawrence,
webmaster@battlestargalactica.com. The site is still undergoing changes but the Unification has begun.
ojai22
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