I was holding back from posting in this thread initially because I felt my presence might be counterproductive.  That doesn't seem to be the case, though, so, here I am.  Hi.

For what it's worth, I don't have a problem with many of the suggestions in here in principle.  We'll have to work out the details but I generally agree with a lot of what's been said.  Having two competing websites isn't doing either site any favours.  I'd much rather have a unified Society to make better use of all of our efforts.

While theflatearthsociety.org's forums seem to be running reasonably smoothly now, we've obviously had plenty of issues (both technical and non-technical) in the past and it would have been useful to distribute power more broadly so that when these issues did arise and I wasn't able to deal with them, other people could have.  The tfes.org crew is clearly capable of keeping a forum running smoothly.  I'd be happy to concede a considerable amount of power on the forums in the interest of reunification.  I'd also be very happy to have other members of the community contributing to the front page in the form of articles, blog posts, etc.

I also appreciate the fact that most of you seem to have a genuine interest in furthering the spread of Flat Earth Theory through non-forums projects.  I love the idea of an annotated Earth Not A Globe being made available to the public.  Coincidentally, I registered earthnotaglobe.com several years ago and you're more than welcome to use that domain to host and/or promote the project if you want.

It's late here now and most of tomorrow will be spent traveling home.  I'll check in again when I'm settled back in HK.  I'm sure we'll be able to hammer out something that's acceptable for both sides.