Jun 29, 2010

New Rhodesian Forum Newsletter # 2010 July

Dear Ouens,

Our Site, the New Rhodesian Forum became six months old. What started as a splinter blog for a Rhodesian thread at another forum became a very successful and resourceful Site of its own.


Membership News

These last weeks seen an influx of some new and very active Members - who contributed many original photos, documents and recollections for the NRF.

In light of Their contribution and support for the NRF the following Members were promoted onto the "rank" of Hardcore Members: new daddy, rabapone, Kerry M, bader, cassius, mrf2, Simon, mcoleman762 and neil0841. We thank Them for sharing Their precious time with Us!

Spamming seems to be the most numerous offence on the NRF - China and India-based users ijkl970, gongfan45, hijk381, jklm443, bills01 and JAHJEHOVAH009 tried to sell us wedding gowns and fake Nike shoes all the time. These users were deleted right away.


New Moderator

NRF proudly announces Her new US Moderator, new daddy. Ever since the foundation of Our Site, one of the prime concerns were the lack of a US timezone MOD. With the arrival of a willing and able Moderator, new daddy this issue seems to be corrected. We wish Him a joyful reign ;)


Encyclopaedia Rhodesiana

We started the most ambitious project of the New Rhodesian Forum so far - creating the Encyclopaedia Rhodesia. The goal is to create a free and most possibly complete knowledge base related to Rhodesia - Her History, Culture, People, etc. Right now the project is in an embryonic form - it has a wiki (a similar system to the well-known WikiPedia) installed and a very basic framework created. If You feel that You would like to contribute to the cause of upkeeping Rhodesia's Heritage - and You are willing to help Us to refine the Encyclopaedia Rhodesiana - please send one of the MODs a PM or email!

You can check out the Encyclopaedia Rhodesiana here: http://www.newrhodesian.net/encyclopaedia/


YouTube NRF Channel Novelties:

Our Hardcore Member, bader sent Us a film reel for publishing on the NRF YouTube channel. He had it on an old tape - He did all the converting and digitizing by local experts - so We MUST thank Him a lot for this!

Here's the link:

http://www.newrhodesian.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=594&p=8322#p8322