JT feel free to promote the sci community however you see fit, but keep in mind that I myself don't plan to do any interviewing of guests or whatnot, so if your inviting people here then you'd better have a plan of whatever it is your planning. So keep that in mind.
As for acquiring new members, my first step is simply to capatalise on all of the keywords that we used that led us to mega-tokyo... Sierra, adventure game, programming. My main focus has been to make a website that the search engines can't ignore when it comes to Sierra Adventure Games. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to watch a chat between our members and Roberta, but the site isn't in any real condition to impress anyone.
Essentially here is where I plan to focus the community development for now.
- Sierra, sci studio, adventure game programming geared content of the mainsite to get the search engines attention.
- Finding and asking for link replacement in regards to website owners who can be contacted.
- New look and layout, besides ol blue (which is nice for us MT vets) something a little more graphicly interesting to get the search users attention when they visit because of our space quest 3 listing, and then notice the showcase games, and realise holy shit, this is a place where I can learn to make games just like this one.
I don't like to think more than three major steps ahead, it gets too disheartening. So likewise a man to man campaign to promote sci community falls below my top three. Maybe with the new site designed I would be more eager to jump on board, but as it is, the website is visually unappealing and I wouldn't show up to a job interview without putting on a clean shirt and shaving so likewise I wouldn't promote it yet to people who I would want to impress (like Roberta). Google's easier in that it's just looking at our words and screenshots.
If anyone would like to help on any of my top three, by all means. find mega tokyo links and ask the site owners who have contact information to replace their link to Mega-Tokyo which has closed with our new sci community link to replace. Or, if anyone would like to submit original game breakdowns for the sierra games, I've just been copying from wiki but original content is better. Even if anybody has any ideas for a consistent site layout theme that both the website and forum can populate nicely post some sketches.
If you want to run off and bring in special people then by all means feel free, but that is not where my focus is. Roberta would get us visitors for a few days, google will provide a steady stream indefinately.