Username
Team Status

NAME:   Real Name
LOCATION:   City/State/Country
WEBSITE:   Personal Website URL
OCCUPATION:   Job Title
STATUS:   Relationship Status
HOBBIES:   List Hobbies
INTERESTS:   List Interests

CONTACT INFO:   E-mail or Popup Box

The rest of the page is for a text profile containing as little or much information as you wish. The above fields are not all mandatory. You can use as many or as few as you wish, or provide your own. We are aware that many people are concerned about identity theft and being added to secret lists of people to spy on by government anti-terrorist agencies. We're flexible on what information you are comfortable with providing. Username (the one you use on the forums) and Team Status (we'll fill that one out) are the only fields that are mandatory. We would greatly appreciate the Location information.

We believe that the MEMBERS section of the site will go a long way to making members and prospective members feel comfortable with the people they share a common interest with. We like the family atomosphere of a smaller team, and want to do whatever we can to preserve that. Too much anonymous, secret agent stuff doesn't really help that, any. If it makes anyone feel better, I plaster my real name, home address phone numbers and all manner of personal information all over the web. I keep hoping somebody will steal my identity and fix my credit problems, but no such luck. All of that information is pretty much public record and can be gotten from much more reliable sources than a distributed computing team's website. However, I'm certainly not going to ask anyone to provide any more information than they are comfortable with putting on the site.

Registered users of our discussion forums who like to hang out and chat, may be ranked as Honored Guests on the board, regardless of what (if any) team they crunch for. We'd love to have such folks listed here, as well, with that rank as their Team Status. We all have a common interest... distributed computing. That transcends all the team nonsense. Yeah, I like the friendly team rivalry and competition stuff, too. But that's not what we're all about. I'm proud of our little team, but I'm not jealous of the other ones out there. If we grow as a team, it will be because we have something unique to offer. So, if you think you'd like to hang out on the forums, then do that. You'll be treated with respect like everyone else, here. And if your team's members think that makes you a traitor, well... maybe you're on the wrong team.