Community talk ⇒ Moderators needed

[Sven]

With more than 4.300 messages 15 months and since today exactly 1.600 members, LaTeX Community has become a quite active community. At the moment everything (server, backups, moderation, etc.) is maintained by me and I really love it.

The problem is, that I do not have time each day (from time to time even not once in a week), to go through the posts and move them to other forums when necessary. But exactly that is important, to keep the quality of LaTeX Community.

This is why I am now looking for people who want to volunteer for moderators.

What are the tasks of moderators?

• Check messages -- when possible -- on a daily basis
• Remove junk messages
• Delete double posted topics
• Move topics placed in the wrong forum to the correct one

What are the requirements for moderators?

• You should be common with some bulletin boards like this one, to have a sense for the structure and communication of such communities
• You should be able to communicate gently with other people via e-mail, to not scare them, just because they have posted to the wrong forum
• In the optimal case you already have experiences in moderating bulletin boards -- in the best case you have this experience even for phpBB (the software used for LaTeX Community).

If you are interested in, please send me a private message and I will contact you.

I am looking forward to your messages

Sven