New Member - Architorturer | Welcome Center | Forum

Welcome aboard!  It is great to have you here, seeing the immense dedication you have made to this cause.

You'll have to excuse us for the fact that CSTART is currently a little bit, let's say intimidating, or overwhelming, for newcomers just now.  We are still trying to make the difficult transition from a fairly small, informal and disorganised group who operate in an ad hoc fashion to a more organised community with proper procedures etc. for getting work done.  Right now in order to really see what work we have done requires you to dive into forums and essentially lead yourself around, but we hope to change this soon.  We have people working on significant website restructurings right now, so hopefully things will be a bit more user friendly soon.

For now, perhaps the most useful thing you can do is to poke around the forums and Wiki at your leisure and, most importantly, ask questions in the forums every time you have them, on anything.  There are several of us who monitor the forum RSS feed and so see each and every new post: someone will always be happy to answer your questions.  Traditionally we have a very low retention rate for newcomers, which is something none of the regulars want, so we will go out of our way to make newcomers feel welcome and help them fit in.  I hope you have fun looking around.