New MANN Admins to Replace Scott

It has come time for me to announce that soon I will no longer be administering Mensactivism.org on a day-to-day basis as I have since the site was started. We have taken on some new people who will be working with some of the older co-admins to keep this site running smoothly and in the spirit that it was created. This is a decision I have not made lightly and I think will improve the quality of this site as a resource to men's activists. Read on for more explanation...Mensactivism.org has been running for almost three years, and I have found administering the site to be a very rewarding experience. The time commitment it takes to keep it going is significant, and it has always been worth the effort. However, for several months now I've found it very difficult to maintain all of my time commitments, and far too many worthy news stories haven't been posted out of neglect simply because I've been too overwhelmed with things.

Much of this had to do with a very challenging (and also rewarding) semester I had at UNH this past fall. I am in my final year at UNH and the upcoming semester will be my last in the Computer Science program. My academics have pushed me to many new limits, and I'm finding that I enjoy the work immensely. However, due to the intense time requirements these classes have, I found myself in way over my head last semester, to the point that I was making a lot of compromises with my personal health and relationships. I've decided that I can't do this to myself again. My final semester is going to be even more challenging than the last, and in this depressed tech economy, I am going to have to put even more resources into finding a job for when I graduate.

Now, there's no way I could stop being active in men's issues - it means so much to me that I could not be complete without being a men's activist. However, I've decided that in order to maintain my physical and mental health for the next six months, I will have to focus on local men's issues activism at the expense of some of the wider scale things I've been doing, such as running Mensactivism.org. One of the things I intend to do is make a final attempt to get a seat on the NH Commission on the Status of Men, for which I now have support from several key people.

I also didn't want to consider shutting down Mensactivism.org. Such a vibrant community of activists have kept this site going, and I wanted to see what could be done to allow this community to sustain itself. Thus we have taken on four new administrators who will work with the three we currently have, to edit and post user submissions to the site. I'm confident that this new team has the resources to keep the spirit of the site going strong, and to maintain Mensactivism.org as a useful resource for men's activists in a wide variety of issues.

I'd like to thank Adam, Thomas, and Brad for helping me keep this site going for so long. Nightmist will not be forgotten for his enormous contributions to this site as well. And now I'd like to welcome Steve, Tom, tparker, and Dan as new admins. I'll be helping them get up to speed on things over the next couple of weeks and will be acting as an advisor when needed by the beginning of February. Some of the info pages in the "Navigation" section of the site will be updated to reflect the new status of things over the next week, and e-mails to admin@mensactivism.org will be forwarded to the mailing list of MANN admins so they can keep track of e-mail submissions and such.

Mensactivism.org is really run by all of its readers, the admins just keep a consistent image and "smooth out the edges" editorially. I'm confident that this site will only improve because of these changes. Thanks for sticking with us through all this!

- Scott Garman

scott@mensactivism.org

(who started this site as an "experiment" to learn apache and mysql) :)

NOTICE: This story was migrated from the old software that used to run Mensactivism.org. Unfortunately, user comments did not get included in the migration. However, you may view a copy of the original story, with comments, at the following link:

http://news.mensactivism.org/articles/03/01/16/1726219.shtml