I'd like to suggest a new section on the Café: Regional Communities. This would give members a way to meet other members who are geographically local. You could start with areas of high concentration (UK, Southern California, NY/NJ, and so on) and expand from there.

Or possibly rather than acutally creating a new level of regions, a clickable map (which would be much easier to maintain, (In my opinion) It could be periodically regenerated and it might have regisional sections, but that would allow folks to see graphically how dense (no pun intended) the population of magi is around them.

BroDavid

We do not have a regional community here. So what can we hope to get out of it ??? Please do not thibk only about USA. Let me remind the Café is an internetional place.

A feature that allows members to search for other members by location would be handy - particularly for new magicians, or those moving to a new area. Mr Bart - I think the international nature of the Café would be enhanced by this. Imagine, I'm on holiday in Turkey (I was two years ago) and want to meet up with fellow performers there...it would've been great if I could have made contact before going.

There is a similar feature on the Home Of Poi website (poi is a manipulation art, often involving fire, from New Zealand) which is useful: http://www.homeofpoi.com Click on the Meet Others section.

Cheers

ML

That's why I mentioned UK as a possibility.

Take a look at this forum for Honda S2000 owners. They have a large selection of regional and national community forums. Members from those areas post there about all sorts of things of local interest.

Because many people don't include their location in their profile, and for those who do the format varies widely, trying to search by location will be frustrating at best; I know, I've tried when I've looked for magicians to handle a gig out of my area. By having a regional forum for, say, the NY/NJ area, members in that area can post or not as they see fit, someone wanting to meet magicians in that area can post a thread to that effect, someone needing a magician in that area can post a request, someone traveling to that area can find out about local events, and so on.

A couple of weeks ago a member posted a request for a magician in Richmond, VA for November 3. It was originally posted under "Let Me Speak To The Manager", then moved to "It's Not Magic, But...", and languished there with no responses. How much better it would have been if there were a forum for, say, the Washington, DC area to which it could have been moved, and where magicians local to Richmond, VA would have seen it.

This is an interesting concept in theory, and something for me to think about for sure.
Thanks for bringing this up, though this is something that I have given thought about in the past.