I know the nature of the coffee house is to make light of things and poke fun, but I feel that it needs to be pointed out that the people who we're working with are either people who reached out directly to us expressing interest in helping, or people we have worked with directly for years and have found to be helpful and committed to both Cakewalk and this community. We had a several week long discussion
here regarding our ideas here and some folks reached out. Simple as that.
Nobody is picking favorites, there's no cast system, there's really not even many differences we have planned other then a reorganization of our sub forums, turning on some features in the software that haven't been on, and some extra people who can help direct others regarding what our goal is with the new additional forums (such as a Feature Request forum and a Problem Reports forum).
If you weren't contacted and are wondering why, the simplest explanation is probably because I don't know who you are, haven't worked with you directly or in a very long time, or you did not reach out to Willy or myself. If you want to fault me for that, by all means, but a better approach might simply be to write me. I have a lot of my plate and don't get to know all the of the personalities on the forum unfortunately.
If people are going to make examples of others, then this thread is going to be locked. This forum isn't around for us to slander other people. None of this is about any particular person, it's about having a helpful community. Having a variety of personalities is totally fine as long as people are willing to work with one another.
There is nothing bad going on here. I'm very surprised at
any negative reactions considering we're all feeling pretty positive about this.
If you're interested in helping the cause you're welcome to reach out to us. Like I said, I don't personally know every person here and who is or isn't helpful or interested in helping. If you're interested in helping, just send a PM to myself or Willy. If you're not interested, that's fine as well, but you're certainly not being excluded. Again, we did have a discussion that went on for several weeks.
I'll be honest, we're not going to be picking people who are more interested in trash talking. Knocking an idea and the people trying to make improvements
before the details have even been shared isn't helpful.
Again, as I've said before, this thread is completely premature and based on some big assumptions. All we are doing here is reorganizing the forums and bringing some people on board, who have expressed interest, with helping us keep content organized and draft some stickies which will result in a better place for everyone. They have all been extremely helpful so far with offering a variety of opinions and input. They are not and will not be super-users with iron fists. We already discussed all of this in the thread I linked above.