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Wow! What a first week.

There has been a lot going on in the forum and the site has been getting a good number of hits this week.
There has also been a good chunk of guys who have come over from the Yahoo! Group and there’s still a lot more of you to come over so join ASAP.
 You’ll have noticed a few other things on the forum of particular interest.
The TARDIS in Tayside group have their own sub-forum and I’ve been posting on their threads in Outpost Gallifrey and on the new Gallifrey Base Forum. This generosity has been reciprocated by a front page plug for our site on theirs. Hello to Alan and the gang and they are the first group to get their very own sub forum.  I hope that there will be a few groups residing in their own sub forums over the next few weeks making the forum truly an internet community.
I’ve made the first steps in building links with Highland Who. Hello Liam and the gang and I hope your first meeting goes well next month and sorry I won’t be able to come. I’ve even posted on their forum saying hello.
Clarkie from the Aberdeen Sci Fi Association posted a hello on the forum and he is fortuitously in Glasgow at the next meeting and will be joining us. As a gesture of good faith he’ll be bringing some Merchandise for us to raffle. It might be an idea to bring your pennies as we might raffle some stuff on the night!
Finally the Manx Anorax headed by Mark Owen have also joined the forum and are posting. Already we have a bit of a multi-club forum going on and you never know we’ll be changing the forum’s name next!

All in all it’s been a busy week and with the Reviews and Fan Fiction sections of the site and forum about to rev up there’s a lot more on the way.

Keep posting and keep the momentum going:

Cheers

Barry Stanton
Online Coordinator, Glasgow Who- The Glasgow Doctor Who Society!

And what a week it`s been!

MEMBERSHIP

Over thirty members have been added to the Forum, which is a great. Thank you to all of you for your support and enthusiasm for the site. There are some great threads underway and I`ve put up some polls for you to choose your Favourite story for each of the Doctors. So get voting and keep posting - especially the ten of you who haven`t made your first post yet - come on in, the water`s lovely. And we don`t bite, honest!

On the membership front, there are over 160 users on Outpost Gallifrey who say they are from Scotland and I`ll be contacting them all, inviting them to join us here during the coming week. But numbers aren`t everything of course. In my view, having 50 active members is much better than having 200 members, 150 of whom are lurkers. Which is where you all come in!

DVD

The rest of the month sees Delta and the Bananamen and Planet o` the Deid out on DVD. I`m not in any great hurry to buy either of them to be honest and will probably wait until they`re on Play.com for a fiver!

DWM

The next issue of DWM comes out a week on Thursday - did anybody else forget to send in their Mighty 200 survey, rating every story? I did. By the time I remembered Alan and I were in the pub and by then  it was too late…

NEXT MEETING 

Plans are underway for Something To Do at our next meeting, which is only 3 weeks away today. More details nearer to the time. Clarkie from Aberdeen will be visiting us so please do all you can to make him feel welcome, especially as he`s bringing us a goodie bag! What a nice man! If you`re reading this Clarkie, you should have got my email by now. Looking forward to seeing you and thank you once again.

Ciao For Now,

Bryan McCormack, Meetings Coordinator, Glasgow Who

So this morning I`m checking my emails and catching up with the latest goings-on in the online Whoniverse when I come across THIS:

http://io9.com/5283524/a-funeral-for-a-time-lord

A very touching story and how great of his friends and family to organise something like that, right down to a Tardis-coffin. Nice to know that, even in death, someone can inspire people.

When I go, I`d like to a send-off like that please.

Condolances to Seb`s family and friends.