I defined the idea of a ‘Man Respect Index’ on the MensActivism Wiki because I think it has global application. It also means there’s a much larger talent pool to appeal to for help.

To this end, I’ve already made postings referring to the Wiki, so any further postings here will be missed by other interested parties.

Could you please update the Wiki regarding your management ideas, and provide links to your group there.

Thanks for coming on board.

I have created a new group so that we can discuss these ideas and get some project up and running here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fatherlessNZ/

Fathers Day is a good date for needing musicians. We were thinking of doing something out west on that day in the community.

That’s a terrific offer. I had thought the technical side would be the toughest - any suggestions on what development software to use? (are you familiar with open-source?).

Benjamin, your offer is really appreciated.
At this stage, money isn’t an issue. I was hoping it wouldn’t need to be. The most pressing demand is to find someone who would be willing to host the site (www.manrespect.com?) for free.

Then install the development software and the means for volunteers to access it over the net, and we’re nearly there.

The key thing though is that we don’t go to a lot of work, only to find no-one visits the site, and consequently no-one takes any notice of it. It needs profile. Someone out there in the marketing/promotional world may have some good ideas here, or maybe some simple common sense suggestions could be equally useful.

I’ve posted the project on the MensActivism Wiki, so pass this link to anyone you think may be interested:
http://wiki.mensactivism.org/index.php/Man_Respect_Index%28MRI%29

http://wiki.mensactivism.org/index.php/Man_Respect_Index%28MRI%29

I live off $40 a week after rent, child support and electricity: as paid by the government, as requested by me, funded to challenge the injustice for as long as I possibly can. If, to get your initiative working you need financial backing I will pledge $10 to support you activating Dave’s skills. My first initiative against the injustice was to attempt to compile men’s stories in book form, which I titled Parting Clouds. Dave did the website for me and worked efficiently to the projects needs. It was me who found it difficult to provide to the extreme demands of the project and not anyone else. Fortunately for teh project it was completed by Jim Bailey compiling stories and having them filed on his website. He too was involved in this initial group - so the initiative was realised. I imagine Dave’s story is up there and hope so, because if there is a story to tell of judicial devaluation by negligence of the masculine necessities for a son or daughter or a child to love, it can be capitalised from Dave’s tale.

Visitors to the site can nominate any company, newspaper columnist, TV show, News program and readers, politician, personality.

Initially all nominations would have a Man-Respect Index of 5. A ‘thumbs up/down’ image would appear against each nominee, and visitors could click thumbs up for approval, or thumbs down for bad men-dissers. The Man Respect Index would vary accordingly.

These are just ideas. At this stage, I’m trawling for other ideas and suggestions about where a server host could be found, what existing software could be used, what features could be added to the web-site, how it could be promoted so that it gets noticed.

Anything ventured is welcome, and I don’t intend to rope anyone into this.

New cost of printing is:

16 cents per booklet @ 4 cents a side for photocopying

Total cost of booklets is $320.
We have just saved $240.00 from another MRA