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There were two sessions during the User Forum in February where the group were asked to contribute ideas, which we did. I thought it would be interesting to open these out to a wider group, i.e. you lot This was one of the sessions in which CRT were looking for thoughts and ideas around the provision of short term moorings. So, here we go: There are two questions because we were split into two sets of groups. and So, anyone got anything to contribute to these please? Richard

The agenda for the National User Forum is: I shall be attending on behalf of the forum as I did for the September 12th meeting Richard

The second subject that was handled as group discussions was the new Sharing towpaths strategies. There is a document which I have put up on my website here: http://www.primrose-engineering.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sharing-Towpaths.pdf and two sets of questions. This is the first set that we were given as group work: The second set may have been in the presentation: So, as with the short term mooring thread, I'm looking for ideas and contributions from anyone. Personally, I'd like to hear from anyone involved with or living with the 'Share the Space' campaign. I had the briefest experience of this with the new signs and speed bumps near City Road basin Richard

When I am representing CWDF at the National Users Forum this month, I would like to be able to say roughly how many members we are This isn't actually very easy. For instance: We have around 450 members on-line at any one time, each day, at peak times (8till10pm) We generate around 550 new posts per day on the forum. We have on average 6-8 new members join the site per day. We have a total of just over 1,1 million posts We have 15,888 registered members. All good stuff, except the last figure. That figure is the number registered account, created since we moved to the new software ten years ago, and that to register you must provide and valid email address. However, I know includes every account; - active accounts, passive accounts, spam accounts, duplicate accounts, locked accounts, banned accounts, Willi GoFarr, James T Berk and Nobber, people who had one question, asked it and went away, people who only read the forum, but want to get emailed notifications, etc. So, it isn't necessarily a fair reflection of the number of actual real, active members Another way of looking at this: We have registered members, of which; 7964 have made one or more posts 4080 have made 5 or more posts 2963 have made 10 or more posts 948 have made 100 or more posts 2613 have registered in the last year 2708 have posted in the last year 4473 have logged-in in the last year If you take the website stats, currently the monthly figures give: Unique visitors 90,153 Number of visits 188,235 Pages 2,488,573 Hits 12,682,340 Not all members log in to read the site. Not all members post, many just read without registering. My feeling is that we have about 5000 active members, I would be comfortable saying that. What does anyone else think? If you go to the members tab and click 'more search options' you can generate and play with the above statistics Richard p.s. Thanks to Daniel for these figures