Well, looks like "my online team" is clearly the best supported IF the support is measured solely by website.

It only has 11 members with 5 being British and the team captain being Canadian.

There is an added benefit to being on the team America (USA). It increases the conversational intrigue when you tell people about this project and that you are the leading contributer to the USA team efforts. You will also be able to say that your efforts directly increased the research of this team to push past that of France and Canada.

Oh Crap - give us a break. Website? Fuzzies?
How much ego stroking do you want????? It's getting a little pathetic.

Go be a team by yourself again. Now we know why you were a team of 1 for soooo long.....its really "you".....

Jeezus, hj... bitter much? This team crap is all in good fun, after all. The numbers go to the project whether or not I'm a member of ANY team.

For the record, I was a team of one because there clearly weren't a lot of people on this project from the burning man project, otherwise I would have had more than the one member join up.

A sense of community is a NICE thing. MyOnlineTeam, as an example, is doing a bangup job of providing warm fuzzies and a sense of community among it's members by way of it's website, since the WCG doesn't really offer much in the way inter-team communication capability at this point. Forgive me for hoping for something similar in a larger team.

If you are representing the rest of your team, it appears I made the right choice avoiding your team. Although based on the pleasant nature of most canadians I have met, I'll give the rest of your team and country the benefit of the doubt and assume you are just an anomalous jerk... or someone having a really bad day who owes me an apology.

And this changes anything how, exactly? I still made the correct decision, regardless of when I came to it.

Well, it's clear you are an expert on my personal situation now, isn't it? For the record, several of the machines ARE my personal machines, and I DO pay for the electricity of those, when they are not being use at work. So you are a bit off the mark there. And yes, I actually did obtain permission to put the company's machines to use for the project.

See above re electricity. As for posting, well, you could if you want, but it seems you are happy with the team you are on. I wasn't, since the community I had formed a team to represent is poorly represented on this project. So I was looking for a little more interaction, and I thought it might be fun to find out what the most interesting, dynamic team was for me to join, rather than being content to sit back and watch the numbers add up, or install the software and forget it. You appear offended by this. Phffffft I say, back to you.

Yes. Interaction is not the same as stroking. This post started out fun and light... in one fell swoop, you managed to turn it mean and nasty. Congratulations, you must feel great about your success.

*I* think so. Graham, too, seems to think your post something was less than polite. You, and possibly others, may disagree. I'll live either way.

I think we're both in agreement on that point, actually... in more ways than one. Nonetheless, the point that Graham made a post or two back seems to quite valid, and your earlier claims of "politeness" seems a little silly in light of these last few posts. Had you not gone our of your way to stress your claims of politeness, as an ambassador to your team, only to veer off sharply later in the same thread, I would not have mentioned it.

That was *almost* like an apology. I, too, am sorry if you took something I said personally. From my side, I can promise that there has been nothing but goodwill intended for these posts. And I note that I have only made a couple posts to this 40+ post thread... the posts of others are quite beyond my control.

Shall we let bygones be bygones?

w00t! Common sense prevails again in this wacky world we live in! Truly a pleasant change of pace from everyday life. :-) Canada re-earns it's rep.

As a minor point of clarification on my part, yes, while these forums certainly provide real interaction, they are not dedicated to intra-team communications, which would provide bonding and communication among teammates. Real, dynamic, intra-team interaction is what I meant to refer to in my earlier post, and is what I am/was hoping to find in a team. Again, I uphold MyOnlineTeam as an example of doing it right. I was hoping to find a bigger team that could work along those lines. For now, I will go without it while helping the America (USA) team gain in the ranks a bit, but I'd still like to find a group that offers that sort of interaction, eventually, unless the planned website NoMad mentioned comes about.

These forums are great for project-wide interaction, but don't really foster intra-team interaction quite as well... there are no team-specific places to hang out and chat for now, so one almost wonders why there are teams at all if there isn't much differentiation. A team-specific website can offer all of that and more, however, so I count that as a big plus. Otherwise, as I mentioned, it would make less sense to consider this to be a participatory project than an install-and-forget (except for the pretty(ish?) screensaver) thing.

Peace out.