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Yes, changes are in the offing for the FFSC. Next month’s issue of Duff will be the last in an almost 30 year history. Starting with The Federation Flyer, morphing into Ascus and then Duff, the Fungus Federation has long communicated by newsletter. And it was always a process of change: typewritten postcards gave way to double-sided sheets, which then evolved to a printed newsletter with the advent of desktop publishing.
Technology moved us a few steps further to a full-color digital downloaded Duff. We’ve really been in the avant-garde of change for an organization of our size and nature.
Now our evolutionary process comes to the point where our information remains the same, for a while anyway, but delivery improves: in an effort to improve access to information in the club, we will be launching a new FFSC website starting in the Fall 2013 mushroom season. The new site will contain the same information you now look to the Duff for: calendar, upcoming speakers and events, photos and articles by members, as well as general myco-news, all posted on an ongoing basis rather than
once a month.
But it also gets better. The new site will contain a great deal more than the newsletter and old site combined. Video archives of past speakers and events, an ongoing member photo contest, Mushroom of the Month articles, recipe archives, downloadable calendar, field reports and a cultivation page are in the works. It promises to be a dynamic site.
We’ve heard concerns about all this great intel being available on the web to all, member and non-member alike. No worries on that point, folks! Privileged information will be contained in the Members section of the website, providing value to those who have paid to be part of the club and support its continued operation. The world will not be reading our field reports. And please know that this process wasn’t meant to be opaque
or mysterious — these things just take time and the work isn’t complete yet.
Many thanks to Yev Nyden for all his hard work in making this happen! We anticipate unveiling the new version of the FFSC website in September, and will notify everyone by email and via the Google Group. We hope it helps keep the “fun” in fungi for all of us!
Debbie Johnson, Minister of Propaganda
FFSC Web Team
