CAPTalk's 10th Anniversary

That's right, ladies and gentlemen. CAPTalk has been providing a discussion platform and professional forum for Civil Air Patrol members for just over a decade now.


In early 2005, Jerry and I realized that Civil Air Patrol members had no national-scope platform to discuss all matters related to CAP. CAPBoard had closed down and the original "CAP-talk" listserv (no affiliation) was long gone. We created CAPTalk.net with the intent to create a professional learning community that could serve as a resource to new cadets and senior members as well as more seasoned members. The concept was simple: people in other parts of Civil Air Patrol undoubtedly have had the same questions, solved the same issues, developed better ways of doing probably everything, and had brilliant time-saving/money-saving/more-effective ideas.


We've grown from a site with only a handful of personal contacts to a community with more than 6,200 registered users who've contributed more than 360,000 posts in more than 17,000 topics which have garnered 63.1M page views. A pretty substantial body of knowledge and discussion (even if a solid slice of that pie is probably about uniforms  ).


As I have in the past, I'd like to thank everyone who contributes to CAPTalk in constructive ways. I'd like to thank the moderating team whose tireless efforts in reading every one of those posts have helped to keep the forum clean, constructive, on topic, and above board: MIKE (Mike Johnston), CAPSGT (Michael Crockett), dcpacemaker (Daniel Pace), and JC004 (James Colgan). But thank you also to each of you who contributes through participation. CAPTalk doesn't become the resource we intended it to be (a role in which we hope the site continues to grow) without your active contribution: posing questions, sharing ideas, debating, and contributing your knowledge and skill set to other members and units.


Ten years is a long time for a website to run (especially on essentially the same software and set-up), but we don't see any signs that the site has outrun its usefulness or is finding itself obsolete in the face of different technologies. Nonetheless, in the coming decade I hope CAPTalk does evolve and continue to improve itself as a community and resource to CAP members everywhere.


Thank you for your participation and thank you for ten awesome years. Here's to 2025!

Been a member for roughly 8 years...crazy.


Date Registered: 07-02-200, 22:26:31 Local Time: 17-02-2015, 13:54:26

Thanks for providing us a place to play rant and sometimes actually help some one.

Thank you for helping me wear out multiple F5 keys!

Thank you for helping me wear out multiple F5 keys!

And a few android screens?

Thank you for helping me wear out multiple F5 keys!

And a few android screens?

At least...

Thank you for helping me wear out multiple F5 keys!

And a few android screens?

At least...

Probably a Palm or to as well.

Thank you for helping me wear out multiple F5 keys!

I think you're talking about more than just the f5 key. I'm sure you mean multiple keyboards

Thank you for helping me wear out multiple F5 keys!

I think you're talking about more than just the f5 key. I'm sure you mean multiple keyboards

Certainly, but since Eclipse has a few years or so of "online" time here, a lot of it is probably page refreshes. 


Edit: not quote that much:
Total Time Spent Online:294 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes.

Good grief. No wonder..

Date Registered: 31 July 2007, 19:48:09
Total Time Spent Online: 73 days, 2 hours and 25 minutes.

.. there's no time left in the day. Between that and CAP projects. ;-)

You must idle a lot more than me. About same vintage, close post count...

Total Time Spent Online:49 days, 13 hours and 0 minutes.

Total Time Spent Online: 160 days, 19 hours and 33 minutes.
Total Posts: 8,585 posts

Kind of funny. Sunday was 10 years on CAPTalk. 15-02-2005


Total Time Spent Online: 94 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes.
Total Posts: 3,784 posts

Hmmm.

Total Time Spent Online:    70 days, 1 minutes.
Total Posts:    1,661 posts

Although I do a lot more reading and a lot less posting.

Joined 25 Jul 2006

Total Time Spent Online:               31 days, 12 hours and 4 minutes.
Total Posts (including this one):       1,268 posts

I'm just a piker compared to some of you!

Jack

Interesting.

I look at the stats and my most popular hour is 0400. CAP Talk and bacon, what a way to start the day.   

Interesting.

I look at the stats and my most popular hour is 0400. CAP Talk and bacon, what a way to start the day.   

That's 0400 Eastern Time, adjust for your timezone as required.

Mazel Tov!

Here's to the next 10!

Thank you for being here for all of us

That is so cool! It's good to have someone to talk to about issues that are going on in the civil air patrol....

That's half way to retirement.

Thanks for a great forum!