Hi all, I have been contributing to the board for a while and I was wondering if it would be possible to have a section for local people to post and talk about things localy. It could be simple to organize Just have a heading called hometown with sub folders for each state. People from that state could post questions specific to that area. You know things like best places to buy flour, local events, meet and greets, bread exchanges etc. Im sure there are a number of people on here from Nevada (where I am) and I would live to get to know them better and pick ther brains about baking in the high desert.
Thanks,
Erik
We don't all live in the States; there are a lot of Canadians here, not to mention other countries around the world. Should there be a folder for every region?
Each country could figure out how to do their own. Canada is so large, it would have to have several, I would think.
The US wouldn't need each state represented, just regions.
It's an interesting idea and would be fun to know where people are from. That way, we could appreciate the unique perspective of each person.
By the way, I'm in Michigan and I don't think of Canadians as being foreigners, just neighbors!
Mary
Canada and any other country could have their own forum as well. The purpose of this forum would be to have an easy way for people from a geographic area to identify one another to ask local questions. Like for me I have been looking for a supplier of unbleached, unbromated, spring patent flour in Las Vegas, NV for a year. A forum like this would be good for asking for local assistance as well as announcing sales, friendly bakeries etc...
Erik
Hi Erik i notice that you dont have YOUR information in your own profile, i often check peoples profile for their location, as some problems and advice can be spcific. i have been lucky to find 2 west australians through TFL and had a very enjoyable evening baking with one of them, and like to meet others too. I enjoy the Global aspect of TFL,and have been able to share the common interest of bread baking with other bakers even when we haven't shared a common language.
Regards Yozza from AUS
I didnt even know there was a place to update all that untill I dug around a little....its all updated now though.
Erik
Eric, you can set up your own Nevada bakers forum on Yahoo and just insert a link to it in your TFL signature line so that folks from Nevada interested in such a regional forum could easily join and participate.
That way personal discussions about local issues and events, etc. would not take up space and bandwidth at the TFL site.
BTW, the Bread Bakers Guild of America has a very active forum at Yahoo, so the Yahoo setup would work very well for you, too.
But that would kind of go against the purpose of having one centralized location where people could go to get local information. People are already coming here and looking at the forums so why send them someplace else to get information? As far as space and bandwidth issues; additional forum categories take up very little space and bandwidth requirements would only increase if the new forum categories resulted in a dramatic increase in traffic to the site. Simply having people who are already on the site look at another page will not increase bandwith requirements. (I happen to be a former IT Infrastructure Engineer and Project Manager.)
Erik
I think this is a great idea.
Craigslist's lists of major cities would be a perfect, albeit, large list of cities to use.
For the United States, for example:
SF Bay Area
Abilene
Akron / Canton
Albany
Albany, GA
Albuquerque
Altoona-Johnstown
Amarillo
Ames, IA
Anchorage / Mat-Su
Ann Arbor
Annapolis
Appleton-Oshkosh-FDL
Asheville
Ashtabula
Athens, GA
Athens, OH
Atlanta
Auburn
Augusta
Austin
Bakersfield
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Battle Creek
Beaumont / Port Arthur
Bellingham
Bemidji
Bend
Billings
Binghamton
Birmingham, AL
Bismarck
Bloomington, IN
Bloomington-Normal
Boise
Boone
Boston - Includes Merrimack Valley, Metro West, North Shore, South Shore
Boulder
Bowling Green
Bozeman
Brainerd
Brownsville
Brunswick, GA
Buffalo
Butte
Cape Cod / Islands
Catskills
Cedar Rapids
Central NJ
Central Louisiana
Central Michigan
Champaign Urbana
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Charlotte
Charlottesville
Chattanooga
Chautauqua
Chicago
Chico
Chillicothe
Cincinnati, OH
Clarksville, TN
Cleveland
Clovis / Portales
College Station
Colorado Springs
Columbia / Jeff City
Columbia, SC
Columbus
Columbus, GA
Cookeville
Corpus Christi
Corvallis/Albany
Cumberland Valley
Dallas / Fort Worth
Danville
Dayton / Springfield
Daytona Beach
Decatur, IL
Deep East Texas
Del Rio / Eagle Pass
Delaware
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit Metro
Dothan, AL
Dubuque
Duluth / Superior
East Idaho
East Oregon
Eastern CO
Eastern CT
Eastern NC
Eastern Kentucky
Eastern Panhandle
Eastern Shore
Eau Claire
El Paso
Elko
Elmira-Corning
Erie, PA
Eugene
Evansville
Fairbanks
Fargo / Moorhead
Farmington, NM
Fayetteville
Fayetteville, AR
Finger Lakes
Flagstaff / Sedona
Flint
Florence / Muscle Shoals
Florence, SC
Florida Keys
Fort Collins / North CO
Fort Dodge
Fort Smith, AR
Fort Wayne
Frederick
Fredericksburg
Fresno / Madera
Ft Myers / SW Florida
Gadsden-Anniston
Gainesville
Galveston
Glens Falls
Gold Country
Grand Forks
Grand Island
Grand Rapids
Great Falls
Green Bay
Greensboro
Greenville / Upstate
Gulfport / Biloxi
Hampton Roads
Hanford-Corcoran
Harrisburg
Harrisonburg
Hartford
Hattiesburg
Hawaii
Heartland Florida
Helena
Hickory / Lenoir
High Rockies
Hilton Head
Holland
Houma
Houston
Hudson Valley
Humboldt County
Huntington-Ashland
Huntsville / Decatur
Imperial County
Indianapolis
Inland Empire - Riverside And San Bernardino Counties
Iowa City
Ithaca
Jackson, MI
Jackson, MS
Jackson, TN
Jacksonville
Jacksonville, NC
Janesville
Jersey Shore
Jonesboro
Joplin
Kalamazoo
Kalispell
Kansas City, MO
Kenai Peninsula
Kennewick-Pasco-Richland
Kenosha-Racine
Killeen / Temple / Ft Hood
Kirksville
Klamath Falls
Knoxville
Kokomo
La Crosse
La Salle Co
Lafayette
Lafayette / West Lafayette
Lake Charles
Lake Of The Ozarks
Lakeland
Lancaster, PA
Lansing
Laredo
Las Cruces
Las Vegas
Lawrence
Lawton
Lehigh Valley
Lewiston / Clarkston
Lexington, KY
Lima / Findlay
Lincoln
Little Rock
Logan
Long Island
Los Angeles
Louisville
Lubbock
Lynchburg
Macon / Warner Robins
Madison
Maine
Manhattan, KS
Mankato
Mansfield
Mason City
Mattoon-Charleston
Mcallen / Edinburg
Meadville
Medford-Ashland
Memphis, TN
Mendocino County
Merced
Meridian
Milwaukee
Minneapolis / St Paul
Missoula
Mobile
Modesto
Mohave County
Monroe
Monroe, LA
Montana (Old)
Monterey Bay
Montgomery
Morgantown
Moses Lake
Muncie / Anderson
Muskegon
Myrtle Beach
Nashville
New Hampshire
New Haven
New Orleans
New River Valley - Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Radford, Etc
New York City
North Central FL
North Dakota
North Jersey
North Mississippi
North Platte
Northeast SD
Northern WI
Northern Michigan
Northern Panhandle
Northwest CT
Northwest GA
Northwest KS
Northwest OK
Ocala
Odessa / Midland
Ogden-Clearfield
Okaloosa / Walton
Oklahoma City
Olympic Peninsula
Omaha / Council Bluffs
Oneonta
Orange County
Oregon Coast
Orlando
Outer Banks
Owensboro
Palm Springs, CA
Panama City, FL
Parkersburg-Marietta
Pensacola
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pierre / Central SD
Pittsburgh
Plattsburgh-Adirondacks
Poconos
Port Huron
Portland, OR
Potsdam-Canton-Massena
Prescott
Provo / Orem
Pueblo
Pullman / Moscow
Quad Cities, IA/IL
Raleigh / Durham / CH
Rapid City / West SD
Reading
Redding
Reno / Tahoe
Rhode Island
Richmond
Richmond, IN
Roanoke
Rochester, MN
Rochester, NY
Rockford
Roseburg
Roswell / Carlsbad
Sacramento
Saginaw-Midland-Baycity
Salem, OR
Salina
Salt Lake City
San Angelo
San Antonio
San Diego
San Luis Obispo
San Marcos
Sandusky
Santa Barbara
Santa Fe / Taos
Santa Maria
Sarasota-Bradenton
Savannah / Hinesville
Scottsbluff / Panhandle
Scranton / Wilkes-Barre
Seattle-Tacoma
Sheboygan, WI
Show Low
Shreveport
Sierra Vista
Sioux City, IA
Sioux Falls / SE SD
Siskiyou County
Skagit / Island / SJI
South Bend / Michiana
South Coast - Southern Bristol And Plymouth Counties
South Dakota
South Florida - Includes Separate Sections For Miami/Dade, Broward, And Palm Beach Counties
South Jersey
Southeast IA
Southeast KS
Southeast Alaska
Southeast Missouri
Southern WV
Southern Illinois
Southern Maryland
Southwest KS
Southwest MN
Southwest MS
Southwest TX
Southwest VA
Southwest Michigan
Space Coast
Spokane / Coeur D'alene
Springfield, IL
Springfield, MO
St Augustine
St Cloud
St George
St Joseph
St Louis, MO
State College
Statesboro
Stillwater
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Susanville
Syracuse
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Tampa Bay Area
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Texarkana
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The Thumb
Toledo
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Tri-Cities, TN
Tucson
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Tuscarawas Co
Twin Falls
Twin Tiers NY/PA
Tyler / East TX
Upper Peninsula
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Victoria, TX
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Watertown
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West Virginia (Old)
Western IL
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Wichita
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Williamsport
Wilmington, NC
Winchester
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Worcester / Central MA
Wyoming
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York, PA
Youngstown
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Zanesville / Cambridge