We're getting new member registrations so fast and furious now, they seem to be a daily occurrence. As much as we try to review every new member registration to ensure the metroarea is reflective of the region, and to see with interest where the member is from, the new member registration from the UAE just seemed to slip under the radar.

That makes 4 countries in what we call the Africa region: Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Israel, and South Africa.

We discovered this 'extra country' when we were filling out our annual UNESCO international organization registration form update. After doing a country count from our database reports, there were 33 countries, not 32!

Then we had a new member from the United States but he wanted to select his region as Puerto Rico which is a commonwealth of the US. How to classify that region with respect to other regions is another challenge: should Puerto Rico be part of the Florida Region or the South East US Region?

Now more than ever, the pressure is on for us at the GLRF Team to deliver on the goods, by developing content and tools that our community will find interesting. We are looking at using Drupal or Joomla to remake the GLRF Athlete community pages so that all members can create and post articles, and so you can see who's online in each community.