The Girl Scouts are once again asking me to do a booth at their annual troop roundup. I have done this a number of times to help educate them on our hobby and as a GS Gold Award recipient, I am happy to give back to this wonderful organization. However, I can't reach them all, more and more troops and packs are trying it out without much information, and frankly I am getting tired (of boxes being mistreated and of spending hours at these events and having it not seem to amount to much). I would like to do more of a train-the-trainer approach, but even that will never be available to everyone.

I have materials for leaders that others have helped me to compile and that many have asked me for, but emailing it to leaders is not very efficient, either.

As a web designer myself, I am thinking of putting these materials on a dedicated website that is easily found that could house resources and also have links to this discussion board. I have already done www.gatewayletterboxers.org, but I would target this one specifically for the keywords "scouts" and "letterboxing". Since I can host it myself, I only need to register the domain.

My question is: Is there already any sort of centrally located resource already out there (besides AQ, which unfortunately many scout leaders are not discovering)? I don't want to reinvent the wheel, nor do I have any need to "own" the information, so if I do it, I will post the URL here for you all to check out before it goes live.

Thanks for your input!

A quick Google search showed that there is not currently a website in existence that hits the top of the list like I am thinking of. So I am revising my question to whether or not there is already a project like this in the works and whether you think it would be helpful. There are some neat pages about it already out there that I would like to at least link to and perhaps vice versa. But one that I found had a picture of a letterbox in a Gladware container... the typical scout box that doesn't survive through the winter. I just hate for all those kids to be disappointed when their box does not fare well.

Maybe Choi would add pages to LbNA?

He might, I will get in touch with him. But I'm specifically thinking of a separate domain that is optimized for "scouts" and "letterboxing" so that it will come up at/near the top of search results. Then I'll link to whatever resources are on AQ and LBNA (like this board). I already secured the domain, letterboxingwithscouts.info, so I think I'll go ahead with it. I was just asked today to train GS leaders next March, but only some of them will be in my class, so this will be perfect to have information available for those who can't attend.