[Eric Bareiss]

I have seen a lot of threads that begin "I need help with..." and I have seen a lot of people that are willingly offering help on any given subject. If there are this many people openly looking for help and willing to give help, maybe someone shold do some mediating.

Starting a thread on chiefdelphi may get the job done, but it is nice to have one person who has extensive experience about your particular subject to help you with your problem from start to finish.

Here's a thought, Why not compile a list of people that are looking for someone to help and make it available to anyone that may need some help.

Break the list into categories such as: motors, animation, inventor, drive trains, etc. Under each category would be a list of the people who are most qualified to help you and also willing to help you, and how to best reach them, email, instant messanger, phone.

Obviously I'm not trying to discourage posting questions on chiefdelphi, but this would help you to get a fast, thorough answer to your problem, and it would also help to eliminate incorrect or unnecessary answers.

I will admit that I am not good at spearheading things, and I don't have much spare time lately, so if someone else wants to take charge of this that would be nice, if not I will do it.

Also, please don't start posting that you want to be put on the list yet, that should be done through email, to avoid having too many unnecessary responses.