# Steering Committee - Welcome! **URL:** \ **Category:** Sandbox\ **Created:** [August 15, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/steering-committee-welcome/97 "2023-08-15T08:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/steering-committee-welcome/97/1 "2023-08-15T08:32:30Z")
I’ve written this specifically to welcome our Steering Committee members (and I love that a forum invite can land on a specific topic 👍) - so welcome indeed! 🎉 Right now, the forum is private while we do final testing, so you won’t be able to invite new people yet. We’re aware that a forum is of limited use without it being available to the whole community, so this phase won’t last long. We’ve talked before about how to structure the forum, and I hope what you’ll find is what you expect. If you haven’t already seen the voting process video (see below) I made, that could be worth looking at. I’d also check out the #forum-tips tag for some more detail and ideas. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/859ec91207c4826bf116aa18b61cba3ec51c96ea.jpeg "Steering Comittee - Discourse Voting Demo") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBZrF9Rcm8k) The #Sandbox category (right here) has pretty much _all_ the plugins enabled - events, topic voting, solved issues, etc - so please try things out, and we’ll clean it up before we go live. You’ll also get the standard Discourse walkthrough from @discobot too, it’s worth trying out. I’ve set you all to Trust Level 2 (see [this post](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/) for an explanation of trust levels). The SC also has a Group which be tagged using @ (like this [@SteeringCommittee](https://forum.ansible.com/groups/steeringcommittee)), and that comes with a message inbox - you can use this for private SC communication. Just be aware that us admins can read the messages (but only if we go looking - it’s like being the admin of a mailserver). The group is configured so that the rest of the forum can see it and @-mention it, but not send private messages to it (only members and staff can do that). Please try it out! Any questions, please post in #Forum Guide & Feedback or #Sandbox (I should notice, but you can tag me for extra effect), or PM me directly if you wish. I’ll be **quite** responsive for the next few weeks, I think 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/steering-committee-welcome/97/3 "2023-08-15T15:26:33Z")
Hello world! (This is extra text to get this above the 20 character minimum.) ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/steering-committee-welcome/97/4 "2023-08-15T15:32:06Z")
I **knew** someone would say that 😃. It only happens when people are testing, because the rest of the time you have more than 20 characters of things to say 😃 (and there’s always the ❤ button if you just want to add a +1 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/steering-committee-welcome/97/5 "2023-08-15T19:58:27Z")
A long enough hello to the world to definitely bust the 20 characters limit 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/steering-committee-welcome/97/6 "2023-08-15T20:11:54Z")
> [@gwmngilfen](#): > > I **knew** someone would say that OK, **2** people… honestly, some people… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![russoz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/russoz/32/127_2.png) [@russoz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/russoz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/steering-committee-welcome/97/7 "2023-08-20T06:38:58Z")
I wonder if people will ever become mature enough to stop sending silly examples of how to bust the 20 chars limit. 🤔