All Renderosity Members, I wanted to take a minute to give you a summary of recent events on the site from EdgeNet's perspective. 1. Effective, Sept 16, the admin privileges for Jack and Ed were removed. As a direct result of their statements and actions, they were no longer able to fulfill their obligations under their operating agreement with EdgeNet. This is unfortunate because in our opinion, they did a good job managing the site and growing membership. More details on the reasons behind this in a minute, but first, a few pieces of information. 2. It was originally our intent to work with any admins that wanted to stay on so we left all other Moderator's in place. The number of deleted posts, including my own to the members and moderators proved that this plan was not workable, so early today, all Moderator status was eliminated. It is EdgeNet's intent that NOBODY will be banned from the community because of the current disagreement. We would prefer a public discussion of the issues. No EdgeNet staff will ever delete a post unless it violates the community's stated posting policy. In the interim, we will continue to run the site in this mode. 3. New approach: We believe that having a team of admins that manage the site on an ongoing basis will be better for the community than past arrangements. We would like for this team to be democratically elected by the community members to represent their interests instead of having a single person manage. We believe this will lead to long term stability and a focus on serving the needs of community members. Elected leaders will have moderator type privileges in the community. If you are interested in participating in this process, send me your contact info to tchoate@edgenet.com. We want to make it clear that we have no preconceptions as to who this team might include (possibly even Jack, Ed, or PFO members). EdgeNet will work with the community to achieve these goals over the coming days. 4. There have been several points related to the Renderosity Store that we wanted to address. EdgeNet will be assuming day-to-day responsiblity for the store as of yesterday. EdgeNet has always collected the money & forwarded it to Jack for distribution. Technically, we will have to continue that process thru yesterday. After that date, it will be EdgeNet's responsibility to distribute the money to artists and handle new product posting. We will be contacting all artists that have pieces in the Store soon to gather the necessary contact info. There will be NO change to the terms for artists. I will be your contact for now. Feel free to email me any further questions (tchoate@edgenet.com). 5. Lastly, we would like to address Jack's account of the Zygote deal. EdgeNet has operated this site at a loss for the last 1.5 years. In the last few months the Online Store has begun to produce some revenues. 50% of these revenues went to support the artists and 70% of the remainder went to DSI with EdgeNet receiving 30% of the remainder. EdgeNet worked with Zygote to structure a deal under which EdgeNet would receive a fair purchase price and Jack would receive annual payments that would exceed EdgeNet's amount considerably plus incentives. In the end, Jack wanted more and EdgeNet and Zygote were unable to complete the transaction. EdgeNet had no choice but to continue operating the site in conjunction with DSI under the operating agreement until it expired on Nov. 4. Our preparation for handling the site after that date lead Jack to make public statements that compromised his ability to effectively manage the site on EdgeNet's behalf. Again, we think Jack and his team have done a good job with the community and the supportive remarks we see from members confirm this view. We regret the confusion this situation may have caused for members. We look forward to building a strong management team and working with each of you to create an all inclusive environment for the 3D Graphics community. Regards, Tim Choate