@Treebay:
First of all, thank you very much for the list of Portuguese users. I apreciate it! I don't feel so alone now.
But because I felt uncomfortable asking you for this information and giving you the trouble of extracting it (which I guess isn't easily available for the regular member), I though it could be done in an automated way from the members profile information.
I've debated myself over if should propose this to you by PM because you have a lot more relevant information as the board administrator, but it wouldn't make any sense to bother you unless the forum members were interested in such a thing. So I opted for the poll.
My intention here is to start a debate, so I proposed a draft. I don't believe also on publishing phone numbers so that's why I proposed 3 care measures:
1- Members don't need to suply their phone number so it can be NULL (Private) or never even exist. The email adress is good enough.
2- Only
public information from the member profile could be gathered. The key fields here are: Location and USDA Zone.
3- Only forum members would have access to this file/page/database/whatever...
It saves you some trouble, it could (or not, that's why the poll) help none/some/a lot of the users to come together.
@all:
Think about this: with latitude and longitude coordinates is far too easy to locate close members for those people who are wider spread (or at least they think they are!).
I think I recall this hapening on the forum:
"Hey X, I found out I just live within a 2h drive from you. I'll be paying a visit to your nursery this weekend!"
And I'm talking about well known members within one country alone...
Imagine those who live in the same city and feel isolated!
(EDIT) I've also edited the poll introduction text, because I was under the impression that, at the beginning, some people were voting for option 4 but not for 1,2 or 3 which makes little sense.