Rebecca,
That's very kind of you. Susan (below) sent me an email suggesting she would be too. Baltimore could really become a happening site.

Maybe you could give me some sense of how you would like to help and I could come up with a way of doing it.

Just to give you an idea of the options:

1. Promotion of Any Kind
Getting covered in local blogs, weeklies, dailies, gets a lot of people to come (whether they stay depends on why they came and what is there)...

- There are kinds of fun things about the site (in full swing) that media may be interested in. e.g. Question of The Day is a popular one for blogger/participant experts.

Also social media, blogging about the site, etc. There are no doubt many very creative ways we have not even thought of or tried.

2. Experts (and perhaps events)
Finding great local people who are experts helps with great answers and promotion (they blog, post on fb, twitter, etc.)

We can till run scheduled events, but they are quite a bit of effort and coordination compared to the alternatives. The others are completely flexible in terms of amount of time and specific schedules.

3. Recruit/Encourage Core Membership to Ensure Answers
This is what made Seattle successful.

4. Moderation and Administration

These things are minimal. It basically involves monitoring the content/users and deleting contributions (suspending users) when their stuff is either offensive or purely self-serving marketing. We tend to try and avoid even a semblance of censorship.

Thanks for your interest. You can email me at charles at (I have to put some words here to fend of spam) questionland.com or just answer here.

Charles, I would be interested in volunteering...

But I'm biased... lol

I meant this for the new year brunch question.:)

This would be my recommendation as well, actually making a mint infused simple syrup is easy, and then you can use it on/in other things as well.