A target date of September 1st has been selected to upgrade the current Cogmos Member-only Forum to allow guest accounts and public-facing areas. Guests will be able to view and post to all areas except those restricted to COG members. Those without an account can view all posts except areas restricted to COG members. This will enable COG to have a fully-integrated system and provide complete service to members and non members alike. The intention is to provide more up-to-date information to the general public, while providing better services to members such that they feel they get good value for their membership fee. This effort expands upon the theme elsewhere on cog-online to offer both an area for the public to "check us out" and added benefits for COG members. After spending some time on the forum we hope that guests will join as new members after seeing and feeling the great commoradarie we have in COG. We will also be