After creating a first instance of CraterAlumni.com using CivicSpace 0.8.2 (based on Drupal), I moved that instance aside and started over with CS 0.8.3.  For those of you not familiar with CivicSpace or Drupal, Drupal is an open source content management systems, sometimes also referred to as opensource CMS. 

Open source means that all of the technology behind this thing is freely available to anyone daring (or gullible) enough to try it out.  In this case, this website fits into a category somtimes called "LAMP", which means that it runs on Lynux operating system, using the Apache webserver, MySQL database server and PHP website code. 

I picked this system over others because not only does it have a very broad base of developers to support it and website administrators using it, but it is the same system that power the Howard Dean 2004 Presidential campaign, which seemed to really blow open the doors to using the Internet as a competitive necessity for broad marketing and (political) action campaigns.  Subsequent to the presidential elections, some remaining funds were channeled into creating Civic Space Labs (civicspacelabs.org), a non-profit group that continues excellent working build the "Political Action" editon of the Drupal platform.