As of this very moment, there are 72 members of our "little" catering group. Wow! I mean, it all started with me, Ann and Becky trying to get through the holiday catering jobs. Now we've got members all over the world, including quite a few in New Orleans, Australia and places I'm pretty sure I couldn't locate on a map.

Leapfrogging membership numbers are great, but they also make for problems of scale. For one thing, as we get bigger and more international, we're dealing with time zones that are very far apart. We've been doing a lot using the Facebook chat feature. How does that work for those of you in Australia? 

How do we even keep up to date with the new members who have joined?

And summer is coming up  - at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere - and vacations, ballgames, and needing to share the computer with the kids all will take some of us away from the online world for days, weeks or months. We'll need to figure out how to deal with that too. 

So help us out! What do you think is working really well with the way we get things done? What's not working at all? What problems have you started to run into as we get bigger, or is everything working great so far! If you've been part of a similar group, either at work or for leisure, what problems do you think we should expect? 

Please note that we are making one addition to our guidelines. (It's a simple one.) If you invite a friend into the group, please help them navigate for the first one or two catering jobs they do with us! It can get pretty confusing to figure out when to serve your gift box items, when to stop cooking, how to manage your asks, and so on. Help your newbies learn what we expect. Oh, and before you add someone, make sure he or she is comfortable cooking at least, say, five days a week and returning gift requests at least that often, if at all possible. Thanks.

Here's a few of my ideas about how we could use this blog:

• Talk about problems that are arising in the group or in Cafe World gameplay.
• Talk about changes Zynga has made.
  
• Answer questions about why we do things the way we do them.
• Examine some of the weird/only-half-way-working things in Cafe World.
• Advance info, like "There are rumors that next week Cafe World will introduce microwave cooking."
  
• Conversations about missing features and what we wish CW would introduce, like the ability to remove yourself from catering jobs or an alphabetical list of dishes.
• Goofy stuff, like "If you could design a catering job for CW, what would it be and what would you serve?"
• Guest posts from group members to introduce themselves. 

Would you read a blog? What would you want to see in it? Let us know in the comments section or bring it up for discussion in the group at Facebook.