Goodtheatre.org's goal is to facilitate connections in the entertainment industry. We primarily serve the technical and design end of the live theatre industry. Our philosophy:

• Keep it simple: No flashy animations, no blinking banner ads.
• Invite only: The only way to get access to the site is to know someone who is already on. The hope is that this will keep spammers from harvesting your contact info. So far, it seems to be working. The elitist hope is that this will also create a first-pass filter, trying to let only people somebody likes to work with on the site.
• While we make it easy to list job postings, we really want to flip the hiring process the other way around. Instead of blindly listing a job, listing a job both notifies appropriate people that there is a job they may be interested in, and notifies the person who is listing the job of the people apropriate to their position. You can also just search for people based on their level of experience.

The current experience rating system assigns you a score in a particular job. Jobs are things like Master Electrician, Deck Carpenter, Sound Designer. This score is based on how experienced you feel you are at that job, how many years you have done that job, and how much of your work during those years was a particular job. We feel this most accurately reflects the range of skills represented on this site, since gt.o members span from college students to veterans.