most forums, including this one, make all submitted posts publicly available with no membership needed. we will be in a better position if we allow only team members to read the forum posts. since we will be in a competition, it will be to our advantage to keep any random person on the internet from seeing our team's information, especially regarding technologies we are using, sponsorship info, possibly copyright documents, etc. so we should continue to allow sign ups but allow viewing access to approved members only.
there is info on how to set this up here:
http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=1176495regards,