We would love to have all you Weegies in the Edinburgh Local. You can get Devolution when someone is persuaded to become an editor of a Glasgow site, but until then there is room for all. A consortium is a very good idea, some people are good at organising booze-ups social gatherings, others at getting listings online, others at Facebook and Twitter stuff, so they could share the workload.
Please, please, post on the Ed Local forums as well as these. You can keep the same username if you want, so that people who already know you will recognise you and chat, or you can take a second one. I have two, and I can assure you that if I move from one forum to the other, it is pretty difficult to remember what my name is supposed to be.