weazil
Moderator
Hi all
Having read through the various intro's, what I did notice is that there are various members who are involved in IT in one shape or another. It seems probable, therefore, that we could shape our technical future quite well, if we were able to work out who could do what things.
So, I believe we have a problem - we have four 'sites' that together hold how we deal with each other. Those are:
The oldhammer blog - the flagship and general place for announcements
The Player Finder - Skarsnik's google map which places us on a map
The Player Registry - the mechanism for safe communication between players (found on Skarsnik's map) and a way of forming a mailing list of oldhammerers.
This forum, which has already overwhelmed us with its incredible utility.
If we don't think we have a problem, then I suppose we don't have to do anything.
BUT...
My dream would be to have all of these things housed in once place, with things that should be interoperable being interoperable - mainly the map and the means to communicate with each other through that map.
...dare I suggest an actual oldhammer domain? I see that oldhammer.com is taken, but there are other permutations available?
Now Zhu and I have previously discussed a forum, because I asked him permission to use the Oldhammer name when I set up the player registry. In a related incedent, Dreamfish and I were looking at Joomla as a content management system, and I also investigate Wordpress and Buddypress. The actual map will probably require some customisation (probably PHP work, to query MqSQL and Google and create the map),
What hasn't happened, though, is any cohesive effort, because we all have kids, and day jobs, and hobbies.
So, my first question is - what do you think? Could we shape this up a little more? should we?
If so, my second question is - do any of you know anything about technologies and packages that could get us there? Free (or really cheap) wins the day.
Thirdly, if we did formalise this, how would the ownership of the hosting package and the domain work? Does anyone know how something like this could be achieved?
Fourthly - does that joint ownership require some sort of formal of anything - for instance, a games club must have a chairman and a treasurer and some sort of insurance to be a real entity that can charge memberships here in the UK
Fifthly - now that we're talking about money, how would we pay for this? Is it appropriate for us to charge membership? Should we beg Zhu to make a yearly T-shirt, the proceeds of which pay for the site? Get a figure made to do this? Rely on donations?
Maybe its all too much too soon, but I just thought I would put it out there and see if anyone had any suggestions.
I do think it we were a more accessible presence, we could grow a little more. Perhaps the real question is, are we trying to grow? Is our purpose to try and grow oldhammer so that we can find like minded players?
Hmmm...
Anyway, thoughts?
Having read through the various intro's, what I did notice is that there are various members who are involved in IT in one shape or another. It seems probable, therefore, that we could shape our technical future quite well, if we were able to work out who could do what things.
So, I believe we have a problem - we have four 'sites' that together hold how we deal with each other. Those are:
The oldhammer blog - the flagship and general place for announcements
The Player Finder - Skarsnik's google map which places us on a map
The Player Registry - the mechanism for safe communication between players (found on Skarsnik's map) and a way of forming a mailing list of oldhammerers.
This forum, which has already overwhelmed us with its incredible utility.
If we don't think we have a problem, then I suppose we don't have to do anything.
BUT...
My dream would be to have all of these things housed in once place, with things that should be interoperable being interoperable - mainly the map and the means to communicate with each other through that map.
...dare I suggest an actual oldhammer domain? I see that oldhammer.com is taken, but there are other permutations available?
Now Zhu and I have previously discussed a forum, because I asked him permission to use the Oldhammer name when I set up the player registry. In a related incedent, Dreamfish and I were looking at Joomla as a content management system, and I also investigate Wordpress and Buddypress. The actual map will probably require some customisation (probably PHP work, to query MqSQL and Google and create the map),
What hasn't happened, though, is any cohesive effort, because we all have kids, and day jobs, and hobbies.
So, my first question is - what do you think? Could we shape this up a little more? should we?
If so, my second question is - do any of you know anything about technologies and packages that could get us there? Free (or really cheap) wins the day.
Thirdly, if we did formalise this, how would the ownership of the hosting package and the domain work? Does anyone know how something like this could be achieved?
Fourthly - does that joint ownership require some sort of formal of anything - for instance, a games club must have a chairman and a treasurer and some sort of insurance to be a real entity that can charge memberships here in the UK
Fifthly - now that we're talking about money, how would we pay for this? Is it appropriate for us to charge membership? Should we beg Zhu to make a yearly T-shirt, the proceeds of which pay for the site? Get a figure made to do this? Rely on donations?
Maybe its all too much too soon, but I just thought I would put it out there and see if anyone had any suggestions.
I do think it we were a more accessible presence, we could grow a little more. Perhaps the real question is, are we trying to grow? Is our purpose to try and grow oldhammer so that we can find like minded players?
Hmmm...
Anyway, thoughts?
