Re: Cat23's Very Own Site

In case you don't have a judge built in already, Manus Hand has an excellent one written in Python - and he provides the code to anyone who wants it. (He used to, anyway).

Cheers,
Deepak




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Babcock 
  To: [email protected] ; [email protected] 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [CAT23-Ngame] Cat23's Very Own Site



  > Here's what I'm seeing so far, just to pull it all
  > together and keep participants on both lists on the
  > same page (I hope I'm not stepping on anybody's toes
  > here):

  A wise king once said, "Don't muzzle the ox while its
  treading the grain." I wasn't aware that Cat23 had any
  leadership, which I took to mean that they were doing
  a good job. :-D 

  > - Adam Kuehn has graciously volunteered to pay the
  > fees for our site.
  > - It seems "cat23.org" is the popular choice for our
  > domain name.

  There's a good chance of cat23.org email addresses
  being available as forwarders and/or webmail.

  > - "Cat23 Diplomacy" is a great suggestion for page
  > titles, in order to generate hits on web searches
  > (thanks, Luis.)
  > - Scott Fort has given us some valuable history,
  > filled in by David Cohen and Scott "Packrat"
  > Troemel.
  > - David Cohen has volunteered to give us an
  > "official"
  > history write-up for the new site.

  I have over 400 email addresses. I'm sure David has at
  least 3 of them. 

  > - David Cohen has ad hoc volunteered Ray Setzer,
  > Peter
  > Richardson, and a few other long-standing pillars of
  > our community to assist in the details of our
  > history
  > write-up. Thanks, David. ;)
  > - Chris Babcock is working on an upgraded number
  > generator, which is wonderful. He has some questions
  > about who should be notified when a new game number
  > is
  > generated, which I think we should all address.
  > - Chris Babcock has also suggested a game queue
  > system, which I personally agree with
  > wholeheartedly.
  > It should make filling games a bit quicker and show
  > potential GMs where the interest lies, as he pointed
  > out. My only concern is that we should give people
  > the
  > option of removing themselves from the queue if they
  > decide they've been waiting too long, something else
  > came up, etc.

  That's already written into the code. I didn't mention
  it because nobody seems to ever use it unless they
  immediately realized that they chose the wrong queue.
  Historically, what are the most common variants played
  on Cat23? Many gunboat, postal or broadcast only
  games? 

  > - Chris Babcock (that saint) has also volunteered to
  > serve the website, so that we have one
  > constantly-involved host who will ensure the website
  > doesn't stray from it's intended purpose. I think we
  > should have at least two assistants, who would have
  > full administrative access to everything, just in
  > case
  > Chris is unavailable or decides he hates Diplomacy
  > or web hosting (or both) someday.

  Hosting is easy. It's development that eats my stomach
  lining. I'm not proposing anything for the Cat23 site
  that I'm not implementing elsewhere. I'm certainly not
  writing much new code. The queue system is already in
  use on DipPouch. I'll be implementing it for Vermont
  Group so I might as well leverage my efforts. It's
  pure laziness, so thorough that it passes for
  enterprise. 

  > - Dave Watson has volunteered his HTML expertise for
  > development of the site. I'm sure he'd be happy to
  > hear suggestions/comments/critiques at any time.

  Good HTML is two parts - content and layout -
  preferably kept as far apart as possible. 

  > - Stephen Worthy has set up a Facebook application
  > for
  > Cat23. If anyone's interested in checking it out,
  > I'm
  > sure he can give you the address.
  > - I have set up a MySpace Cat23 group, located at
  > http://groups.myspace.com/Cat23Diplomacy. It's
  > nothing
  > special yet, but I'm hoping more people will join
  > soon, and we can get suggestions for topics and
  > such.
  > - I have also set up a yahoo address,
  > [email protected], just in case. If anybody
  > cares to use this address in connection to the
  > website, Facebook or MySpace, I'd be happy to share
  > privileges to the account or hand it off, whatever
  > is
  > required.
  > 
  > If I'm missing anything, or anybody can think of
  > something to add, I'm sure we'll all be happy to
  > hear
  > it. As I said at the top, I hope I'm not stepping on
  > anyone's toes here, I just wanted to pull all of our
  > main points together in one email.
  > I have also been saving all the emails from both
  > the
  > NGame and DipKnight threads in a folder on this
  > Yahoo
  > account, so that we have a little history of the
  > build-up to our new home. I don't know if that
  > interests anybody, or if anyone else has done the
  > same, but they're here nonetheless.

  Good thinking. Was the facebook URL in there? I don't
  remember seeing it on the Cat list. 

  Chris 

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