Re: Cat23's Very Own Site

Luis <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:45:57 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.cat23.new-games
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks, White Wolf: my headache has vanished with your help. This 
summary is a lot better than any aspirine. :-)

And it seems we are headed for a nice renewing. If I can be of any help 
specfic help, just ask: I have disponibility but not clear what can I do.

Regards,
Luis.

The White Wolf wrote:

> Okay folks,
> 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):
>
> - Adam Kuehn has graciously volunteered to pay the
> fees for our site.
> - It seems "cat23.org" is the popular choice for our
> domain name.
> - "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.
> - 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.
> - 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.
> - 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.
> - 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. 
> <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] <mailto:Cat23Diplomacy%40yahoo.com>, 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.
>
> The White Wolf
>
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