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# Continue updating activities
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# Check missions database rating & reviewing systems - and reporting, too
 
# get in touch with Snap about hosting, servers, resetting payment info, bank accts
 
# get in touch with Snap about hosting, servers, resetting payment info, bank accts
 
# finish thoroughly quickname script.  Done (w/o testing): promotions;  todo: name changes, direct rank edits, new profile creations, more?
 
# finish thoroughly quickname script.  Done (w/o testing): promotions;  todo: name changes, direct rank edits, new profile creations, more?

Revision as of 15:13, 27 March 2010

Projects: (upd 27 March 2010)

  1. Continue updating activities
  2. Check missions database rating & reviewing systems - and reporting, too
  3. get in touch with Snap about hosting, servers, resetting payment info, bank accts
  4. finish thoroughly quickname script. Done (w/o testing): promotions; todo: name changes, direct rank edits, new profile creations, more?
  5. http://www.rebelsquadrons.org/donations - get donations link more prominent
  6. ABG cache at blastfire.net
  7. update IO website
  8. blast wants a RS irc server
  9. Inspect Damon's BP changes
  10. fix RS gallery "not active"
  11. Bar and Grill policy, RS Bar and Grill articles
  12. Try Talyn's game
  13. Fix the tour listing (especially all the active RC missions :P)
  14. RC's missions (by 25 October?)
  15. Update donations records (Giz, me, ..)
  16. Heavy's email archive tools idea
  17. try yet again to fix MrBot reconnection issues
  18. Make RS 204X?
  19. something is able to inject sql into the Medals table
  20. update medalpriority order.
  21. the option to switch to a non-fly-out bar (if people want this)
  22. fix left nav bar issue on short pages for all designs (as with #4)
  23. the logged-out version, which still isn't fly-out. (VA Licah Fox)
  24. Finish the new ITOD reporter (need to figure out files/attachments storage, parameters, and so on.)
  25. respond to the Settlers of Catan guy
  26. revisit PBF end of tour medals stuff - see if Spokes emailed about this - it might be too long ago now to worry about
  27. Find out what's up with ShadowDude
  28. BP: Write script that recalculates all past earned points (actives AND inactives?) and notes new ribbons to be earned.
  29. get in touch with Himm
  30. write new blog post?
  31. finally write bio for Licah?
  32. create IC/OOC image templates for wiki and apply templates to sample wiki article
  33. Check out melee edit profile problem (See doc "melee-psa")
  34. check if anything from doc "root cancellation" needs work
  35. RS World Project - coding. I seem to start these type of things and never finish them
  36. keep grabbing flagged emails and dealing with them


Old Crap

Current projects:

  • ITOD revamp
  • VSG merits calculator

(both "unnecessary" but facilitate ease of use)

  • News site: "Save as draft" doesn't work properly

Hours logged

In an effort to keep track of my RS work, I'm going to begin logging hours. We may work for the RS in our spare time, and for free, but for me it's important to compare this with my actual RL work. This will also help me to: 1) quantify how the RS can best fit into RL; 2) discover where I could be more efficient with my time; and 3) determine if I'm able to take on any additional responsibilities.

I'd like to assign hours as follows, according to my positions:

  • Internet Office projects (IO): 5 hr/wk
  • FireClaw CO (PBF): 2 hr/wk
  • RnK 2 (VSG): 1 hr/wk
  • Site admin: 1 hr/wk
  • Fantasy League (FL): 1 hr/wk
  • Misc (advising, observing, other): 2 hr/wk

for a total of 12 hrs/wk.

I suspect this is actually rather less than I have been doing in the past few weeks, so I want to really quantify things. I may end up changing the hours assignments. I'll start the counter after I finish this post.

This will also serve as my latest incarnation of a to-do list, as I can prepare days ahead of time with possible tasks.

Tu 11/11: |0:10 - Misc: preparing schedule|  |0:20 - Misc: email, chat|  |0:05 - FL|  
We 11/12: |1:05 - IO: integrated mission reporter|  |0:10 - FL|  |0:30 - Misc: email, chat|
Th 11/13: |2:40 - IO: integrated mission reporter|  |0:25 - FL|  |0:10 - Misc: email, chat|
Fr 11/14:   (IO: squadron news)
Sa 11/15:   (IO: right nav bar reordering)  (IO: Beginner's Path)  (IO: Beginner's Path cont.)  (PBF check-in with Spokes, Castor)
WEEKLY TOTAL

Su 11/16:   (IO: VSG merits calculator)
Mo 11/17:   (IO: Skills system for XvTed academy)
Tu 11/18:   (PBF: fly mission when released)
We 11/19:   (PBF: create newsletter template)
Th 11/20:   (PBF: update squadron news)
Fr 11/21:   (VSG: earn merits)
Sa 11/22:   (PBF: follow up end-of-tour medals, website, COs list)
WEEKLY TOTAL

Su 11/23:
Mo 11/24:
Tu 11/25:
We 11/26:
Th 11/27:
Fr 11/28:
Sa 11/29:
WEEKLY TOTAL

Su 11/30:
Mo 12/01:
Tu 12/02:
We 12/03:
Th 12/04:
Fr 12/05:
Sa 12/06:
WEEKLY TOTAL

Su 12/07:
Mo 12/08:
Tu 12/09:
We 12/10:
Th 12/11:
Fr 12/12:
Sa 12/13:
WEEKLY TOTAL


Below this line: archived material.


  1. User:Licah Fox/main site nav bars redesign
  2. User:Licah Fox/home page modules
  3. User:Licah Fox/book material

Best draws...

  1. EaW clan - http://www.empireatwar.net/community/clans/index.htm, http://eaw.heavengames.com/clans/

Other draws...

  1. SWG club - best advertised in-game; a few places possible to advertise- http://www.gamerdna.com/groups/recruitment/Star-Wars-Galaxies/Starsider/ http://www.swgalaxies.net/guilds/index.php3?server=Starsider%20(US%20East) - http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Action/Space_Combat/Star_Wars_Games/Star_Wars_Galaxies/Player_Associations/Starsider/ - but these seem old and unused. Guild is self-sufficient in-game.
  2. RS ITOD immersive experience - but almost no one would go out looking for this; it's only after joining one realizes its power
  3. Console/pc gaming? What can we do? The only real way to make this viable is to get a significant number of people playing with the (RS) tag and thus get our name out. We'll need some kind of lure for them - SWG uses in-game rewards. We don't have financial resources to offer rewards that would require money; our only immediate offer can be other members' skills. And we don't yet have that underlying structure.
  4. Star Wars club type stuff - competitions, merits, courses, etc. - but these are things to keep people, not draw them.

(ABG does not want advertising.)

In conclusion:

The nature of the RS is such that we do not focus on anything for which people go out and look, generally, but rather an out-of-game experience centered on community and in-character roleplaying. Therefore, we need to focus on "hooking" people (which Beginner's Path does pretty well) and providing them with reasons to stay beyond whatever reason that brought them here.

Rough sketch of proposed trajectory of new members:

  1. (CDT-2LT) Joins - is put on Beginner's Path - learns to navigate
  2. (2LT-MAJ) First activity possibilities - earning points for courses, missions, competitions, communication is more than good enough
  3. (CPT-CMDR) Responsibility asked - upper academy courses, assist in an executive office, squadron or wing CS, forums discussion input
  4. (CMDR-COL) Fairly accustomed to responsibility - squadron/wing CS, well versed in history/activities of at least one unit, in charge of some aspect of executive work (e.g. tacops, one game of missions database, one area of competitions)
  5. (COL-GEN) High responsibility - instrumental to the operation of a unit, executive office task, or equivalent, and has demonstrated at least good leadership and responsibility.
  6. (GEN-FA) Club service - work has positively affected multiple units or areas of the RS over a period of time.

Calendar

  • Fr 27 June - main site nav bars: css
  • Sa 28 June - private messages fix & upgrade
  • Su 29 June - begin working on book material (table of contents; begin research)
  • Mo 30 June - book: get some ideas onto screen
  • Tu 1 July - Remus explosion day - work postponed
  • We 2 July - MrBot work (make fully automatic + other changes)
  • Th 3 July - MrBot work (continue to expand functionality)
  • Fr 4 July - Planning (moved from 1 July)

just write.

  • Sa 5 July - Nav bars: prepare entire right nav bar (incl. drop-down for online people)
  • Su 6 July - Nav bars: Test on a variety of browsers, resolutions, validations, and make live!
  • Mo 7 July - Book (busy week, no coding?)
  • Tu 8 July - Book
  • We 9 July - Book
  • Th 10 July - Book
  • Fr 11 July - Book
  • Sa 12 July - Book
  • Su 13 July - MrBot?
  • Mo 14 July - MrBot: finish bot-managing to-do list
  • Tu 15 July - Chat: Do pending website additions and changes
  • We 16 July - book....

Overall plans to be completed in July:

  1. "Complete" MrBot
  2. New navigation bars on RS site
  3. Rough draft of book

Thereafter:

  1. RS-wide merits concept (at least enough to begin coding)
  2. RS-wide merits code
  3. RS Ladder (like LIC but broader, for all games)
  4. Website and bot support for ICTE or ORW type system
  5. Missions Database: ground rules and a few missions/levels for each applicable game
  6. Academy code
  7. Academy: set up at least the few core courses
  8. always IO work to be done
  • (first day of every month?) evaluate recent work, assess immediate and future goals, determine next courses of action

TBA

  • book: much research
  • create home page module support
  • update the multiplayer information page
  • create a TeamSpeak page
  • investigate creation of a Competitions hub
  • update the X-Wing information website to reflect current status
  • customized 404 page
  • redo help page (topics not needed; point to appropriate venues)
  • redo "about the website"
  • potential new home page modules

MrBot online: 2007.08.04 -- 2008.02.07 (then 4 months offline) 2008.06.07 -- present