Gisli
07-16-2008, 01:45 PM
I just wanted to let people know that there could be some big changes in the works regarding our setup here.
First, Slaight has agreed to work with Isak to develop a website for us. What we have presently is this forum setup, but nothing beyond that. A website would provide to us a better mechanism for doing other things that forums don't handle well, such as organizing information like links to game-related resources.
Second, Isak is in the process of dealing with license renewals for the site, and evaluating whether he wants to make a change in the forums software that he is using.
So it looks like there could be some big changes coming, and a chance for a really neat site here. Further, there are opportunities here for some good community involvement. There are several ways that people could get involved.
1) Given that we want to expand our site from just a forum to a more complete website, a small team of people could help us get more work done. If there are one or two other people who would like to help Slaight and Isak with this, let us know.
2) We need suggestions and feedback from people about what you would want to see in a website. What features and resources do we want to have? As a start, take a look at what Slaight had set up initially, http://warpercival.guildlaunch.com/. There are tools and features there that we might want to adopt, and others that don't add much beyond what you can do with a forum. We need to sort this out, and get some other ideas.
3) There are going to be some license and software costs to keep the site running, even if we do nothing more than what we have now. A little bit by way of donations would be welcome. Contact Isak if you are willing and able.
First, Slaight has agreed to work with Isak to develop a website for us. What we have presently is this forum setup, but nothing beyond that. A website would provide to us a better mechanism for doing other things that forums don't handle well, such as organizing information like links to game-related resources.
Second, Isak is in the process of dealing with license renewals for the site, and evaluating whether he wants to make a change in the forums software that he is using.
So it looks like there could be some big changes coming, and a chance for a really neat site here. Further, there are opportunities here for some good community involvement. There are several ways that people could get involved.
1) Given that we want to expand our site from just a forum to a more complete website, a small team of people could help us get more work done. If there are one or two other people who would like to help Slaight and Isak with this, let us know.
2) We need suggestions and feedback from people about what you would want to see in a website. What features and resources do we want to have? As a start, take a look at what Slaight had set up initially, http://warpercival.guildlaunch.com/. There are tools and features there that we might want to adopt, and others that don't add much beyond what you can do with a forum. We need to sort this out, and get some other ideas.
3) There are going to be some license and software costs to keep the site running, even if we do nothing more than what we have now. A little bit by way of donations would be welcome. Contact Isak if you are willing and able.