04-15-2002, 01:43 AM
Guys,
Mahdi, your offer is appreciated..all of the members thank you. Not only does Mahdi put his time into this site, but his class work at school keeps him busy as it is. As it stands now, I submitted a project outline to a group of freelance programmers. What I will do is pay for the basic project, then if I see alot of good things happen, and there is some good buzz around about what we are doing, who knows what else I will implement. But at least we are going to do something that has never been done before! It is going to be interesting to say the least. Just be ready to start entering those award numbers..
What I might do is place banners on this and only this part of the website, just to help generate traffic. All of the members will have to do their part to get anyone with a serial numbered soviet award to enter their information. More participation equals more results and vice versa.
A few things I have decided upon because of budget constraints:
There will be no text input, the only input it will accept are the award names (from a selectable list) and serial numbers. This is to keep it fast, and cheap. Mahdi, your concern over possible problems with Cyrillic is noted. I will talk to the programmer about that.
Membership..I believe it will be less expensive to have a separate membership than to integrate the memberships from the forum. Again, I will inquire with the programmers.
Regarding stolen awards..might be to expensive to code this into the database for the small amount of entry it will receive. What I will do is if anyone knows of awards that have been stolen, I will make a forum wide announcement ( all the announcements stay at the top of each forum group ) then I will post the message in the appropriate forum with the subject line STOLEN: with the Order name and serial number.
It would be up to the person who receives a hit to do the foot-work of tracking the award from there. If the person who posted it no longer has it, then they may be able to tell who has it now. Maybe in the future this may change.
I've got to think bare bones here everyone..the essentials are what we are going to get in the beginning. If it takes off, who knows.
Art
Mahdi, your offer is appreciated..all of the members thank you. Not only does Mahdi put his time into this site, but his class work at school keeps him busy as it is. As it stands now, I submitted a project outline to a group of freelance programmers. What I will do is pay for the basic project, then if I see alot of good things happen, and there is some good buzz around about what we are doing, who knows what else I will implement. But at least we are going to do something that has never been done before! It is going to be interesting to say the least. Just be ready to start entering those award numbers..
What I might do is place banners on this and only this part of the website, just to help generate traffic. All of the members will have to do their part to get anyone with a serial numbered soviet award to enter their information. More participation equals more results and vice versa.
A few things I have decided upon because of budget constraints:
There will be no text input, the only input it will accept are the award names (from a selectable list) and serial numbers. This is to keep it fast, and cheap. Mahdi, your concern over possible problems with Cyrillic is noted. I will talk to the programmer about that.
Membership..I believe it will be less expensive to have a separate membership than to integrate the memberships from the forum. Again, I will inquire with the programmers.
Regarding stolen awards..might be to expensive to code this into the database for the small amount of entry it will receive. What I will do is if anyone knows of awards that have been stolen, I will make a forum wide announcement ( all the announcements stay at the top of each forum group ) then I will post the message in the appropriate forum with the subject line STOLEN: with the Order name and serial number.
It would be up to the person who receives a hit to do the foot-work of tracking the award from there. If the person who posted it no longer has it, then they may be able to tell who has it now. Maybe in the future this may change.
I've got to think bare bones here everyone..the essentials are what we are going to get in the beginning. If it takes off, who knows.
Art
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