Thread: Movember 2017

Regarding Movember initiatives fir 2018, as well as what happened to the 17 badges I’ve been having initial chats with Ivan. Badge may need a facelift for long time supporters, lest our signatures start to look silly. That may require some I.T. support. Not my forte..
For this year, same as last, we will need country captains to link their respective sites to the palace.
We will start a 2018 thread towards the end of August to really try to harness the collective energies and altruism of the members here..
Start tuned men.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Regarding Movember initiatives fir 2018, as well as what happened to the 17 badges I’ve been having initial chats with Ivan. Badge may need a facelift for long time supporters, lest our signatures start to look silly. That may require some I.T. support. Not my forte..
For this year, same as last, we will need country captains to link their respective sites to the palace.
We will start a 2018 thread towards the end of August to really try to harness the collective energies and altruism of the members here..
Start tuned men.

Will the facelift for badges retro actively? Should the badge change ie: add a Chevron every year? Or a single badge that when you hover the mouse will show years active?

Retroactive would be my view.
Like the idea of hovering for years served too, that’d be a neat subtlety.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Retroactive would be my view.
Like the idea of hovering for years served too, that’d be a neat subtlety.

Thanks, the concept is fairly easy the problem may come from the admin because I think someone said there would be update issues when they go to update the forum software with the new version. They wouldn't want to reinsert code into the new version.

Thanks for taking this bull by the proverbial horns, Mike!
It is much appreciated!

I guess before anything is done, we need to figure out who's taking the lead this year.
Don't need a repeat...........

Good point Dave. I assume there need be country captains again as local creators of their respective sites on the mo network.
Where we will gain traction this year as a forum is if we have a point person within SRP creating the badge/banners for participants that work with our servers, as well as media relations to other sites or sponsors to help motivate members to donate or bid on raffle items created for the event. Movember Thread management, etc..

You are doing a bang up job on the monthly raffle currently Dave so would think you the natural choice for the mo movement drive this year if you have the time once more..

Originally Posted by whoever

Thanks, the concept is fairly easy the problem may come from the admin because I think someone said there would be update issues when they go to update the forum software with the new version. They wouldn't want to reinsert code into the new version.

That's the main issue. It seems to me that the problem with a thick stack of badges over the years is directly the result of using the functionality built-in the software. To make it better we'll have to either figure out some other creative way to utilize the software, or we'll have to add on customization to achieve it.

The problem is using separate badge for each year, so it seems that the solution is to compress the repeating information of 'movember' into a single badge and only add the years to it.

I like your idea with the years one has participated in to only show as an overlay on mouse-over. Another thing off the top of my head is to compress the individual years to a single number of years, so we can have movember for 1,2,3,4,5,etc. years (we can also use different colors but that may be too much). There'll be a loss of information, for example people will have the same badge 'movember 2yr' whether they've participated in 2011 and 2017, or in 2016 and 2018. But this can be done with the built-in functionality.

Customizing the software complicates things both in having to create the customization in the first place, and then having to maintain it - as you noted every time we get a new release we'll have to customize it, ensure compatibility, resolve any conflicts or issues. It's not the end of the world but it's an extra work. With well written/packaged customization the work can be minimized but not eliminated.

I like the idea of number of years sounds cleaner looking. But i know nothing of the details in what it takes to make and keep this computer magic happening. All i can say is it would look cleaner.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Good point Dave. I assume there need be country captains again as local creators of their respective sites on the mo network.
Where we will gain traction this year as a forum is if we have a point person within SRP creating the badge/banners for participants that work with our servers, as well as media relations to other sites or sponsors to help motivate members to donate or bid on raffle items created for the event. Movember Thread management, etc..

You are doing a bang up job on the monthly raffle currently Dave so would think you the natural choice for the mo movement drive this year if you have the time once more..

Mike, first off thanks Brother!!

I'll step in and do what I can to help out. We just need to be sure this year, probably starting now, we get our ducks in a row.
It is pretty simple to get things going and work with our Mo-Bros for things in their end.

Let me see what is actually going on with other memebers here and we'll take it from there.