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mclemore

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There was a comment in another thread about the game submission tool (etc). New games have been adding up in queue. A while back I asked for help with this and a few people stepped up, but then burned out before we got very far with the queue. There is a similar issue with a number of the other site functions--the backend system is great for someone versed in it, but much much less so towards a casual crowd edit perspective. It's long vexed me here.

We have had a few people PM me to offer to help in the last 6 weeks. I've been working crazy hours so haven't been able to work with them much. Things are getting a tiny bit better so I am looking to spend at least a half a day (probably a week from tomorrow) working on site functionality.

We also have some volunteers helping to scan pinball era content and we have some already scanned waiting to go online.

I posted a thread a week back month asking for some deep tech help and the subject matter was probably a little too esoteric for anyone to help (http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=364009 ). I think I need to reach out for this work... I'm thinking of trying Upwork (or eLance) but my experience in the past with this has been really mixed. If anyone has suggestions on where I should hunt for (1) good back end developers -- PHP, C, SQL and/or javascript mix, and (2) good front end developments (css, HTML5, design), please let me know...

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I posted a thread a week back month asking for some deep tech help and the subject matter was probably a little too esoteric for anyone to help (http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=364009 ). I think I need to reach out for this work... I'm thinking of trying Upwork (or eLance) but my experience in the past with this has been really mixed. If anyone has suggestions on where I should hunt for (1) good back end developers -- PHP, C, SQL and/or javascript mix, and (2) good front end developments (css, HTML5, design), please let me know...

Not much for the front-end, but I can chip in on the back-end of things.

I have database experience in mongodb, mysql, percona, MSsql, postgresql, oracle, greenplum, and more...

I have development experience in perl, php, node.js, javascript, TCL, C#/.NET, linux batch scripting, powershell, and more...

I have also installed and administered a variety of forum software (phpbb, discourse, invision, joomla, wordpress, xenforo [like vbulletin], and more i can't recall).

lemme know if you need any assistance and we can further discuss this in private (PM-land).

thanks!
 
any updates?

I see we have another donation announcement to the IAM: http://forums.arcade-museum.com/announcement.php?f=55

I've put in my $100 already.

So what is being done in terms of the IAM vaps/klov database?

Take an example of a game, Mazinger Z: http://www.arcade-museum.com/image_upload.php?game_id=8651

klov-8651.jpg


The uploaded images are converted into unix timestamps...

So, the green highlighted images above are pending from: Monday, May 28, 2007 8:06:40 AM GMT-4:00 DST

The yellow highlighted images are the 2 I just added to the db today: Monday, December 19, 2016 10 : 15 : 56 AM GMT-5:00

......................

Not sure the purpose of the user, modessitt ( http://forums.arcade-museum.com/member.php?u=33663 ) and his title of Volunteer: Encyclopedia Submission Moderator

What is the lack of communication here? Why is no work being done? If work is being done, what's been done?

This very subject has been posted numerous times without any communication. If we're DONATING to this cause, I would at least expect some updates, please!

mclemore? tombo? modessitt? anyone?

please advise...
 
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