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I was thinking if you guys have some time, it mught be fun to organize a contest for programming, web dev, forums hacks whatever.
Winners would be voted, and they get to have something like extra process on their shell account or an extra service.
What say you?

Lately we are just getting everything straight on Phoenix. And didn't have the time to advance. Summer vacation ended, everyone has school, work and other things to do now... Yes, the staff too.

Your suggestion might be a good one, but not for the current situation. It might be a good idea for the future to attract more users, of course if the other staff agrees.

Hm, when reading this a image of "moving work on the community" popped into my mind instead of "oh no, even more work" . What I mean, just because its some effort to organize a content, it doesnt mean it couldn't be of any good for all of us.

I've seen it work for few communities that's why I'm suggesting it.
A lot of people like challenges (including myself) just so they can show people how good they are at a specific area.

I think it sounds like a cool idea, and with the new points system prizes would be easy. Also, if you wanted to introduce the new services type thing for rewards, people could buy those directly with a certain ammount of points

I think this is a wonderful idea and a great thing for us to look into in the future. Lets hear some suggestions about what kind of contests we could have.

This really seems like a great thing to inspire community activity here. Well done.

Tim wrote:I think this is a wonderful idea and a great thing for us to look into in the future. Lets hear some suggestions about what kind of contests we could have.

This really seems like a great thing to inspire community activity here. Well done.

Yeah, especially for the forum sometimes...
We need to think of something for the IRC channel, it's like idling 12 hours of the day.

ludakot wrote:I was thinking if you guys have some time, it mught be fun to organize a contest for programming, web dev, forums hacks whatever.
Winners would be voted, and they get to have something like extra process on their shell account or an extra service.
What say you?

Exellent idea! I suggest PHP hacks, MySQL injections, and the patch to prevent these hacks since I am going to design a DJ website and/or forum.

Good ideea! We could have grafics contests, game contests (Warcraft 3, Guild Wars) and many types of contests but nothing TOO hard ^_^

Raziel wrote:Good ideea! We could have grafics contests, game contests (Warcraft 3, Guild Wars) and many types of contests but nothing TOO hard ^_^

I really like the idea of game contests.
Like hosting a private server for Call Of Duty or any other games.. Hmm wait is that legal?

Most dedicated servers come with no license fee, so I dont see the problem there.

we already have an idling contest for the irc users who idle 12 hours per day #idlerpg

And now that the server has been wiped it will be starting again from 0 - so now The`Saint won't be 10 levels ahead of everyone else!

Oh you mean contest that requires more talent than just connecting online???? lol
That is a great idea. How about a competition to create a fun web thingo. Something bizarre and innovative that is not on the web already (so no YTMNDs!)

How about a competition to create a fun web thingo. Something bizarre and innovative that is not on the web already (so no YTMNDs!)

Awesome idea, i'm up 100% for it! infact i'll get started right away

Rommaster wrote:

Raziel wrote:Good ideea! We could have grafics contests, game contests (Warcraft 3, Guild Wars) and many types of contests but nothing TOO hard ^_^

I really like the idea of game contests.
Like hosting a private server for Call Of Duty or any other games.. Hmm wait is that legal?

AGE OF EMPIRES II!

Sorry. That game is just pure fun. It's old, but it's fun, and it works on just about any computer (well, as long as it's running Windows). One of the players has to host though.

As for IRC, there really is no true formula to get chats going. If you have at least three people who are dedicated to that chat room and chat there daily, you might get some other people to begin talking. Otherwise, many of us already have channels we dedicate our time to and cannot be part of that "core" community.

ludakot wrote:I was thinking if you guys have some time, it mught be fun to organize a contest for programming, web dev, forums hacks whatever.
Winners would be voted, and they get to have something like extra process on their shell account or an extra service.
What say you?

Yes we can begin with like making some phoenix network banner or logo , the contest can be for 10 days and at the end the root here will tell whos the winner the one whos banner (logo) wins can get some extra stuff and the winner banner (logo) can be posted at the website of every phoenix user...