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Volunteer Screenshot Staff Pulls Through
Posted by Morgan on 11 September 2004, 09:04 GMT

That's right, this summer's volunteer screenshot staff did an unbelievable job. The response I got was truly overwhelming. I actually wish never to send that many emails again in my life. However it was well worth it for ticalc.org. As a group we accomplished many things this summer whilst screenshotting the archives, including:

  • Creating and adding over 21,000 screenshots to the archives
  • Outfitting all ASM / Flash / OS files with screenshots (excluding libs and routines)
  • Surpassing a total of 50,000 screenshots on ticalc.org overall

The goal when we started this summer was to make another dent in the archives, much like we did last year. Never did I even think we would have produced as we have! And just as last year, we had an Aussie leading the pack. A big thanks goes to Tim McMahon for doing many of the BASIC files none of us would have done!

Initially the motivational idea I came up with was to offer community service hours, but not too many people were interested in this. So I asked them what they would like as prizes and they came up with some interesting ideas. In addition to CS hours there were two main prizes, to be given to the top two providers. The winner would have the choice of free hosting space on ticalc.org (as long as the site follows our guidelines) or a gift certificate at a certain value anywhere they wanted online. Second place would get what was left over. In addition, as a motivation to keep myself screenshotting, anyone who submitted more screenshots than I would get the same gift certificate. Finally, anyone who submitted more than 40 programs worth of screenshots would get a free @ss.ticalc.org e-mail forwarding address. These have not been set up yet, but will be soon. Thank you Magnus for implementing this and to NickD and Andy Selle for the idea!

So who exactly helped out with this project...well I am glad you asked:

Summer 2004 Volunteer Screenshot Staff
Name Programs Completed Screenshots Made
  Trevor Ashley 137 265
  Mike Bear 834 2,711
  Cal BienVenu 26 82
  Rodney Blythe 169 204
  Carey Bockting 2 5
  Sam Brotherton 17 28
  Jonathan Chandler 47 100
  Andree Chea 51 77
  Daniel Collotte 359 365
  Morgan Davies 2,503 5,648
  Alex Hall 43 68
  Tristan Halvorson 22 40
  Nick Harper 12 28
  Paul Houser 8 13
  Vladislav Kontsevoi 3 5
  Jewgeni Kovalev 29 69
  Jordan Krage 14 30
  Dan Link 15 38
  Tim McMahon 2,123 7,221
     Kim Mears 2 4
  Kiran Nair 71 128
  Danny Newport 152 356
  Eric Peterson 7 25
  Keith Pierce 25 72
  Belgarion Riva 10 34
  Stephen Roberts 119 254
  Steven Schaefer 9 22
  Samuel Shores 121 140
  Patrick Sidney 80 299
  José Sousa 4 6
  Kevin Stock 15 23
  Tiko 3 9
  Matthew Tornetta 42 105
  Dennis Tseng 164 464
  Michael Vincent 1 1
  Lord Werrock 115 189
  Mike White 72 138
  Brandon Whitehead 545 1,442
  Rob Van Wijk 129 267
  Paul Van Zon 24 51
 Totals 8,124 21,026

Tim McMahon has informed me that he will be accepting the free hosting space and thus Mike Bear will get the gift certificate for his second place finish. We will keep you posted on Tim's site plans. All in all 12 people will be receiving @ss.ticalc.org e-mail forwarding addresses and two individuals expressed interest in CS hours. Tim will also get the award for beating me :-)

As you can see, we had lots of help! I just want to thank everyone who helped one last time, mostly just for putting up with all my annoying e-mails! On behalf of the ticalc.org staff, Thank You.

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Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Timmc Account Info
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It was great fun' =P
Perhaps I can do a few more around this time next year.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 12:06 GMT

Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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You know I am not against that! But I don't know if we will continue with this next summer...it takes too much out of me. I would like to say someday that ALL files have screenshots...but its not necissary. I just hope this makes downloading the right files easier and makes rating the files easier as well.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 16:31 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
PlaidPhantom Account Info

Yeah. I wish I'd thought to actually pay enough attention to the game to rate it. I'll have to remember that next time.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 20:39 GMT


Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Barrett Anderson Account Info
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you must be a very patient person.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 19:55 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Timmc Account Info
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Heh, not that patient. I had about 500 programs to do after I'd done 2123 but my computer crashed and everything was lost. This was about 2 days before the extended-extedended deadline. My dialup connection was faulty during downloads and we even had telstra come out and fix it. They didn't so I just switched modems (updated a driver) and hey presto! 44K

Reply to this comment    12 September 2004, 02:40 GMT

Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
tifreak8x  Account Info
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I wish I had time to help, but I was trying to get my star trek game out, work on my site, and other things...

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 12:07 GMT

Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Timmc Account Info
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Well done Michael Vincent, it's participation that counts. :-)

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 12:10 GMT

Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Brian Gordon  Account Info
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lol, probably for his own program too :D

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 12:49 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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No. It was for a program that required TI's CellSheet app that Morgan didn't have.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 14:21 GMT


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Rodney Blythe  Account Info
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Yeah, Morgan he had a hard time finding someone with cellsheet, because, after all, who wants a cellsheet on their calc! :)

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 14:59 GMT


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anykey  Account Info

Anyone with an 83SE is entitled to a copy of cellsheet (for free). Although, I do admit it is kina' pointless.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 15:42 GMT


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Timmc Account Info
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I agree, the machine coding system is kinda' pointless.
*doesn't have a code for the 84+/SE 89/Ti yet*
All other calcs are uh, well I can download the software and run them with the SDKs. ;-)

Reply to this comment    12 September 2004, 07:34 GMT


Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Hey, without Michael, we wouldn't have gotten all the ASM types done.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 16:15 GMT

Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Teoryn  Account Info
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I'm impressed, I know it's hard work. It's great to know that people here can come together to help out.

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 14:31 GMT


Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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I just crunched the numbers and we did 5 times more screenshots this year over last year!

Reply to this comment    11 September 2004, 16:43 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Tzazak  Account Info

Wow, you can divide! I'm so jealous. I'm too dependant on my calculator!

Reply to this comment    12 September 2004, 01:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Volunteer Staff Pulls Through
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Actually I multiplied...dividing sucks :-)

Reply to this comment    12 September 2004, 08:02 GMT


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Lewk Of Serthic  Account Info
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Yeah! So do fractions!

Reply to this comment    14 September 2004, 01:38 GMT


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Jake Griffin  Account Info
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<pointless rant>
Well, being that fractions ARE dividing, and we have established the fact that dividing sucks, then I guess fractions do suck...however, if you think dividing sucks, then you must also think multiplying and subtracting sucks, because that's all you do when you divide, and if you think subtracting sucks, then you must think adding sucks, because all it is is addition of a negative number, and if you think adding sucks, you must REALLY hate counting, because all that is is adding one over and over, and if you hate counting, well...you'll get absolutely NOWHERE in life...
</pointless rant>

Reply to this comment    14 September 2004, 06:08 GMT


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Timmc Account Info
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<shutdown>
"...dividing sucks"
Is that to say that using the method of how many denominators are in the numerator sucks?
No multiplying there, otherwise it would be something like "...cross-multiplying sucks"
</shutdown>

Reply to this comment    14 September 2004, 06:56 GMT


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Jake Griffin  Account Info
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well, I'm talking about long division...all you do in that is * and -

Reply to this comment    14 September 2004, 14:55 GMT


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Chivo  Account Info

Having to perform the algorithm which involves * and - sucks. :)

Reply to this comment    23 September 2004, 00:35 GMT

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