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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