Good afternoon,
Since we have not posted an update in awhile I figured I would do that today. As usual I will use bulletpoints to sum things up.
– SciWorld went well and people enjoyed the conference. Thanks to Star Army, Mystic Fans, UCIP and our team at SimmingHub for making this a great event. We even got some good feedback from stakeholders which we hope to implement soon. More information on that will come at a later date.
– The Workshops we planned to run through SimmingHub have been delayed due to a lack of potential hosts for these projects. I do hope that we will be able to get these started before Fallfest comes around.
– There have been some safety and security updates to our website and Discord to comply with the new UK Digital Safety rules and associated EU age restrictions.
– We have a new member in the executive team; some may remember him from SimmingHub and other things in simming he has contributed to. Please join me in welcoming Ken Gillis as the foundation’s Chief Technology Officer. His role will support me, our web team and systems folks as we continue to expand into offering archival services, web hosting for sim groups, hosting game servers and other tools used by our community and the larger role playing world.
– We are preparing to offer an archival tool to be used to back up participating sim groups writing data. It is a hope that we can help record the history of our shared hobby for future generations but for this starting phase it will be only used on groups who consent and specifically ask to be part of this program. Even once we release a larger crawling bot for this service we will only crawl and archive historical data and sim posts from groups that want us to do so.
That is all for now in this update but it is my hope that someone will post more updates as things happen especially with our technical team having a sustained leadersihp team so I can focus on program implementation rather than handling every technical fire. If you need anything feel free to reach out to me or any of the front office staff.
Josh