Freezing Saddles 2014 Discussion Draft

[rcannon100]

@GregBain 69263 wrote:

Without understand our IT problem at all, I was just wondering if not having teams would remove the problem?

I was on the misfit team last year, so it was really an individual competition for me, which I was perfectly happy with.

Nah! If its an individual competition, then just send me RodSmith’s address now and I will send him the first place award. We dont even have to have the competition.

The idea of the hat-tournament is to create multiple teams of relatively the same handicap.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@GregBain 69263 wrote:

Without understand our IT problem at all, I was just wondering if not having teams would remove the problem?

I was on the misfit team last year, so it was really an individual competition for me, which I was perfectly happy with.

Misfit? Our top three riders rode 4,000 miles between them. Or were you referring to our personalities?

[americancyclo]

@ShawnoftheDread 69267 wrote:

Misfit? Our top three riders rode 4,000 miles between them. Or were you referring to our personalities?

which one are you?

[ShawnoftheDread]

@americancyclo 69281 wrote:

which one are you?

Well I’m not Glenn Danzig, I can tell you that right now. Or maybe I am.

[vvill]

@rcannon100 69228 wrote:

So…. who has contacted what services? Hozn is signed up to contact RWGps? Any others? I think its an excellent idea (as in someone said it at FCCII this morning). What services can we contact?

I believe hozn has already contacted Strava (perhaps more than once), and rwgps.
Garmin Connect and RunKeeper already have accessible APIs, I think, but I think overall we’d rather be able to save people from having to sign up new accounts for this year since everyone is already on Strava.

[consularrider]

@rcannon100 69265 wrote:

Nah! If its an individual competition, then just send me RodSmith’s address now and I will send him the first place award. We dont even have to have the competition.

But he didn’t have the most points last year, did he?

[KelOnWheels]

@ShawnoftheDread 69283 wrote:

Well I’m not Glenn Danzig, I can tell you that right now. Or maybe I am.

Nah, I’ve seen you. You’re taller than Danzig.

[Rod Smith]

@consularrider 69339 wrote:

But he didn’t have the most points last year, did he?

That was last year Chris.

[consularrider]

I’m not planning on spraining my ankle again, so you won’t be starting with a 600 point advantage.

[rcannon100]

@consularrider 69339 wrote:

But he didn’t have the most points last year, did he?

I consulted the NBC scores.

[hozn]

@vvill 69288 wrote:

I believe hozn has already contacted Strava (perhaps more than once), and rwgps.
Garmin Connect and RunKeeper already have accessible APIs, I think, but I think overall we’d rather be able to save people from having to sign up new accounts for this year since everyone is already on Strava.

Yeah, I got a automated-looking response (actually two of them) from Strava saying that my API request was on a list and that they may grant more keys in coming months.

I have had a great exchange with Cullen from RWGPS and have a developer key to play with. They have API calls (largely undocumented) to support what we need and have some intriguing features like photo support which could make leaderboards interesting. And they have some competition stuff supported directly by their site, though it sounds like that is a work in progress. I certainly still have questions after looking at the example calls he sent, but this seems like it offers strong potential. Cullen also suggested that we could beta test their Android recorder app that they plan to release in January. I think the challenge is that we’d want to get RWGPS support added to tapiriik. I don’t know how much time I’ll have to work on this, but I will get in touch with the guy behind tapiriik and at least put him in touch Cullen. If I have time, I can maybe help writer the RWGPS connector.

More to come …

[sjclaeys]

We will need a new location for the Freezing Saddles awards ceremony: http://www.arlnow.com/2013/11/20/baileys-closes-in-crystal-city/

[americancyclo]

I won’t miss walking through the smoke in my bike kit.

[culimerc]

@sjclaeys 69758 wrote:

We will need a new location for the Freezing Saddles awards ceremony: http://www.arlnow.com/2013/11/20/baileys-closes-in-crystal-city/

How ’bout the Forest Inn??

[PeteD]

Strava wrote:

I do know, however, that we should have self-serve API sign-up very soon – hopefully within a a few days. So your friend should be able to review terms and sign up for API keys shortly. There’s also a developers@strava.com email address set up, but I don’t think the guy running the API here does a great job of responding to emails.

My update from Strava.

–Pete

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