When will planning for Freezing Saddles start?
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@vvill 128828 wrote:
– I would check with hozn/jrenaut to see if they could just do a form on the website? Maybe integrate it with the Strava token/login. That way it could easily be reused in future competitions and the data used for team assignments, etc. could be stored in similar fashion. And you can only sign up if you’ve already got your Strava account working.
I really wanted to make that happen for this year, but I’ve been working overtime at work since Aug, so have had no time for any extracurricular software development. Heck, I am barely finding enough time to ride my bike.
This isn’t a huge undertaking, but it won’t happen this year unless someone [else] wants to do it.
From a data perspective, we need the following pieces of information for every registrant:
– Name
– Strava ID
– Forum ID
– (And eventually) Team AssignmentWe also need to know the handicap if we want to provide for awards based on sandbagging. I was not involved in the algorithm for team assignment last year; I have no idea how that happened or any opinion on the effectiveness of last year’s system. I don’t recall it being significantly different than previous years.
@vvill 128828 wrote:
– Slacker team 4eva. It’s not that slackers don’t care about the riding in BAFS and the competition, they just don’t necessarily want to be competing in a team. Because it’s a team game, when you join a team you are actually making a commitment of sorts (even if it’s friendly/casual). And anyone who has clicked through some of the stats/categories would see that we have some pretty awesome queries going on that Strava does not easily give you (integrating with weather data, for one).
I have personally put myself on the slacker team in the past primarily because (1) there’s value in adding myself to the leaderboard from a software development/testing perspective and (2) I’m wise enough not to actually play the game for real again
But I think vvill hits the nail on the head here. It’s nice to allow people to be involved in the social aspect (and individual accomplishment awards??) without making the commitment to ride for a team.
I’m not sure how many more years I’ll be interested in doing development or maintenance work on the backend, but I’m happy to do it again this year. There are many things I would like to improve; from a professional perspective, the app is pretty embarrassing, so maybe I’ll take some time to improve that this year.
My ultimate goal with the codebase is to make it possible for people in different parts of the country/world/universe to organize their own cycling competitions with their own rules/team frameworks/metrics. dcv had asked about using this for his workplace last year; it’d be nice to see a generic competition framework realized.
@jrenaut 128869 wrote:
So if anyone knows a young Python developer with time on his/her hands, perhaps you might suggest they take part.
Yeah, and give me their name too so we can maybe hire them — and then I will have more free time!
@cvcalhoun 128868 wrote:
Okay, Zip Code is back.
Yay. Because what was said about this being a social thing is very correct for me. I’m hoping for a Maryland team, because I would never be able to make it to Virginia or even DC on a regular basis. And I know how crazy competitive you Virginians are. You don’t want me on your team.
…Busy recruiting more Marylanders…
*raises hand meekly* But, I was injured and had surgery and couldn’t participate even on the Slacker team in 2015. Lemme on the slacker team this year…pleeeeease.
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