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News / Re: TI-Story moves to its own site
« on: April 19, 2012, 09:01:20 am »
I wonder if Fryedsoft is still around? THat guy joined the TI community in 1993 and maybe he could fill some sections out if he have the time. :) Also Travis from ticalc has been around since 1994 or so, if I remember.

EDIT: Did TI-Files really have 42 staff at once or were every staff listed?? O.O Maybe we need some rules about consistency so for example, only founders and final staff are listed or retired staff are flagged as retired on the history page of the site. I would probably have to search hard through Omnimaga staff to make sure I don't miss any retired staff, though, because since the site had strong policies regarding staff activity and had a lot of staff in the first place, it had many.

Also how do we upload images on pages? Because the main logo shown in the summary is the one from almost 11 years ago and we used the following one since March 2004:



In fact, in calculator programs this one was used since 2003, although the fonts were slightly different.

I actually emailed Ed Fry and Travis Evans about two months ago, but I didn't get any response. I suppose I could always email them again ;D

I simply listed all of the staff of TI-Files on the page; trying to classify people as retired or final staff would be quite difficult, as TI-Files had a rather high staff turn-over rate and I don't know enough to make that judgement call. Creating that page actually took several hours of researching with ticalc.org, the Wayback Machine, and googling; it was also made more difficult because of the robots.txt file that prevents the Wayback Machine from archiving/accessing a site. I agree that there needs to be some guidelines created for consistency, but that is really only possible if you have a group of people helping...

You can upload an image by hovering over the other tools button on the top of the page, and then clicking the manage files button in the dropbox.

It's really cool to see a site like this developing that will chronicle the TI community history :)

It's really cool to see that you're still around the TI community :)

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News / Re: TI-Story moves to its own site
« on: April 18, 2012, 08:12:49 pm »
@DJ_O: Thanks for making a news post. I've been spending all of my time merging the site contents, so I completely forgot to give you guys (and Cemetech) an update.

@mob-i-l: I actually came across your site when I was researching Graph-TI and Calc-TI O.O Like everyone else here (except you), I wasn't around for that part of the TI community, so the best I could do was read about it and try to piece everything together. Speaking of which, would you mind looking through the timeline page on TI Story, and filling out some more of the early events that happened in the TI community? I would also be interested in hearing about what the TI community was like then. Honestly, I'm really excited to see you on this site... I feel like a little kid again :D

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I have only briefly looked at the non-English TI community, but I think they are an important part of the TI community history and should be involved in this project as well.
I've been updating the TI-Planet page, and think the other TI-Planet admins will contribute too :)
Thanks for the help, the page looks good :) While searching through the ticalc.org program archives, I've noticed that there are lots of French TI programmers that have been part of the community. Although I don't speak French, I think that's the part of the TI community that is most interesting. What do you guys know about the French TI community?

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Heya burr (spandiv) and welcome here :D. Glad you guys took the initiative to start the wiki. :) Initially our plan was to put it on WikiTI. Maybe that could be a solution if you want to relocate it? (WikiTI had a TI community history section since 2006 anyway, but it just never took off as much as TI-Story did).

Unfortunately though I would have to decline any offer for admin/mod on another site, though, in short to semi-long terms, because I do not know if my health is good enough yet to take on such task (not to mention I retired from Omnimaga administration a year ago). Also as of the last few months I've been splitting my activity in half between calc and hockey business forums. I could possibly help editing some pages and correcting stuff while I have free time, though, like I did a few days ago.
I understand, that makes sense. I actually did look at WikiTI, but it just has a few TI community-related pages. WikiTI and TI-Basic Developer are both good resources for programming information and documentation, and I think that should remain their focus and scope.

What I am envisioning with TI Story is a TI community version of Wikipedia, so I think it makes sense to create a separate wiki as there is a massive amount of TI community information and history that should be documented. I also think it would be better to consolidate forces around one complete TI community wiki we can all use and enjoy, instead of several small wikis with scant information that just ends up wasting time and effort. I have only briefly looked at the non-English TI community, but I think they are an important part of the TI community history and should be involved in this project as well.

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I am happy to see that you guys found your way to TI Story, and that you even started  contributing :) I am thinking about moving TI Story to its own wiki to give it more  space to grow and mature, and because it is becoming rather cumbersome to have to sidestep all of the TI-Basic Developer content.

Although my primary interest in TI Story is researching content and writing articles, I recognize that the social aspect of posting updates and drumming up community support is a critical component of a site's success. So, I wanted to recruit a couple people that would be fellow administrators, and would handle the public relations side of TI Story.

I have put a lot of thought into who would be an appropriate administrator, and I think it would make sense if it was Kevin Ouellet and Kerm Martian. Both of them are well-known and respected within the TI community, and Omnimaga and Cemetech are currently the two most active sites in the community. It would basically amount to a site affiliation of sorts. So, what do you guys think about the idea?

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