Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Soccer planning tool

It is my intention to soon help develop a simple soccer planning tool (see below for set-up of algorithm). This will then be linked to the weblog. In non-technical terms, everybody should fill in his intentions for the coming Saterday and / or Wednesday soccer events (at any time) and will know instantly who and how many will show up. In case of too few player a web post or E-mail may automatically be created asking others to join. The program will also announce through the weblog or E-mail the cancelation of the event in case too few players are listed shortly before the event. This tool can also be used to show possible last-minute changes in location.

But once again, it all starts with having everybody being a weblog member. So, please try to convince the non-members to join asap.

Now Otto is already an active and enthusiastic weblogger I hope he will become a bit more supportive. With some little money I can outsource this algorithm to a local IT person (this would speed it up considerably).

Please let me know your thoughts about this approach.

Furthermore I will prepare standard picture galleries to be linked to the weblog. This may also be the way to show video's.

Regards,

Albert

Automatic soccer planning algorithm (for the week ahead)
1. Open database and check your name
2. Read and confirm computer date and read names of active Saturday and
Wednesday players
3. Ask question ‘Do you play next Saturday?’
4. Mark field and save / close
5. Reply ‘there are __ many players' / show list of players
6. If # of players less than e.g. 6 create weblog post / E-mail to mobilize more players
7. Ask question ‘Do you play next Wednesday?’
8. Mark field and save / close
9. Reply ‘There are __ many players.’ / show list of players
10. If # of players less than e.g. 8 create weblog post to mobilize more players
11. If remaining time is less than e.g. 4 hrs and players are less than needed 6
or 8 send E-mail to active players and weblog canceling the match.

1 comment:

Flemming Hansen said...

Sounds good. It's a learning process though, good for the mind, so keep progressing.

flemming