First, to the moderator. If this is not the place to do this, tell me now and I will cease immediately or direct me to where I am authorized to do this.
Over the last 20 years I have spent roughly $85,000 of my own money and thousands of hours plus buckets of sweat to develop a concept involving on line real world semi-virtual tournaments for Bowling and Golf. I successfully wrote the code in RBase back in the late 80's and used CoRemote to operate a tournament between 11 Golf courses without the benefit of the internet. The concept worked, but was klutzy in its technicality and far ahead of its time. I wrote the code for Bowling as well, but as a stand alone app at one bowling center. The tournaments are similar, but with variances for equalizing team play and in the arena of golf, equalizing golf courses. Bowling did not require the sophistication of equalizing golf courses, but they both worked in concept. Fast forward to the present. As the internet evolved, my skills to code fell behind what was necessary to work in this new environment. I turned to others to write the code with disastrous results. They took my money and I received unworkable code in return. I have had a developer work for a share of the business, but when the DotCom bubble burst, he faded away without completing the task. So here is my proposal. I would like to challenge you who would be willing take on a project and accept a challenge. I will send the requirements, business rules, work flows and any other thing necessary to develop the concept in Bowling. (the simplest and easiest of the two). You can develop independently, or in teams. All who participate will share in the results regardless if your concept is the one that we move forward with. All who submit a finished working tournament will share equally. Those that participate will share according to their input. How much will be determined by the other participants. I retain a third ownership. Participants, by agreeing to contribute, are agreeing to not compete as you will be using my business concept, requirements and rules. The judges will be members of the mv community, your peers, fellow developers, members in the bowling industry and myself. This has a potential for becoming very convoluted if we make it that way, so lets try to keep it as simple as possible. The one thing we need to agree on is a time frame for completion. So, I suggest six months. If that is not enough time, we can push it out to 12 months. Whichever we agree on, it will then be rock solid. We will start the clock officially in the 4th of May 2004. You may begin whenever you wish. My personal belief, based on the contests conducted in Sweden (?) is that this could be developed as a non internet app in a week since most of the rules, flows, DFD's, definitions and logic are already done. (The architecture is designed around normalized dbs which we can thrown out the window right away). The stumbling block for me has always been how to set it up for the internet. I have no more resources left other than the ideas behind the concept, sweat and time. You will have to provide your own licenses to whatever apps you require as I do not have any left to contribute. I have a day job, as most all of you do, so can only work on this off hours. If you wish to participate, we can make this an open forum, but I am willing to make this as simple as possible. We can let the U2 community follow our progress, or not, as we deem reasonable. This is a mv project, not only to make money, but if this is successful it will be a shining star, a very visible one for db world we work in. There are no guarantees, and I have said, this would be my fourth effort at it. It has not failed because the idea was flawed, it has failed because I could not get a working demonstration to the Bowling Proprietors and the Bowling community to witness. If we succeed in Bowling we move on to Golf or for the more ambitious among you, you may work on that sport variation as well. There are no other sports that will work as it is conceived today. The concept is copyrighted, so there are some protections and I have the opinion of the Attorney General of the State of South Carolina as to its legality. This is a tournament concept. It's as simple as that. I will send all supporting documents to those that respond. The web presence I have for this is www.POTBOWLING.COM. It contains a general outline and some FAQ's. It is a 1and1 site which is available for development or you can use your own. I own POTBOWLING.COM. Please respond in this list (if the moderator approves) and to my personal email @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are interested. Thanks! ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
