Browncoat HQ?

POSTED BY: SerenityNow
UPDATED: Sunday, February 22, 2004 06:04
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PUDOR

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:45 PM

I've got plenty of professional webspace going spare, if you want a temporary home - didn't have time to read the whole thread, so apologies if you've already found something. (Are apologies in order? Congratulations? I don't know.)

But anyway - anyone who's willing to spearhead something, just email me and I'll give you a password to browncoats.pudor.net or whatever. On the other hand, if people are willing to put in £5 a year for a decent domain name, I'll register it and set up a new hosting account for it (I have a reseller account).

SERENITYNOW

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:53 PM

Wow. Y'all here are like angels. The guys over at the official boards are kinda dismissive. Can't some of you get over there and talk to them?

Anyway, pudor--you're really sweet. Email me (or anyone else here) if you want to get the full scoop: f3k64@yahoo.com.

http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/

RKLENSETH

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:08 PM

I don't get on the Official Firefly board unless someone directs me to a thread from here to there. I also like this kind of PHP Forum better than the one they have for the official board.

Anywys, my friend got back to me and asked me what the content would be and whether it will be free or not to the public. I told him a little about what the Browncoats were and what you guys would like to show on the website. I also figured the site would be free to the public so I told him this.

All I am waiting for now is a a response from him.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

HOGHUG

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 5:55 PM

Great! It seems like things are moving forward. Finding the place to put the info may not be as big an issue as how to collect and compile it.

What about just a "Where are you, Browncoat?" Type thread and then as people respond just poll individuals about groups in their area... as we start to pull all of this together we can form a transfer the data to our beta-website as well as collect additional data from there.

Okay? Yes? No? I've never done this kind of thing before, but always willin' to jump in with both feet.

Jeff

"... if wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak!"

SERENITYNOW

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:02 PM

That sounds like the right way to do it.

It's just, it's be easier to have everyone buy into the idea so that it'd work. I guess that means getting the "shindig" site people and the Browncoat Ball people, not to mention the "firefly-support" people in on it. That is, getting in touch with them and seeing to what extent they'd like to be involved--or whether we should just plan on putting a few links onto them. They seem to be the main players.

The official boards core people seem to be kinda clannish--I mean, they've got everything they need and don't see why this site is necessary. Kind of a tight group. So we may not get them to join in.

But I think we should start now by contacting the other groups. Should we divvy them up? (And does anyone know how to contact the Browncoat Ball people?)

http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/

HOGHUG

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:19 PM

I know that you got a lot of, "This is already being done." kind of thing on the OB... and that may be partially the case, but I sure didn't find a way to contact Browncoats in my area from these sites. Did you? That is the point right?

I'll e-mail everyone you mention and ask for help. If we're repeating ourselves... cool!

Redundant data is more accessible data.

If we list stuff and so does 3 other sites, so what? As long as we all share information (which I think was your point)... the overlap means that people out there looking are all the more likely to find what they're looking for.

Jeff

"... if wishes we're horses we'd all be eatin' steak!"

SHINY

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:33 PM

Let me know what I can do to help. I have managed content on my company's Web sites before.

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

KISBUNDAS

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:06 PM

Greetings from one of those 'shindig site' people ;-)

Here's the scoop as I see it...
We've tried getting a more ogranized group of browncoats to come together a few times in the past and there has either been a) outright opposition or b) a steady decrease in interest once something has been done.

I was most interested in seeing better organization with regard to shindig planning...everyone was throwing shindigs and people's travel resources were getting all tapped out trying to fly all over the country every other month to meet folks. There was a group of us that wanted the browncoat community to collectively adopt some planning guidelines that would allow us to throw events that could draw in 100+ browncoats rather than the 20 or so that most shindigs manage to pull in. (esp. with a movie it would be great to have the ability to have more visible shindings/conventions that might be able to attract some media attention...or at the very least register on the radar of some of the VIP's we'd love to meet). While there was some interest in a planning committee (that would include representatives from each of the major firefly fan groups) there was also a lot of outright opposition and bickering. So a group of us got together and created www.shindigified.com (a site to plan/promote shindigs) and also came up with the idea of the browncoat ball ( www.browncoatball.com) which we hope will become an annual event (held in different locations and hosted by different groups every year). Involvement with both sites is open to everyone that wants to help...but we got tired of waiting around for folks to come to a consensus on how things should be done.

I'd be happy to open up space on shindigified.com if you'd like to create a database of browncoats. I can't program it myself but I can get you the site specs so that a database could be created. In the meantime, folks are free to create new threads in the discussion forum (e.g one for different geographic areas...like DC-area browncoats, or Bay-area Browncoats, etc.) Honestly, that's how most of the shindigs got started through the official board...someone would post something like: Browncoats in the Boston Area Unite! and then folks from the Boston-area would just start posting.

All this having been said...I still think that its really important that there be some semblance of communication between the major "factions" (if you will) of Firefly fans scattered around the world. However that eventually gets done, I think that it will only make our fandom stronger :)

-Jen/kisbundas

HOGHUG

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:41 PM

Thanks Jen!!

It is great to hear from you and we would definitly love to put some info on shidigified!!

Also, on browncoats.com as soon as Chris can get that ready!!

We can build one collective DB that can be accessed from each site. That would be possible, right?

Great to hear from you. Thanks again!!

Jeff

"... if wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak!"

KISBUNDAS

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 7:53 PM

Yep...depending on how the database gets built you can design front-end pages for any number of sites that could all interface with the same database. I know how this works, but sadly I don't know how to make it work. Pool your collective talent...and we can make it happen.

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