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#249

I’ve removed St Wolfgang’s from the banner ad rotation.

The rotation now consists of:
Knightshade
Zombielarp
Multiverse
Freeform Games
Amazon
Star Wars
Paddywhack

Here are some things it might be nice to have banners for:
Chimera
Teonn
Jade Empire
Chrono Continuum
Nightmare Circle
Serenity
Any of the regular White Wolf games

General banners for a campaign are preferable to banner for a specific event, because they don’t have to be changed after the event. But we can do event banners if desired.

#250

Should we have a regional forum for Tauranga? It has a larger population than Dunedin. I’ve heard mention that there may be some larp in the area, but can’t recall the details - I think SlackerJ is from there so might know more.

I wonder if people who are currently flying under the radar would feel encouraged to post if there was a forum for their region?

#251

Im from Tauranga originally. I dont believe I heard of any kind of larp or larp related thing happening there, but I can keep my ears open from my friends who still live there

#252

Okay. I think if we hear of a larp taking place in a major town, we should give that town a forum in the Centres area in order to encourage larpers from that area to post. So Dunedin & Christchurch stay up because we know of some larps happening there, and we’ll add Tauranga if we hear of a larp there.

#253

There was definitely larp in Tauranga a few years back. Jamie and Manky both came to Hamilton from Tauranga. There were some guys that used to come over for Quest back in the day also. I’ll see if Jamie knows of anyone over there.

#254

I’ve added a paragraph about hidden forums to the Welcome to Diatribe post.

#255

Are New Horizons and Dreams in the Witch House approved projects of NZLARPS? If so I’ll mark them as such on the website.

Are there any other newish projects or affiliates that aren’t listed or have the wrong status? I’ve just marked Wolfgang’s as a past project.

#256

Yes on both. Also, Zombielarp is a project.

Nexus, the Mage campaign, is an affiliate.

#257

Thanks.

I’ve set up Patrick as the manager of Nexus, Matt Moore for Dreams in the Witch House, and Rowena for New Horizons. Managers can edit the group and create events for it, although in the case of monthly events that isn’t necessary. Already had ZombieLARP as a project.

#258

Has New Horizons finished?

If so I’ll remove it from the regular events on the NZLARPS homepage (those are hardcoded in HTML, not coming from the database) and mark the project as Past in the database.

#259

Yes it has. The final game was April 30th. :frowning:

#260

Is the new Werewolf: The Forsaken - The Tides of Change chronicle going to be a project or affiliate of nzLARPS, or neither? Planning to add it as a game on the society website and wondering what type to list it as.

#261

Last I heard, they were intending to be a project.

#262

I’ve just been updating groups and events on the NZLARPS website.

I’ve renamed “One World By Night” to “The Phoenix Rising”, set Chris Hoggins as manager (I can’t make Kirsten Goodall one because I can’t find a user for her), linked to their forum instead of the thread on Diatribe and put in a brief description of the larp which could be improved by someone more in the know.

Added Kapcon and Hydra.

Added new Jade Empire weekend game.

Is “Tides of Change” running regularly? What I see for it is this thread and their forum, but I can only find a date for one event.

#263

I’ve made Bryn a moderator on the Wellington forum so he can keep the upcoming events register there up to date in a tidy way, and given him permission to make stickies.

Pretty happy about the number of people signing to use the Dunedin campaign’s forum, it’s about 15 new users so far.

There have also been a lot of requests for private forums recently, so there’s a lot going on.

I’m away from mid April to the end of April, so if Anna or Derek would like to pick up doing admin stuff that’d be great. I’ll redirect the DiatribeAdmin PM email notifications to whoever wants to put their hand up to cover that period, so you know when requests arrive.

#264

I’ve removed mention of the issuing of membership cards when someone joins or renews via the website.

At present the site sends emails to both the Treasurer and Secretary when someone joins and renews. The email to the Treasurer asks them to update the member’s details when payment is received, presumably because the Treasurer can see the bank account.

The email to the Secretary previously asked them to send out a membership card, but also for new members to create a membership number for them. Does it need to be the Secretary who does this now that we don’t have member cards, or could the Treasurer create the membership number, so that everything to get the member set up happens in one action by one person?

#265

Given the popularity of the Google calendar, I’m wondering if we should remove event listings from the NZLARPS database website, rather than trying to keep that up to date too. It’s kinda redundant.

We may be able to replace it with a view of the Google calendar integrated into the site.

#266

I’ve had a look into this, and it’s possible. Google provide an application programming interface (API) for the calendar and a PHP library to use with it:

developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/

So we could get rid of the event listing on the NZLARPS website, and replace it with a summary of upcoming events from the Google calendar. It might look much like it does now, but driven from the Google calendar data.

I’d need login access to our Google calendar in order to set it up to allow access via the API.

#267

I’ve just taken a look at the nzLARPS calendar on the main webpage and it needs a bit of an update:

Fortnightly Los Angeles by Night DUN - no longer running
Mthly 1st Sat Requiem AKL - finished two years ago
Mthly 2nd Sat The Phoenix Rising AKL - still relevant
Mthly 2nd Sat Darkness Falls HLT - finished a year or two ago
Mthly 3rd Sat Nexus AKL - finished last year

It’d be worth PMing darkling2000 (Chris Evans) to find out when their Duchy of Flint old world of Darkness Changeling game runs (I think it’s the first Saturday) and afaik that and Phoenix Rising are the only two monthly games running at the moment. There’s a New World of Darkness Changeling campaign set to kick off in September (titled “Fates Unbound”)

Maybe worth including is the dates of the Friday Night Larps?

#268

Thanks Anna.

I’ve added Friday Night Larps and removed the outdated regular events.

I’ve emailed Chris to ask about the Duchy of Flint.