I'll be on late Friday evening (or sporadically on Saturday) here: https://www.hipchat.com/gzYdCc3Vn
Might be best if we gather all the interested folks, and get people set up together, and then send them to their specialties... I figure you'll be a data tinker monkey. Make some interesting things, fix a few bugs, and once you grasp the ideas, bust into small source book creation.
I'm Andrew Maitland on Hipchat, can't miss me.
Cheers,
On 3/1/2017 11:18 PM, lissakayeholm@yahoo.com [pcgen] wrote:
I would love to learn and help. I will admit I am pretty much a complete noob in tabletop RPG and my coding experience is just tinkering limited amounts. I've only done things like setup Minecraft servers with custom map gen codes and configs, or Don't Starve Together servers (both remote and local, like dedicated modded beta ones, super fun :D). Just very basic stuff. I actually just started Pathfinder, first character build and was having a little difficulty figuring out some of the stats and came across PCGen and really love it. I am going to have to get into doing some customizing to do my character anyway. Not knowing anything about the game, I ended up with a Grippli Shaman for my first build lol. It's been interesting, but I am hooked.I am not sure how or if I could really help considering the game and the program are both brand new to me. I love crunching numbers though, fast at data entry. I can pretty much figure out whatever program I try pretty quick. Most familiar with programs like OpenOffice and SciTE. I like figuring out problems. I guess if you had something easy but tedious or something you could throw it my way.
On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:23 PM, "Joseph Bryant hiucimon@yahoo.com [pcgen]" <pcgen@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
I have a house with 4 adults that are D&D and Pathfinder players and GM's that would be interested in helping with data entry, and I am an expert Java programmer myself with some expertise with FOP (if I can get some pointers on the structure of the code for PCGen).
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 9:57 PM, nylanfs@yahoo.com [pcgen] <pcgen@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Have you noticed that the rate of new books going into each version of PCGen has been slowing? Well there is a reason for that, most notably there is a new formula system coming that will require an overhaul of ALL the data, by hand. This will put a big strain on the remaining data team volunteers.
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> And I did just say "remaining", you see as an all volunteer project people come and people go, some because RL calls them away and their free time evaporates. Other times people need to step back before they become burned out.
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> Andrew Maitland is the current Data Lead and will be handling the brunt of the formula changeover, but he is currently holding down a full time-job, going back to school and has family, He is rapidly reaching the burn-out point and plans to step back some and help train the new data volunteers once the new formula system is in place.
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> What does this mean for you? Have you ever wanted to help the project but found the data intimidating? Here's your chance to get some one-on-one assistance with Andrew and help out your favorite project at the same time.
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> We are looking for some people to help with the project. We have multiple positions that could use some help, these include (but aren't limited to,) customer support (answer new user's questions mostly), people to help with data entry or deal with data bug fixes, of course we always need people for the Code Team which is the under-the-hood engine of the program.
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