i also nominate pmb
I'd like to suggest for some points of attention to BU in order to reach the written goals by pmb: Let me quote them:
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Work on and *release* the United Bot (alphas, proofs of concept, anything).
Have more non-HL bots join us. Yeah!
Increase the efficiency of the cooperation between coders through a clever wiki maintenance policy.
Acquire a strong credibility towards other organisms, be them professionals (game development companies), associations (United Admins) or websites (HL2.net, RTCW community, CS-Nation, whatever).
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First point, the 'concept' works already ofcourse. We need just more interfaces. Personally i lack time to get things really going, its just snippets of time i use to get stuff together... sometimes i spend to much time on coding and then i have a big problem with school again. Argh.
Second point, about non-hl bots, see my point "PR"
Third point, this is ofcourse some kind 'extra time investment'. Its not bad, but i experience the wiki as a time consuming thing; this is due the fact you have to code stuff first or work on it to understand and then take extra time to write it down in an understandable manner..
I don't say its bad, because i love the purpose of wiki, i just don't see too much of contribution. I have seen though on
http://www.hl2coding.com that their wiki was updated in very nice written tutorials. (also relates to my point PR)
4th point (
also PR point!):
I suggest we have some sort of "PR" team. As for myself i try to get in touch with these sites, but its tough. Very tough. I also think we should have some sort of 'website', or something different then our frontpage right now. When entering the bots-united site, i'd see all the stuff we have about BU itself on the left, and all the bots on the right. In the middle you see news from all bots (websites?). I think it would be great to see how news would be taken from a forum, so one single forum for each bot to post news on.
Either way, it should be a bit more 'catchy' if you know what i mean. Also, before we can gain any 'extra popularity', we need something new to show. Ie, when the United Bot alpha gets released, and works on HL1/HL2 , etc. It will be more interesting, because it is 'one of the first HL2' bots. Since HL2 has lots of popularity, it comes down to BU. (like the old days, with POD, etc).