Nothing to report really, just doing a "state of the pavilion address". I won't be working at all in january, so I'm going to use that entire month to work on the pavilion. I'm going to list exactly what I have planned for january, along with the rest of december.
December
First batch of contest reviews before 31st
Chat Room repaired
Drawing Board repaired
Various site-fixes, such as figuring out why the new download menus arent showing up
January
RPG Maker 1 Sprites restored
4 new articles planned
RPG Maker 1 Tutorials
Information pages finished
Contest Section finished with information on every contest the pavilion has ever had
Reviews for every game on the site
Forum enhancements
This is just what I have planned so far. I am always open to suggestions as well.
January presents a few problems as well. I didnt know until a few days ago that I wouldnt be working all month, which means I won't have any money all month. Because of an agreement I reached with former staff member Mikochan after she attacked the site in august she was to pay me a certain amount of cash that would be put in a "pavilion fund" to take care of the site in exchange for me not suing her. As you would expect given the pavilion's atrocious luck in the past, she has managed to skip out on that by moving and not telling anyone where she is. So it remains to be seen if I'll see any of that any time soon. The server was restored after the attack, so thats no problem. The problem lies in the site using Vbulletin.
VBulletin runs on a license system. You can lease it for a year for a heavily reduced price, or get a permanent license that never expires. Guess which one I picked for the pavilion? Our Vbulletin licence runs out on January 29th. The entire site runs on it, so choosing a different forum system is out of the question. So I need to figure out how I'm going to raise either 85 dollars for another leased license, or 160 for a permanent one.
I need suggestions how we can raise money. Ads won't pay fast enough. I've tried selling games, but game stores pay absolute crap if you dont want in-store credit. I'm pretty sick of having to sell off parts of my transformer collection every few weeks as it is, so that's really something I'd like to avoid.
I'm grasping at straws here. I dont want to take in donations, as I'm the guy running the site, I'm supposed to provide for it and take care of this stuff. So if possible, I'd like to hear other ways we could raise the money needed.
December
First batch of contest reviews before 31st
Chat Room repaired
Drawing Board repaired
Various site-fixes, such as figuring out why the new download menus arent showing up
January
RPG Maker 1 Sprites restored
4 new articles planned
RPG Maker 1 Tutorials
Information pages finished
Contest Section finished with information on every contest the pavilion has ever had
Reviews for every game on the site
Forum enhancements
This is just what I have planned so far. I am always open to suggestions as well.
January presents a few problems as well. I didnt know until a few days ago that I wouldnt be working all month, which means I won't have any money all month. Because of an agreement I reached with former staff member Mikochan after she attacked the site in august she was to pay me a certain amount of cash that would be put in a "pavilion fund" to take care of the site in exchange for me not suing her. As you would expect given the pavilion's atrocious luck in the past, she has managed to skip out on that by moving and not telling anyone where she is. So it remains to be seen if I'll see any of that any time soon. The server was restored after the attack, so thats no problem. The problem lies in the site using Vbulletin.
VBulletin runs on a license system. You can lease it for a year for a heavily reduced price, or get a permanent license that never expires. Guess which one I picked for the pavilion? Our Vbulletin licence runs out on January 29th. The entire site runs on it, so choosing a different forum system is out of the question. So I need to figure out how I'm going to raise either 85 dollars for another leased license, or 160 for a permanent one.
I need suggestions how we can raise money. Ads won't pay fast enough. I've tried selling games, but game stores pay absolute crap if you dont want in-store credit. I'm pretty sick of having to sell off parts of my transformer collection every few weeks as it is, so that's really something I'd like to avoid.
I'm grasping at straws here. I dont want to take in donations, as I'm the guy running the site, I'm supposed to provide for it and take care of this stuff. So if possible, I'd like to hear other ways we could raise the money needed.
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