RPG Bloggers Hand-off Announcement
Dave Chalker
if you count the Indian spam), we have made our decision over who will
be taking over the RPG Bloggers Network.
It is... Duane O'Brien of http://aterribleidea.com/
Duane's proposal was chosen unanimously among the 4 of us after a
hidden vote and much discussion. His proposal was based on ideas that
we ourselves had wanted to implement to provide a better user
experience for both bloggers and readers, with the coding expertise to
back it up. It keeps our vision for the RPGBN intact while moving it
forward in new directions. It makes the transition process a smooth
and easy one for all the members who don't keep up with all of our
workings to suddenly find that everything had changed and more was
expected of them. Additionally, it was a good compromise between
several of the other proposals, incorporating better technologies to
make it run more smoothly and involving the community to a much
greater extent to give members a bigger say. Overall, we were very
impressed with the proposal: I know I'm being vague here, but I want
to leave all the details for Duane to reveal himself so I don't steal
his thunder or get anything wrong.
Over the next few weeks, ideally sooner rather than later, we'll be
working with Duane to move everything to his servers and hand off all
the assets of RPGBN, and trying to have as smooth a transition as
possible (though you may notice some hiccups and downtime.) We'll be
passing along our suggestions based on our experiences running the
network and considering his proposal, and I assume he'll begin a
dialog with everyone here for your input going forward.
For me personally, I have offered my services to Duane as an adviser
but am stepping back majorly from any of the day to day operations or
leadership. I had a few arrangements in the works that I would like to
see come to fruition to help RPG bloggers, yet I don't want to step on
any toes going forward. Phil, Danny, and Graham also are deciding on
their own future involvement level.
As many of you know, RPG Bloggers Network was initially my baby,
starting as a feed aggregator named GATO in a subdirectory of Critical
Hits, that turned into a way to connect with a few of the other blogs
that were all linking to each other anyway (starting with Chatty DM
and Critical Ankle Bites, then expanding to our other blog friends
Stupid Ranger, Dungeonmastering, Geek's Dream Girl, Uncle Bear, Living
Dice, and more). Then we opened it up to the world, advertising on our
own sites and wherever we could, and it just exploded from there.
So I can't help but be a little sad to be stepping away from it all,
given how it all grew and given the many, many hours of work I (and
all of my esteemed board members and great friends) put into it.
Still, I think it's going to be for the best overall, both for me
personally and the network, putting it into the hands of Duane to take
it to the next level, and I look forward to seeing where it all goes
next.
If anyone needs to reach me directly, you can feel free to email me
(da...@critical-hits.com), tweet me (@DaveTheGame), or visit me on my
first RPG blogging love that Danny and I intend to devote more time
to, Critical-hits.com.
And one final thing, I cannot thank enough my good friends who have
done so much on this project: Danny, Phil, and Graham, you guys are
awesome. I look forward to working with you all on the Next Big Thing,
as well as with the many great people I've met through the network.
Thank you all!
Sincerely,
Dave Chalker
Co-Founder and Former Executive Director, RPG Bloggers Network
Ed Healy
Love you, Dave. *kisses*
--
Ed Healy
http://ephealy.com/
(253) 777-0296
2009/11/1 Dave Chalker <da...@critical-hits.com>:
Chris Tregenza
Congratulations Duane.
We are all looking forward to hearing your plans for the network.
Chris
Chuck
Hope to hear more news and tidbits soon. Sounds like the future still
holds some neat stuff.
On Nov 1, 9:22 am, Chris Tregenza <ch...@6d6Fireball.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Duane.
>
> We are all looking forward to hearing your plans for the network.
>
> Chris
>
> Dave Chalker wrote:
> > Thank you all for bearing with us. After going through 6 proposals (7
> > if you count the Indian spam), we have made our decision over who will
> > be taking over the RPG Bloggers Network.
>
A Terrible Idea
will give a little more insight into what's down the line. But you
can be assured that the RPGN isn't going anywhere.
Stuart Broz
Duane - if there's anything I can do to help, just let me know.
-Stuart
Stuart Robertson
:)
Stuart
Graham Poole
And also considered making the joke myself, so I can't really fault you for it.
Graham
Duane O'Brien
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Ideas are good things to have even if they are old.
greywulf
I look forward to seeing what you do with the old place :D
G.
Zachary Houghton
GOLDtheSeries
& Graham - I'm sad to see you go as leaders of this here thing we
love, but I'm excited to see what Duane is able to do with this next
phase of the RPGBN.
And, Dave & the gang - thank you for doing everything you have to make
this transition transparent and relatively painless. A few weeks ago
it looked like this could get very ugly indeed, and that we might lose
the RPGBN (and the community around it) altogether. That the network
came out the other side, strengthened (I think) by the addition of the
Role Play Media Network (thanks, Berin), is a credit to the (now
former) leadership, and everyone who voiced ideas and worked together
to find a good solution.
Those of y'all who know me know that RPG blogging is not my first
priority (GOLD is), and that I'm not even an official member of the
RPGBN (tho Dave was kind enough to link to GOLD on the RPGBN front
page). But I'm a rabid consumer of what the network has to offer, and
I sure am glad to know that it will continue.
Thanks again to everyone involved, and good luck to Duane.
-David
Creator, GOLD
www.goldtheseries.com
can you take the hits?
On Nov 1, 7:09 am, Dave Chalker <d...@critical-hits.com> wrote:
> Thank you all for bearing with us. After going through 6 proposals (7
> if you count the Indian spam), we have made our decision over who will
> be taking over the RPG Bloggers Network.
>