football.db in the New Year 2015 - Any Wishes? Suggestions? Ideas? Comments?

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

You're invited to post any wishes, suggestions, ideas, comments for
the football.db and friends. Anything you want to see changed, added,
removed, polished in 2015?

Let us know here on the forum / mailing list.

Cheers.

[Joe Kampschmidt]

I will be in Europe next year in the Spring for a while. Can I come buy you a beer for all the work you do?

Joe

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,
Thanks for your kind words and - of course - all your contributions
(sql views, docs, build-shell, etc.). Keep it up. I'm in Austria,
Vienna - lots of beer available ;-) - you can get on-site brewed
"American"-style craft beer at the 1516 Brewing Co., for example [1]
or "real" Budweiser from Budweis (just an hour and 1/2 west of Vienna)
in the Schweizerhaus biergarten [2].

Cheers.

[1] www.1516brewingcompany.com
[2] www.schweizerhaus.at

[Kevin Ndung'u]

Hello,

New Year Greetings. 

I wasn't aware that there was a mailing list (I was not keen enough) and submitted a suggestion at https://github.com/openfootball/players/issues/4

The basic idea I wish to suggest is that whether this data could be converted into formats that are easily parsed from a program

e.g. Formats such as TOML or YAML. 

This could readily enhance its usage and avoiding the need for manual parsing.

What are your ideas on this?

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

Prosit 2015! Thanks for your ideas and comments. Welcome.
The idea of football.db is that once you have the data in SQLite
(or PostgreSQL etc.) you can export it to any format you like (e.g.
TOML, YAML, JSON, CSV, etc.). You're more than welcome to share you
export scripts and formats.

For "mass" imports there's also the football.csv org / project. Cheers.

[1] github.com/footballcsv