Worlds 09 Berlin needs your programming skills!

[MrMeebles]

As one of the organizers for the world footbag championships 2009 in Berlin I'm developing a computer judging system. So far it is capable of recording scores from multiple networked computers, generating and displaying live rankings based on those scores and exporting the finished round to an Excel spread sheet. Eventually for world's this software may be used for the entire freestyle side of the tournament, for creating seeds to making pools, judging and recording results.

It is comprised of a simple http server written in Python and a client side ajax interface. The server runs on one computer and all the client computers, used by judges and by the director for controlling the server are all done through a web browser interface. The software has been written from the ground up to be easily translatable with full character support (currently we have tested English, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish). We have had one beta test in Berlin that went perfectly, but the first real test at Zocha Jam was undone by a crappy router.

It turns out I'm not going to have as much time to work on this as I though, so I need some help. If you have experience programming with python, especially if you have networking experience or have used the BaseHTTPServer module, or if you are an experienced (preferably professional) web programer and want to help out, please contact me. I also need people to test this, so if you are running a tournament soon and want to give it a try, please also contact me. Either PM or posting here is fine. Thanks,

-Andrew McCargar

[krawallier]

BUMP!