If someone wants to take on this project and it's approved by the IRTC 
administrator, I can extract the data from the last version of the IRTC 
that was running in order to provide a history of the IRTC rounds.

Ii can attest that it's a lot of work beyond just the initial development.

David Buck


Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Park wrote:
> 
>> I have been programming ColdFusion for business applications for 15
>> years and would love to take over the IRTC and host the site for free
>> as well. Please contact me.
> 
> Thank you for your offer, I'm sure it is appreciated by the community.
> Regarding an official statement, Chris Cason is probably the best person
> to contact. It's possible he will read this post, or you could try to
> reach him via the pov team contact email given at the end of
> 
>   http://www.povray.org/povlegal.html
> 
> They might prefer not to "give away" the IRTC, though; the last attempt
> at resurrection was still hosted on the povray servers as far as I know.
> I'm not sure if this would be a problem for you.
> 
>> All I would need is a list of services needed for the site,
>> requirements, etc.. This can be completed in a couple of weeks if not
>> sooner since this is actually very simple programming to me.
> 
> I know you have professional experience, but do not underestimate the
> project you'd embark upon. If you do, it will only lead to frustration
> for everyone involved (again).
> 
> First of all, in contrast to a commercial project, it is much harder
> to even get a list of requirements. There is no single customer who pays
> and decides. You can look back at older threads in this group to find
> out about some consensus the community arrived at during earlier
> discussion regarding desired IRTC behavior.
> 
> People will try to access the site using the most curious combinations
> of OS and browser, and you can less easily ignore them because they make
> up a sizable proportion of the crowd here ;)
> 
> Also, hacking together a working system is only part of the solution.
> It should be possible for someone else to administer the site in case
> other things pop up in your life with priority (also, to reduce the
> dependency on administrator time, a high degree of automation in
> the submission and voting process is desirable).
> 
> Special requirements that have been specified in the past are the
> ability to browse the site without being logged in and to be able
> to have (session-independent) bookmarkability / direct URLs.
> 
> Otherwise, I suppose you are familiar with the old IRTC and maybe
> have seen the intermediate resurrection (you can probably get the
> smalltalk code for that from David Buck to get an idea of the
> system even though you would likely not be using the code).
> 
> Finally, this post is not intended to discourage or deter you. Just
> be sure you know what you are in for before committing yourself. I can
> only speak for myself but your offer is most welcome, thanks again!

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