f! Blog archive for January 2010

A new year, a new decade. Welcome all. For FFindr this will definitely be a special one: I'll be able to spent significantly more time on the project, and this will surely yield fruit. On the menu: the partnership with Junior Worlds and a special version for smartphones like the iPhone. Besides this are many interesting things that first need some evaluation, but which are likely to find there way into FFindr sooner or later...

The work of more than six weeks went live last night! Major under-the-hood modifications make this release the third version of FFindr, after the initial launch on 17 September 2007 and the relaunch in December 2008. Basically the whole data structure of events and links got remodelled. I won't bother you with technical details, let me only talk about the benefits of this re-factoring session: advanced league management. Leagues can now include several league days with...

I am glad to announce the partnership of FFindr and the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF). The home page as well as the events page on WFDF.org feature now events delivered from FFindr, making it yet another website that relies on FFindr to power their event calendar. "I am really happy that WFDF and FFindr are collaborating, FFindr seems dedicated to producing useful services for the frisbee community, and we have plenty more projects that we...

Rodrigue, initiator of Discs for Africa, recently reported what happened to all the discs he collected over the last months: they mainly went to Africa! Vincent and Rodrigue handing over discs in Bamako, Mali. © Rodrigue The project does not stop with handing over discs. Thanks to Vincent, a French volunteer living and working in Mali for a couple of month, street kids also got an introduction to the sport of Ultimate Frisbee. His primary goal for...