Assisting the Webmaster
Yes - I could use some help. Even with the short hours and the great pay (kidding), I wouldn't mind some more assistance with running the site. The job descriptions are below. If you're interested, email me (Rob) at "webmaster at wafc dot org".

As you're reading these descriptions, please remember that this website is vital to the operations of WAFC. We rely on it for registration for spring, summer, and rec league, as well as for the annual Fools tournament. The website has drastically reduced the amount of manual work that volunteers were doing before. To keep the site running smoothly, and to increase what we can do with it, we need volunteers. Or else there is no site, and the other volunteers suffer by having to do everything manually again.

There are two parts to running this site.

1 - Managing Content
The first job is to manage all the content on the site. We delegate this job out to a couple people, usually those who are closely affiliated with the leagues that are running at the time. But I'd be happy to have someone officially in charge of all content. We can always use more content on this site, and it can always be more up-to-date. You only need some basic HTML skills to do this. And some creativity wouldn't hurt. Team pictures, game pictures, even videos (of ultimate frisbee, that is) would be fun to add. If this sounds like your kind of thing, let me know!

2 - Running the Site
The second job is more technical. It involves actually running the site - having full access to the server and all that entails. More interestingly, it also involves the technical aspects of managing online registration, both for leagues and the Fools tournament, and loading all of the data into the database for teams, their schedules, and captain logins. The software's all written for doing this, but there's some work to maintaining and running it, and there's of course always room for new features (the site's been a little stagnant for a couple years in terms of new features).

You'll need some software experience for this. The site is written in Java. It's built using Spring and Hibernate, and both JSP's and Velocity are used for generating the HTML. If those things mean anything to you, you'd be a good candidate for the job. If you write Java for a living as a software engineer, then you'd be a good fit for this. It can be a resume booster too - I use all of those technologies on my job, and Spring and Hibernate in particular are valuable open-source technologies to have on your resume.

Also, I won't lie to you - my goal would be to eventually transfer all control over to the person interested in doing this. Managing the site isn't really a two-person job. It's busy during registration periods, but it's pretty quiet the rest of the year, as the league management stuff runs itself (or rather, the captains run it by entering all the data in). So I'd want to gradually shift responsibilites over to this person in the hopes that they would eventually want to be the webmaster in charge of the full site.

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