Skatemap Memories

[Burr]

I was checking out the "Skatemap" on this site. It brought back alot of good memories. Heres some food for thought for people skating now.
Listed on the skatemap is a place called "Pipeline bowls". When we first found this place, there was a single radical bowl on the right side. The concrete had "ridges" about 1 inch high from the construction screet.
We spent the better part of 1 week working this bowl with rocks, metal bars, eventually hammers and chisels to make it skateable. Then, we had a great time. Never be afraid to find and "Make" your spot.

Uluwatus was also a place we skated back then. One of the original shredders was a guy named larry Sabate who used to take off way out over the water on the right side. That was the thing to do. ( back then we didnt get air, we did dangerous stuff. Less technical, but still fun. ) He could rip.

My brother was clocked with a volkswagon at 42 mph on mariners ridge. If you go up around the first corner of the hill maybe 100 yards there is an electrical box. This is where he started from that night. ( I also saw many people gribble hard trying to do this.) He rode a rhino chaser with superstoker wheels.

Go try find somthing you can be proud of. Dont spend your day trying to kickflip a curb.

In the drain just below pipeline bowls we used to make carts with skateboard wheels and blaze down the drain starting above the road of the curved tunnel. Insane fun! Try it.

Lets see somthing new!

Signed,
Washed up old guy.
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[special_k]

someone should update the skatemap...

[Robot]

I know we suck... haven't touched the Skatemap for many years now. We removed the "add to the skatemap" link cause we were flooded with submissions. Strange thing is these past 5 years we've probably skated close to 100 parks all documented but not updated.

There are rumors of celebrating 50-50.com's 10th year on the web with some kind of site overhaul - but I think it's unlikely as I would be the one to do it. The way things work out, 10 years ago we all had a lot more free time to do things like updating a website.

Check Bourqui's x-games photos.
http://www.50-50.com/gallery/xgames11

[Burr]

Hey robot,
I wonder if phpbb can give access to "groups" or different "levels" of access. The only way you'll ever keep up is to give the "power to the people". Maybe re-instate the "update skatemap" or even "grow your own" pages. Then grant access to "those who are returning faithful gromets", make it there site. A guy like me would have to participate and earn ability to update and make changes. Then your only job would be to moderate every now and again. Delete somthing and deny access for improper post. maybe 2 minutes a month. However, the site is up to date by those who are skating "now". ( do you still skate everyday?).
I'm really not preaching, I know its a lot of work (tedious). But the true skater spirit is like phpbb....Open Source! Give the power to the gromets to post pics and create there own galleries. If you want to contact me, I'll donate a cgi script that allows creation,managment, of photo galleries.
If you keep all the power, it can only get as big as you can handle. Large Sites have 30-40 people working them and million dollar budgets. Open source handles that for you.
Anyway, obviously I'm an old guy, sorry if I seem high and mighty, its not the intent.
Later,
Burr
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[Robot]

Burr.
We're looking for a decent open source cms solution - but at this point we haven't found a single solution we're happy with. It seems most cms packages lack the control and flexibility we desire. Currently we've automated many sections of the site, but it's time and energy needed to get everything recoded and completely automated. Time and energy we'd all rather spend skating than geeking (I like to think of it as a priority shift with age).

I think the Forums cover a lot of the community needs you mentioned. Most people sign up for some free pic storage place and link pics in the DarkRoom. Obviously things could be done to facilitate changes by the people and throughout more of the site, but again it's the time/skating/geeking ratio.

If you've got some user based voting script to incorporate into our SkateMap we'd appreciate it. Our friends at SkimTheFat know some serious code and they custom built a very cool rating system.

[Burr]

I can dig it! Priorities.

Had you seen "Mambo" as an open source CMS. I have a friend that has been utilizing this package and say's it's great. He's the hockey coach at the ice palace, into IT stuff pretty well. He say's it's pretty easy too.

The CGI script I was mentioning is from a guy named andy angrick.
There site is http://www.cgiscript.net
I mentioned a script he makes called csgallery.
He makes a script called cspoller, which can be used for voting.
Take a look at his site. He provides good demo's of the management side and user side. If you like this for the voting you mentioned, get back to me and I'll provide it to you.

Take it easy. Let me know. Talk to you later.
Burr
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[Robot]

Thanks Burr - yeah we had Mambo running maybe a year ago... it was good but not quite what we were looking for. Should probably run through the list of cms apps again - as things have most likely improved.

Your friend has some nice scripts - but hey... they're not open-source!

Thanks.

[Burr]

Sounds like you've done your homework. I'll leave you alone about the site.

As far as the scripts, I would get you the script you wanted as a gesture to the gods. They're cgi so you can see the source code and I dont think andy minds if you want to change it. ( I could be wrong ) but the offer didnt require you to Buy anything. Just let me know if you like that cspoller and I'll get it for you just to make up for drilling you on a site done well!
Ha ha ha ha!

Another CMS to look at thats "Up to date" with power is "dotnetnuke".
Located at www.asp.net its open source but I think you then get limited to using IIS as your web server. Bummer. Maybe not if you find somone running the .net framework on a unix system, though I think this is asking for trouble (Ok, thats the last time, I promise)

Later.
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[alf]

nerd spam.
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So hard to remember, so quick to forget.

[Robot]