Did BuzzU die?

[kmcclary]

Originally posted by Joel J.
"After many hosting problems we are poised to be back soon." Those are the words of Buzz.. Now lets smile for the suit!

All RIGHT!

I'm glad they're going to be doing it again!

OOC, Did they give you any idea on a date for when they expect it to be up again?

- Keith

[Joe Ross]

The message that Joel quoted is from their main page, http://www.buzzrobotics.org.

IIRC, they've been having hosting trouble for over a year.

It wouldn't be very hard to duplicate what buzzu does at another site, however, there are privacy issues with exchanging the existing data.

[Katie Atiyeh]

Hi

Thank you for showing your interest and concern in BuzzU. Currently, our websites are down. They will be back and operating in the near future. As of right now we need to get our web space worked out, and we’re working with students and mentors to do that. I can not give you an exact date, but it should be relatively soon. We aren’t dying, we just have a lot to work out, like always we will still continue to provide our help with FIRST Aid, gracious professionalism and all that we believe we stand for. Thank you very much, sorry about the delay, and good luck to all.

-Katie Atiyeh
Buzz 175

[kmcclary]

Originally posted by Katie Atiyeh
Thank you for showing your interest and concern in BuzzU. Currently, our websites are down. They will be back and operating in the near future. [...] I can not give you an exact date, but it should be relatively soon. We aren’t dying, we just have a lot to work out [...]

I'm sorry to see that after a couple of years, www.BuzzU.org still seems to be down. (Darn!)

Did it ever come up under another address? If so, please tell us all where we can find it!

I hope you guys can bring back the mentoring database soon. Our team (for one) could sure use your help in finding some more Ann Arbor MI area FIRST-savvy college students who still wish to be involved in the program to come and join our team.

Thanks!

- Keith

[patrickrd]

Why not move the service to ChiefDelphi? I think it has been down long enough, that the people that originally set it up at Buzz must have graduated from the team or moved onto other things.

All it takes really is a single MySQL table and a relatively simple php script. I'm sure both MySQL and PHP are already installed on ChiefDelphi for these forums. I suspect even if Brandon doesn't have time to set up the script, there are plenty of you out there who know PHP, and could get it basically functional and send to Brandon. I would have been able to do it a couple years ago but my php/mysql skills have been quickly deteriorating over that time.

I think this is an ideal place (aside from on FIRST's site directly) to put a BuzzU-like system up, since there are so many visitors. Unfortunately, it probably will be hard to recover the original BuzzU list... but maybe can be retrieved from that web history site? (I forget what the URL is).

Anyway, let me know what you think. In my opinion the BuzzU system is too useful not to have working. It helped me make some contacts to get team 639 started 3 years ago.

- Patrick

[Erin Rapacki]

I wanted to wait until the sight was ready but...

Understanding how valuable BuzzU was and seeing that it was down, I had plans to incorporate a similar system onto my new NU-TRONS website called "FIRST College Connect."

Because we only need one centralized website for this service, I am making sure no one else has gone ahead to make this system work for as of now... but if BuzzU is brought back up, I'll probably mesh all the information together so if one website has problems, there will be a backup system going.

The sight would be ready by November, and I'm using it to get my team more involved in the overall FIRST program.

Thanks,


ByE

erin