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Title: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: mouser on January 08, 2007, 01:47 AM: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club

(https://www.donationcoder.com/codyclub/codyclub_156x156.png)

Cody, our rambunctious little bird mascot, has decided to form his own club and he wants you to join it!

What's it all about? Mainly it's about being good internet citizens and active DC participants, and working as a team.

In each of our bi-monthly newsletters (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=63.0) you'll have a small assignment or two - like finding a freeware author you like and emailing them a thank you, or participating in a forum poll.

As a Cody Club member, we ask that you perform the Cody Club newsletter task (or else invent one of your own if you object to the one we've chosen) in each newsletter.

Sometimes we will be able to make our voices heard by acting together at the same time when a new newsletter is released, so be sure to do your tasks on time!

Occasionally club members will get a little treat, like a postcard in the mail, or a Cody Club iron on, or access to a secret website page or present. Only Cody knows for sure! We'll have a form later for club members to fill in with their address if they want to receive such mail from Cody. And of course you'll get a special badge under your name in the forum to show you are part of the Cody elite.

To catch up on previous and current Cody Club assignments, just read the newsletters (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=63). You have to keep up with all the tasks to stay a club member in good standing!
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Post by: app103 on January 08, 2007, 01:53 AM: Cool! Can't wait to start ;D
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Post by: tinjaw on January 08, 2007, 02:45 AM: Great idea mouser. :greenclp:
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Post by: jgpaiva on January 08, 2007, 04:26 AM: Man.. This is cool!
Now i need to make a decent post on the "let's get to know each other" thread ;)
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: momonan on January 08, 2007, 04:42 AM: Okay, how will you know we have completed our tasks and are eligible for the badge? Self-reporting? If so, I'm in. 8)
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: momonan on January 08, 2007, 04:53 AM: For anyone contemplating making (or changing) an avatar, there's a feature on here that I discovered by accident. In case you don't know about it, here it is. Click on "view the supporter yearbook" at the top right of this page. Then click on the bar for "avatars." There you can see a display of every avatar that is in use. It's a beautiful sight. Also, you can see how many others may already be using the one you are thinking of choosing because it is so uniquely "you," so you can maybe choose something else. :)

Someday, I'd love to see a contest of the original avatars.
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Post by: Ruffnekk on January 08, 2007, 05:17 AM: Okay so where do we sign up to become a member of the club?
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Post by: Josh on January 08, 2007, 05:44 AM: How much does this free club cost?
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Post by: Lashiec on January 08, 2007, 05:56 AM: How much does this free club cost?
-Josh (January 08, 2007, 05:44 AM)

;D

Good idea, mouser. I'll sign up immediately... after finishing the exams in February :(
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Post by: CodeTRUCKER on January 08, 2007, 06:46 AM: Yes it is free*

* plus 6.95 for shipping and handling.
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: mouser on January 08, 2007, 11:02 AM: This will be a completely self-reporting thing - you will be on your own honor to say whether you have been living up to your Cody Club responsibilities. The form to signify you are in Cody's Club will be available soon - until then just act accordingly.

ps.
One of the tasks for Cody Club in the latest newsletter was fill in a short biography. You can see under a forum posters avatar image above a red little note icon if there is a biography configured. Some of you Cody Clubbers still haven't set your biographies!
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Post by: cranioscopical on January 08, 2007, 12:31 PM: I'm in.
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Post by: Deozaan on January 08, 2007, 12:43 PM: You mean I had to suffer through two weeks of not knowing what the exclusive Cody Club was just to find out it was a secret message saying "Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine"? :tellme: :-\

Just kidding! ;D ;D

Sounds good. I want in too! I'll need time to fill in my biography. I've lived a long and adventurous life! :P
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: mouser on January 08, 2007, 12:45 PM: We will try to think of some more fun things to give to Cody Club members. Maybe we boost their chances of winning in the drawings a bit 8)

ps.
You mean I had to suffer through two weeks of not knowing what the exclusive Cody Club was just to find out it was a secret message saying "Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine"?
for anyone who doesn't get this reference - its from a christmas movie where the kid listens to this old time secret agent radio show and gets a secret message and gets super excited and when he decodes it finds out to his complete dissapointment that it's an advertisement for ovaltine.
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Post by: TucknDar on January 08, 2007, 12:58 PM: I'm in! Already an avatar configured, but I'll do the other assignments ASAP.

Excellent idea!

edit: DONE!
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Post by: KenR on January 08, 2007, 07:18 PM: Count me in.

Ken
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Post by: CodeTRUCKER on January 09, 2007, 02:37 AM: I might want to participate. Will I have to be interviewed by the head bird?
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Post by: app103 on January 09, 2007, 04:28 AM: I thought at first all the assignments were done, when I took a quick look at my biography and realized it needed a little updating.

I had a birthday recently and had to change the age...and a few other things.

So now I am done. :D
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Post by: dhuser on January 09, 2007, 08:56 AM: To be a member, do you have to complete every assigned activity? I will complete many of the assignments... Nice badge with Cody. :)

-EDIT: Added Biography

dhuser
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Post by: allen on January 09, 2007, 04:52 PM: Wouldn't you know it, I've been a member all my life . . . or, at least, already completed the assignment(s). I think. I'm not willing to check the introduce yourself thread, I hate reading things I wrote previously.
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: mouser on January 09, 2007, 08:54 PM: To be a member, do you have to complete every assigned activity? I will complete many of the assignments..

You'll be on your honor to do most of them in order to qualify, but we aren't going to be crazy about it.
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 11, 2007, 03:31 AM: Already an avatar configured
-TucknDar (January 08, 2007, 12:58 PM)

:D
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: mouser on January 11, 2007, 03:45 AM: Yeah but perry you havent filled out your biography field (see no red note icon under your avatar).
All those missing one can fill it out at the bottom of this page here:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;sa=forumProfile

That also goes for dhuser, Lashiec, KenR
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 11, 2007, 04:51 AM: Yeah but perry you havent filled out your biography field (see no red note icon under your avatar).
-mouser (January 11, 2007, 03:45 AM)

Yeah, sorry: i just had to watch a DVD my son brought home :-[ Hoodwinked (http://www.hoodwinkedthemovie.com/) Gotta give it 5 out of 10... maybe

Edit: Done!
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: Perry Mowbray on January 11, 2007, 05:20 AM: You'll be on your honor to do most of them in order to qualify, but we aren't going to be crazy about it.
-mouser (January 09, 2007, 08:54 PM)

Actually, what do you think about using the badge:
(https://www.donationcoder.com/codyclub/codyclub_156x156.png)
as an icon under the avatar for Club Members?

What's the possability of being able to then access related posts in the Cody Club forum by clicking on the icon?? Maybe filter the list to that specific author??

I'm thinking one of the neat things about this is that there will be many different ways of completing the tasks, which will give others lots of ideas of how to be "good internet citizens"??

- Perry
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Post by: Lashiec on January 11, 2007, 12:51 PM: Actually, what do you think about using the badge as an icon under the avatar for Club Members?
-Perry Mowbray (January 11, 2007, 05:20 AM)

That's a good idea.

That also goes for dhuser, Lashiec, KenR
-mouser (January 11, 2007, 03:45 AM)

Yep, I know. I'm still thinking what should I write about me...
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Post by: mouser on January 11, 2007, 02:28 PM: the badges are already created by hamradio, i'm just waiting until a few assignments before we add them to users profiles and in the little icon lists as you say. it's a good question what it should link to.. i'm not sure now.. suggestions welcome!
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Post by: Ruffnekk on January 11, 2007, 02:33 PM: Well you could link it to the Awards badges page just like the other badges and then provide a link on that page to this thread, explaining people they can get that badge too if they fulfill their tasks as well...
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Post by: KenR on January 11, 2007, 08:43 PM: I'm sure that anything the group agrees on will be fine with me.

Ken
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Post by: dhuser on January 11, 2007, 09:03 PM: Updated by Biography...

About the Badges:
Maybe you could place them in the Awards section and display it in the user information on the left of the post, like the programming school badges, like what Ruffnekk suggested.

dhuser
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Post by: Gothi[c] on January 11, 2007, 09:06 PM: So here it is then,... it's all revealed....

CODY'S PLOT FOR WORLD DOMINATION!

Sure he'll start out with simple assignments, but soon it start going along the lines of 'take over your local government'. I always knew that little bird was up to something.
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Post by: Ruffnekk on January 12, 2007, 01:29 AM: :D ;D :D @ Gothi[c]

I think I saw Bush on CNN wearing a Cody button...
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Post by: pyr8 on January 12, 2007, 03:19 PM: Anything that makes on line members of a community talk is good for me !!
Great idea!
Pyr8 :D
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Post by: tinjaw on April 23, 2007, 07:49 AM: Can somebody please keep a running list of the tasks posted together in a convenient place?
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Post by: mouser on April 23, 2007, 08:34 AM: i think what we should have is a kind of list where you can check which tasks you have completed, with checkboxes or something. i know the online task management tools have features like this (and a lot more of course). are there any task management online services which make it really easy for a "group leader" to set up a task and have lots of users be able to check off when they've accomplished them?

or maybe we have a php coder who is willing to whip one up as a forum mod; just make a basic script and i can write the part that gets the users forum name for your db table data.
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Post by: Perry Mowbray on April 23, 2007, 09:04 AM: I think the real power behind this type of thing is in the ingenuity and imagination of the DC community. I get amazed at how many different and creative ways we all get to the answer... and I think that's what I'd like to be able to browse through. It's a wonderful way to spread ideas, so not just that we've completed a task, but how (or where or what) we've completed it. As a compiled list, I think the benefit would be much greater than the sum of the parts.

So for that reason, I think it'd be best if the "results" of each task can be viewed together with how they're fullfilled by each member... but also, it'd be nice to have a member view so that you could view how a member has worked through their tasks. It's another interesting view into who we are. Maybe that's where the results are edited (in your Member profile)?

Question: we're doing this now, but down the line a wee bit new members will want to join and run through the tasks. They'd want to be able to be added to the list and complete the tasks running up to the present tasks. So their names get added to the bottom of each task. Is that how you see it??

I'm guessing that the badge could link to a member page with their listing of tasks? And just like the "Donate to Author" link, you could have a "Net Citizen" link to that page that you could display on your web page??
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Post by: dhuser on April 23, 2007, 01:42 PM: A checklist would be a very good idea...
An Idea- after a certin number of newsletters/time, if a user has completed every task, he/she will receive 1-2 Donation Credits.

Just an idea...
dhuser
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: mouser on April 25, 2007, 02:18 AM: i passed the idea by cody but he says he's not giving up his coins unless we pry them from his cold dead beak.

however he did say he might be willing to send some fun postcards and maybe give away a mug or tshirt or other present occasionally. ;D
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Post by: mouser on May 03, 2007, 08:56 PM: Cody has informed me he has some gifts to send to his Cody Club members who have completed all tasks.. but before i can send them i need a helper script.

Any php coders want to write a fun little helper script for cody club?
Contact me at [email protected] if so.

The idea of the script is to list all forum members who have completed all tasks, and let users mark checkboxes for each task they have completed.

I can handle all the integration with forum to retrieve users name, so the script should:
1) be called with a person's user id #
2) read a text file and show an entry for each line in the file.
3) show a list of all users who have complete all tasks
4) present a form to the user with checkboxes for each task (line in file), which has each item they have already completed with a check in it.
5) let them modify the form and re-submit.
6) should use a mysql database to store data.
7) should be compatible with php4.

bonus 1 - write a function that automatically will return the % of tasks that a given user # has completed. this will be used to show badges for cody club in member profiles.
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Post by: Deozaan on May 03, 2007, 08:59 PM: i passed the idea by cody but he says he's not giving up his coins unless we pry them from his cold dead beak.
-mouser (April 25, 2007, 02:18 AM)

I can make a Flash game in which that will be very possible. . . >:D >:D

:hanged: :rip: :two: :two: :two:
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: mouser on May 05, 2007, 09:33 PM: Great News!!

Allen has started working on Codys Club Task Tracker!

:greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp:
Title: Re: Cody's (Internet Citizens) Club Begins!
Post by: Perry Mowbray on June 08, 2008, 02:07 AM: Great News!!

Allen has started working on Codys Club Task Tracker!

:greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp:
-mouser (May 05, 2007, 09:33 PM)

What ever happened to this? :-\

After mouser's comment over here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13566.msg115686#msg115686) about "good web citizens" I wondered if Cody may like to enumerate what he thinks makes a good web citizen?
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Post by: mouser on June 08, 2008, 08:32 AM: I should start adding "Cody Club Assignments" to the newsletters again..
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Post by: lanux128 on June 09, 2008, 11:33 PM: yes, we've been without one for far too long. :Thmbsup: