VRL announcements
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Hello all in the international SIM-community!
We don’t know if the news has reached the international community, but the old Administration team of VRL (Virtuaalinen Ratsastajainliitto) quit on 8th of May. To ensure the continuation of VRL, we have assembled a new team to continue the great work the old administration has done over the years. Down below is information on the new administration and upcoming changes regarding VRL.
From now on, we’ll be using this topic to translate any newsletters we put out to keep the international community up to date, so feel free to bookmark this topic to keep up with VRL.
Forming the New Administration
We’ve held a meeting on Tuesday, 4th of June to form the new Administration for VRL. The meeting was organised rather quickly to ensure that we can keep things running smoothly.We have updated some of the roles inside the Administration, below are the teams working under VRL.
Associations Team Registration Team Communications Team Technical Team Ainu (VRL-13283) Lithy (VRL-07127) Dimma (VRL-08204) Dimma (VRL-08204) Manta (VRL-15160) Sabo (VRL-09334) Premlin (VRL-12167) Kirsiina (VRL-05196) Sartza (VRL-11260) Taciturn (VRL-12909) Elisa (VRL-06066) Elisa (VRL-06066) Juulia (VRL-12454) Ansqqu (VRL-00428) Sartza (VRL-11260) Tilli (VRL-00406) Mr. January (VRL-13876) Associations Team (Toimintatiimi) - in charge of the working with the Finnish subdivisions (such as dressage subdivision, breed associations etc.) as well as any International Events
Registration Team (Rekisteritiimi) - in charge of updating the website and running the registration process of new members, horses, breeders etc.
Communications Team (Viestintätiimi) - in charge of communication between VRL and the community, updating the official social media, administering the discord channel (check out the link to join below) and updating the Finnish SIM-horse Wiki.
Technical Team (Tekninen tiimi) - in charge of updating and creating new code on the website, programming and visuals of the official website. This team includes the payment manager who is in charge of collecting money and paying for the website and keeping track of the money involved in VRL.Updating VRL
To be frank, the current system VRL runs on is extremely pricey. Thus we have decided to start with updating the system and engine VRL depends on. The process will start on FIRST OF JULY and will continue for at least a month. This means that for at least ALL of JULY, 1.7.-31.7., VRL’s website will be OUT OF ORDER - this could go on longer, if there are any unforeseen surprises along the way.
The update will of course affect all the official associations and subdivisions that have competitions, quality class events etc. as well as people trying to register horses or new memberships with us.The update will start with the closing of the old AWS (Amazon Web Services) account. Right now we don’t have access to the current account, so before the update we will not be able to answer any support requests/tickets.
On top of moving the AWS from the old account to a new one, the technical team will also be updating the current code (Fuel CMS and Codelgniter) to make the site more secure than before.Thank you in advance for your patience during the update.
Forms for sending us feedback and development ideas opened
We appreciate all feedback and development ideas brought to us - now you can do it anonymously here:
Feedback
Ideas and requestsWe’ll check on the forms periodically and go through the feedback and new ideas with the whole administration. There is also a forum on the discord server for any new ideas, they have been separated into different topics, but feel free to add your ideas in #kansainvälisyys (eng. internationality) on the server.
In the future there will be a system for periodically going through any new development ideas and requests with the whole Finnish SIM-community in an open dialogue, but that will be worked on later.Warm regards,
VRL administration teamClick here to join the official server on Discord. Please note most conversations are in Finnish, but we do have a channel for international collaboration #vrls-internationalization-plans. Any new ideas for international work can also be added under #kansainvälisyys under “Foorumi” on the server.
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