Guildage - Guild Event Management System (live beta)

History of GEMS - a Guild Event Management System / Guild Event Manager System

First version is still very much under development :)

It all started back in the summer of 2005 when a lot of raids were mixed up and people didn't know when and where to do what raid. Back then we used a forum based signup system - and it was impossible to get an overview time and dates - let alone who was signed up and/or off!

This was when I began to see the need of a good system to use for signing up for raids (events).

GEMS was born... but there is still a lot todo ;)

If you have ideas for the system, please check the todo site. I try to list all bugs and feature requests there. Thanks :)

PS: GEMS (Guild Event Management System) is not related to the WoW addon GEM (Guild Event Manager). While the function of the two systems is alike I did not know about GEM till long after I named GEMS let alone build this system. By the look of dates GEMS was not public when the first version of GEM was - but that does not mean he/she was first! ;)

About the author

The system is designed and made by Ni of Paparazzi - born from the late Phoenix Flame. I started building the system when I was in Nordlys - another great guild on Balnazzar - a realm in World of Warcraft. Nordlys had a lot more members, hence it was rarely the same 40 persons raiding together. This was reason enough to have an easy to use sign up system.

UPDATE: I no longer play WoW actively but I still have an open account and play a little to keep close contact with several raiding guilds. This actually seem to be better for the development of GEMS - instead of raiding 5 days a week :)

Check out another site of mine for more WoW stuff.

I also maintain a new Wiki site for setting up Unix servers and services. Find out more at Confighell website.

Backend of the system

Perl modules used

Apache::Session::MySQL
Data::Dumper
DBI::MySQL
Encode
HTML::Mason
LWP::Simple
Mail::CheckUser
Mail::Sendmail
MasonX::Request::WithApacheSession
Text::Aspell
Text::Diff
Time::Format
Time::HiRes
Time::Zone
XML::Simple
...thank you cpan

Other 3rd party libraries

JavaScript Tooltip by Walter Zorn licensed under LGPL
Icons by Tango Desktop Project licensed under Creative Commons
Icons by FAMFAMFAM licnesed under Creative Commons

Check out my Wiki site for install notes used while making the system.

CheckDNS.net - A very useful service to check your domain, DNS, Mail and Webservers

Donations

Any donation is much appriciated and will only speed up the development - and give us an even faster and better service! ;)

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