{"id":18200,"date":"2015-06-08T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=18200"},"modified":"2015-06-08T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T22:06:57","slug":"its-time-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/its-time-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Time For A Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in 2008, not long after I started mountain biking, The MMBA<\/a> was looking for a volunteer to help fix its\u00a0poorly performing website. While fairly new to the mountain biking community I had a good deal of experience with providing reliable small-scale web hosting; lessons learned from running my personal site, nuxx.net<\/a>\u00a0and a few other virtual hosts for friends. Through\u00a0my friends Nick and Marty Shue, whom I had casually known since back in the BBS days, I began\u00a0leading volunteer work on the site, resolving the main performance issue, migrating it to\u00a0my server, and eventually expanding its capabilities.<\/p>\n

It was the perfect combination of my interests:\u00a0computers, mountain biking, and providing a useful service to other online users.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With help from numerous people, including Rob Ritzenhein<\/a> doing Joomla work for the original main site, Nick and Marty working through the migration planning (the photo to the right was taken during the site migration itself) and handling some forum moderation, the transition went smoothly and it’s been stalwart ever since. I was even fortunate enough to work with\u00a0Jeff Lau<\/a>\u00a0who\u00a0wrote an incredibly impressive\u00a0Trail Guide<\/a>\u00a0whose simplicity and usefulness has no current parallel. Many other volunteers\u00a0contributed to the content; writing posts, submitting trail guide updates, and generally tweaking content.<\/p>\n

While the MMBA has gone through some radical changes, working to redefine itself as the chapters moved\u00a0into the IMBA Chapter Program<\/a>, the MMBA website site, particularly\u00a0the\u00a0forum<\/a>\u00a0and Trail Guide<\/a>, has\u00a0remained the top source for information on mountain biking across Michigan.<\/p>\n

Through this time I gained tremendous experience learning how to\u00a0assure reliability of production systems, the political parts of working with others, guiding volunteers as they work on projects they are passionate about,\u00a0and wrangling problem users in online communities among other things. I also met countless wonderful people, made some great friends, and even managed to make a few people hate me.<\/p>\n

After seven years I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on.\u00a0Over the next few months I will be working with the MMBA Board of Directors<\/a>\u00a0and Byte Productions, LLC<\/a> of Traverse City to smoothly migrate the site (including the forum) to a\u00a0new home. Once complete my server will be back to hosting my personal sites and a few small pages for friends, stuff that I consider much less critical. Then I’ll have time to figure out what to do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2008, not long after I started mountain biking, The MMBA was looking for a volunteer to help fix its\u00a0poorly performing website. While fairly…<\/p>\n

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