Welcome back to cucbc.org

After a weekend of frantic coding involving late nights/early mornings, a couple of Italians (or more importantly, their bar-sized espresso maker) CUCBC is pleased to present the latest evolution of cucbc.org: v3.0

In addition to a new, cleaner design, we've made some big under-the-hood changes that should result in quicker page loading, better searching, spam-protection for comments, and some general stability improvements.

As previously advertised, CUCBC is looking for people interested in maintaining and developing cucbc.org, the email lists, and everything else IT related for CUCBC.

If you're proficient at the whole website thing, especially with PHP/MySQL (Linux and Drupal experience are an added bonus), and have a real enthusiasm for wanting to be involved with running a medium-sized website, then please get in touch (see below). It is stressed that the most important quality of applicants is enthusiasm, although technical proficiency will be an important factor. Additional factors taken into account include rowing experience (as you will be involved with general CUCBC exec stuff in addition to IT matters) and attitude (you will be very much working as part of a team).

After some discussion, the CUCBC Exec is looking to have a small Web Team (2-3 people) rather than a single webmaster running the website next year.

Dubious fringe benefits of the job include:

1. Your very own cucbc.org email address
2. CV points
3. Free beer (about once a term, courtesy of CUCBC)
4. Warm fuzzy feeling of putting something back into the rowing community
5. Being responsible for a medium-sized website of a recognised organisation

If you'd like to apply, please send an email to webmaster[AT]cucbc.org with the subject line of CUCBC Web Team 2007-8 containing the following information:

1. Name
2. Email address
3. Mobile phone number
4. Boat Club
5. Previous website experience - i.e. details of websites that you have designed/maintained etc with time periods (links to past work would be good)
6. Previous rowing experience - competitions won, notable crews etc.
7. Any other useful skills you might have
8. Brief statement on:
   • Why you want to do the job
   • Why you think you'd be good at it
   • What you'd like to change/improve on cucbc.org

Please keep applications concise.

The deadline for applications is 23:59 UTC Saturday 3rd February 2007. A shortlist will be interviewed over the proceeding fortnight. We hope to have people on-board for the Lents to help get involved.

Apologies for the recent unscheduled downtime due to a database error.

cucbc.org will be down for periods over this weekend for a software upgrade.

Privacy

Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs respects your privacy.

Any personal information you provide to us including and similar to your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address will not be released, sold, or rented to any entities or individuals outside of Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs.

Credit card details

Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs will never ask for Credit Card details and request that you do not enter it on any of the forms on Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs.

External Sites.

Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs to recognize you each time you visit this site(customisation etc). Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs does not use cookies to collect personal information. Cookies may also be used by 3rd party content providers such as newsfeeds.

Remember The Risks Whenever You Use The Internet

While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions.

Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.

For any other information email webmaster

Please report any bugs with the new bumps system (or with the site in general) at the Bug Tracker.

Use the Open a New Task Anonymously link to report bugs (registration is entirely optional, and independent of this site).

Everyone is advised to read the Mailing List Guidelines before sending email to any of the CUCBC lists.

Captains are also reminded that they should be subscribed to the Contacts list as well as the Captains list if they have not done so already.

CUCBC maintains several public email lists, which are outlined in full here. The most important lists are Contacts, Coxes and Captains. The purpose of this document is to outline what each of the lists should be used for, and general netiquette that users are expected to observe.

Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in your email being rejected.

All of the email lists are moderated - your email will have to be approved before it is sent round the list.

List Purposes and Guidelines

Contacts

Contacts is the largest CUCBC mailing list with approximately 500 users subscribed. It has a variety of users including college rowers, town club rowers, and members of the public. It is intended for anyone who has an interest in Cambridge college rowing.

• Contacts should be used when your email is relevance to the general rowing community. For example, flag updates are sent to contacts.
• It is a medium volume list.
• Be aware of how many people are subscribed to contacts. It's a lot of people to annoy if your email is perceived as spam.
• Plugs for rowing related events e.g. races, college boatclub cocktails etc are ok. Useful adverts for stuff e.g. boats, ergos, equipment etc are also ok. If this gets out of hand/abused, then this guideline will be changed.

Banter

Banter is a 'catch-all' list for any email that does not fit the guidelines for Captains or Contacts. However, this is not an excuse to spam the list with anything. Observe the etiquette guidelines below. It is primarily intended for opinion, banter, discussion etc. Ads for events and equipment etc are ok in this list. Volume on banter can vary from many emails in one day when a heated 'discussion' is under way, to weeks of inactivity.

Captains

All college boat club captains are subscribed to this list, as the name suggests.

• Email sent to the captains list should be directly relevant to boatclub captains. If you're just trying to send an email to everyone in the rowing community, use contacts. Do not send it to contacts and captains, as all captains should be subscribed to contacts as well.
• It is intended to be low volume. CUCBC understands the substantial amount of email that boatclub captains receive, and by keeping the list low volume, important emails sent to the Captains list are more likely to be read and not discarded as rowing spam.
• Adverts and social event plugs should not be sent to captains. Use banter or contacts instead.
• Plugs for races are ok

Committee

The committee email list sends email to all members of the CUCBC Exec. For general enquiries, your first point of contact should be the CUCBC Secretary, who can be reached with the address: cucbc[AT]cucbc.org who will then forward it to the committee email list if necessary.

Etiquette

The golden rule of posting to email lists is "Think before you post". If what you intend to post will not make a positive contribution to the group and be of interest to several readers, do not post it.

You are advised to be aware of the RFC1855: Netiquette Guidelines, which is a standard set of guidelines for sending and receiving email.

In particular:

• Do not hit Reply All, unless you intend to send your reply to the entire list.
• Do not flame people, or reply to flames. Just ignore it.
• Send email in plain text, not HTML. Use _underscores_ for italics, *asterisks* for emphasis, and CAPITALS for heavy emphasis.
• Use askerisks * or hyphens - as bullet points if needed.
• Lines should break at 72 characters (most email clients do this automatically for you).
• Do not send 'unsubscribe me' requests to the main list address. Send it to webmaster[at]cucbc.org

UPDATE: I mucked up the code, so this isn't working at the moment.

All emails sent to the CUCBC email lists are now archived online for reference purposes. To view the archives, follow the link in the left hand menu or click below.

View the Archives

Note: Emails have only been archived since 21/09/2005.