If you’re an
Ultimate
traveller
This is the worldly
website for you to set up
your next game!
BY CHRISTIAN jENNEWEIN
simple tool that enables everybody to share Also the second point is developing smoothly.
BEGINNING OF DECEMBER a new version Frisbee event information and that works 24/7 One and a half years later, ffindr serves over
of ffindr went online. Development of this first and all around the world. ffindr was designed 30,000 pages to 7,000 visitors from more than
big update of the world’s biggest Frisbee web from the very beginning: 100 countries per month. It’s currently available
application started in the early — jetlag-caused 1. to enable gathering of Frisbee information in five languages: French, German, Spanish,
— morning hours after my arrival in Vancouver (tournament announcements, results, links) Russian and English. The calendar pages, such
for Worlds end of July 2008. Since then many with the help of many contributors, as the Canadian Frisbee Calendar (http://ffindr.
improvements have been made. The website 2. to offer an easy-to-use Web interface to com/en/calendar/canada) or the European
turned from a small project to a big application give the data back to the users, as well as (http://ffindr.com/en/calendar/europe/2009),
based on state-of-the-art web technologies. 3. to provide a way to export data for provide a good overview of what is going on in
You might think “ffindr” is a typo, but actually integration on remote websites. a country or a continent. So does the ultilinks
it’s the project’s working title that never has The first point is addressed by an easy-to- section. The once very popular Ultilinks website
been changed. The name is derived from the use interface that allows for quick feeding of has been down since October 2006, and
words Frisbee and finder, and that’s what it’s the database. Everybody can add information redirects to ffindr since summer 2008. It’s
all about: a website that bundles all Frisbee to ffindr, modification is restricted to registered not a secret that Ultilinks — the “mother of all
information at a single and accessible spot, thus users (registration is certainly for free) though Frisbee related websites” has been and is very
facilitates finding and accessing Frisbee-related to ensure a certain security. About 500 people inspirational for ffindr. The “new ultlinks” has
information. registered so far, with many of them taking care been created to provide an international portal
ffindr has been initially conceived and of their added content. If registered and logged to Frisbee teams, blogs, federations, pick-up
developed by myself, Christian. I’m a German in, added tournaments or links can arbitrarily be games, shops, and so on. The section, subject to
web developer and Ultimate Frisbee player who modified and updated by the contributor. constant growth, currently lists about 150 links
currently lives in Paris. On my side is a growing In addition there are a bunch of helpful people in over 60 countries.
group of people helping to improve ffindr. that ensure the overall consistency and quality Big progress has been made regarding the
Special thanks goes to Charlie (Paris), Erik of data added to ffindr, the so called moderators. third and last point of ffindr’s initial design goals.
(Erlangen), Jano (Paris), Justin (Madrid), Moderators are users with special power: more Several websites cooperate with ffindr and feed
Mariana (Paris), Marvin (Stuttgart), Patrick precisely they have the ability to modify any their tournament listing from ffindr, such as
(Lisbon), Roger (Barcelona), Sasha (Kiev)... and information listed on ffindr. Ideally there are
beachultimate.org (BULA) or
ffdf.fr (the French
maybe very soon, you too! Being a state-of- moderators for all parts of the world, each one (or Flying Disc Federation). ffindr encourages every
the-art web application, ffindr is a collaborative team) taking care of a certain country or region. Frisbee webmaster to get their tournament
tool and depends entirely on the community At the moment we have a solid coverage of Europe listing right from ffindr. If you’re a webmaster of a
that is you. but lack moderators for countries in America Frisbee website — either of a small team or a big
ffindr grew out of the need for a universal and (Canada, US, Colombia and Venezuela) as well association — you certainly have been confronted
up-to-date tournament listings. Being a web as the Asian-Pacific region (Japan and Australia). with the cumbersome task of keeping your
professional with a strong interaction design Interested in keeping the calendar and ultilink Frisbee tournament listing / calendar up to date.
background, I just couldn’t understand why there section tidy for a certain country? Just contact ffindr offers a convenient way to automatically
are still dozens of regional Frisbee calendars and me, there’s absolutely no commitment. One could take care of all this. It allows the creation of
no combined solution. In summer 2007 I stated see ffindr as an extended Wikipedia for Frisbee, so personalized RSS feed that suit your needs,
the development with the goal to build a truly you do what you want to do and that’s fine. for instance all beach Ultimate tournaments
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