Tasks for 2006 South African Open
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Thanks to everyone who helped make this tourney a great success.
This page should be weaned off the wiki as we integrate its relevant info onto the main site over time.
The 14th South African Open and 3rd African Oza are being held in Stellenbosch this year. This sort of event is quite a lot of work, usually undertaken by volunteers. If you can help, we'd appreciate it.
If you can help with any of these things, or something else you can think of, please let us know how you can and are willing to help. Do this by editing this page (click on the 'edit' tab above, and add what you're willing to do), or e-mailing Steve Kroon.
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Stuff we still need help with
- People willing to discuss proposed Rules for South African Go Tournaments - just visit the page and start discussing.
- Someone who can provide a decent looking Go stone bowl (goke) for the Oza draw at the opening ceremony on Friday night. --TheKro 11:31, 14 February 2006 (SAST)
- Fetching people at the airport and taking them to their accomodation, as well as returning them to the airport after the tournament. In some cases with the Oza, we can pay a small petrol subsidy. People that still need to be fetched and dropped for the Oza so far are:
- Mr. Manitra Harimisa Razafindrabe (Madagascar) (departs 27/2, 18h15 (drop-off at 17h15))
- Tristen Taylor (departs 27/2, 10h00 (drop-off at 09h00))
Note that players should be dropped off an hour before departure time.
- Andries Kruger picked up Mr. Mory Traore (Ivory Coast) and Andre Connell.
- Andries Kruger will take Mory Traore to Somerset Mall to replace his damaged suitcase.
- Florian Breuer will pick up Mr. Manitra Harimisa Razafindrabe (Madagascar) at 13h15 on 23 February.
- Bernard Broens will fetch Mr Fouad Tehhani (Morocco) (arrives 24/2, 12h45)
- Reinhardt Messerschmidt will pick up and drop off Leander Gaum and Cheng Lai (arrives 14h55, 24/2; departs 21h20, 26/2).
- Konrad Scheffler will pick up and drop off Victor Chow and Aki Zhou (arrives 14h55, 24/2; departs 21h20, 26/2).
- Andrew Davies is willing to fetch and transport the players he hosts.
- David Richfield will drop off Mory Traore at 06:30 28/2.
- If we have wireless capability and people free, it would be cool to have someone relay the games from the top boards on KGS, as well as posting updates on the tournaments on the website. Guillaume Binet has indicated he is willing to help out on the Sunday, as he's unable to play in the tournament, Friday's and Saturday's games still need volunteers. Knowing your way around KGS would definitely be a plus. A further bonus of doing this is that we'll have some game records for our top players to comment and post on the site in time ;)
- Konrad Scheffler will handle disputes. Steve Kroon will handle disputes in games involving Konrad Scheffler. We need someone to handle a potential dispute in a potential game between Konrad and Steve - if you know a little bit about the technicalities of Go rules, it would help, but you don't have to be an expert.
Stuff seemingly under control (still, please say if you can help)
- We need 2 people between rounds to (a) enter game results, (b) generate the draw for the next round, (c) print the draw and post it, (d) update the African Oza tournament table, and (e) announce that the draw is up.
- Steve Kroon will manage this.
- Rory Beling has also said he will help.
- Chris Welsh is also be willing to assist.
- Volunteers to take photographs for publicity and for sending along with the tournament report to the Nihon Ki-in. Please specify when you can help as soon as you know.
- Grant Webb may be able to help with some of this.
- Florian Breuer is also willing to take pictures, but not during his own games.
- Dalene de Beer will also bring her camera, and take some pictures.
- David Richfield has contacted E-tv, SABC 1-3, Die Burger and Eikestadnuus with details.
- Cool - please keep me informed of developments here. How about the Stellenbosch Gazette? And is anyone planning on making an announcement beforehand, or maybe just doing an after the fact report? --TheKro 14:03, 13 February 2006 (SAST)
- Hosting players from Gauteng in your house/flat over the weekend of the tournament. Players that have indicated they'd like to be hosted if possible are Ben Gale, Tristen Taylor, and Andre Connell.
- Andrew Davies has offered to host one or two players.
- Florian Breuer has offered to host Andre Connell.
- Steve Kroon may be able to host one player.
- Ben Gale and Tristen Taylor have made alternative arrangements for accomodation, so this is easily under control.
- Commitments to bring sets/clocks etc along to the tournament. If everyone bring their boards, and entries don't go too high, we should actually be OK, here.
- We have 16 clocks from SAGA
- Ben Gale says he will send down his own clock and Joburg club's 3 clocks.
- Bernard Broens will bring a clock.
- Guillaume Binet will provide a clock (must arrange to get clock beforehand).
- Andrew Davies will bring a set and a clock.
- Chris Welsh is willing to loan his clock, but it only supports regular, and not Canadian byo-yomi.
- David Richfield will bring 2 sets.
- Florian Breuer will bring 1 set, and can bring another one if very necessary.
- Konrad Scheffler will bring 1 set, and is willing to bring his ("superannuated") clock.
- Reinhardt Messerschmidt will bring 1 set, and is willing to bring his ("very uncooperative") clock.
- Aketa Katsuyuki's lift should bring his 2 sets.
- Steve Kroon can provide 1 set, and a glass set (if necessary).
- Andries Kruger will provide 1 set.
- Jaco Swanepoel will provide 1 set.
- Packing out and packing up tables and chairs at the venue of the tournaments.
- Christina Auret has volunteered to help with this.
- David Richfield has volunteered to help with this.
- Reinhardt Messerschmidt has volunteered to help with this.
- Konrad Scheffler will help if he is there at the right time.
- Andries Kruger will also help with this.
- Acting as a translator or explainer for foreigners, who may have a limited grasp of English, but are fluent in French, and potentially Japanese or Chinese, or other languages.
- Florian Breuer has volunteered to translate between French and English when he's available.
- Guillaume Binet and Kuniko Binet have volunteered for translation on the Sunday.
- David Richfield will provide stickers for labelling ishi for the Oza draw.
- People to assist with collecting money and the rest of registration
- Andrew Davies has volunteered for this.
- David Richfield has volunteered to help with this.
Finished stuff
- Putting up posters for the tournament where they will get maximum exposure
- David Richfield will help with this.
- Konrad Scheffler will put up 2 posters at UCT.
- Posters were divided up between players at the Stellenbosch Go club.
- Someone who can provide a laptop/DVD player and a TV/access to a projector for a presentation Mr. Mory intends to give on the Saturday evening.
- I can bring my laptop with me, it has a DVD-drive in it and a TV or monitor out. Rory Beling
- Florian Breuer will organise access to room 3021 of the Maths department on the Saturday evening.
- Loan of a laptop with wireless capability by someone with access to the Neelsie hotspot. This will allow us to replay games live on the internet, as well as keeping ranks up to date etc as the tournament progresses. we will hopefully also be able to do the draw and print the new pairings for each round from this laptop.
- Rory Beling's laptop has wireless but no access to the University network , if we can get him on it, we can use it. It seems we will have to use GPRS from the phone calls budget.
- Loan of a printer for printing pairings
- Rory Beling will provide his printer, since it's already configured for his laptop.
- Chris Welsh has a laserjet 4 printer he's willing to lend. ("Its pretty hefty but very reliable, and will work with pretty much any computer"). "I won't be able to be there on Friday, so I'd have to drop it off on the Thursday before the tournament, assuming someone could take it."
- Florian Breuer is willing to do this if absolutely necessary, but would prefer another volunteer to step forward.
- Someone to arrange with a local chess club for the loan of clocks or someone who can provide me with contact details for arranging this (preferably mechanical ones) - we currently have 22 stable clocks which may be enough, but having access to more provides a safety net (see points on boards and clocks in "seemingly under control").
- Steve Kroon has obtained 6 more clocks from Bruce Williams, the president of the Chess Club.
- Someone who can lend us an easel for a flip chart for the weekend to display the Oza draw. Also, if someone has access to an A1-capable printer (B&W is fine), that would be awesome (not to lend, but to print something on beforehand).
- Konrad Scheffler will bring an easel; Konrad and Stacy Scheffler have also organized the A1 printing.
- Someone who is willing to polish trophies (there are 3, one XL, one L, and one M).
- We've hired Adrian Thom to handle this for us.
General volunteers where they can help
- Ben Bredenkamp
- Andre Connell
- David Richfield
- Guillaume Binet and Kuniko Binet can help on the Sunday.