From: Ron Fox <fox@...>
Date: 2009-01-15T19:49:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Quizmaster Retiring: Revenge of the Sith

How about a 'quiz' group with a group leader rather than a single 
quizmaster.  Suppose there are n people in the group.  Each person 
then is responsible for at least a quiz every n weeks (if you want to 
continue weekly).   The group leader maintains any pool of additional 
quizzes that come in for lean weeks where a quiz might be missing, and 
determines which quiz from the group gets shoved out each week.. or 
even go to monthly quizzes?

Seems a more sustainable/scalable approach.

Ron.

Matthew Moss wrote:
> Sorry for the dorky subject line...
> 
> A bit over a year ago, mid-November of 2007, James Gray announced he  
> was retiring as the Ruby Quiz master. He had run the quiz for nearly  
> three years, a wonderful achievement enjoyed by many Rubyists here.
> 
> Almost a year ago, mid-February of 2008, I began an attempt to follow  
> in his footsteps. Sad to say, though, I only lasted about 10 months.  
> As of now, I need to retire from running the Ruby Quiz.
> 
> When I started, I had made some changes in my personal life (incl.  
> quitting my job) that allowed me the time to write up quizzes and  
> summaries every week. However, nearly a year later, my personal  
> circumstances have changed again, and I will be unable to dedicate the  
> time necessary to run further Ruby Quizzes. Some of this has already  
> manifested by way of skipped weeks and late quizzes/submissions.
> 
> Hopefully, I've done reasonably well following James' incredible  
> effort. I also hope that, perhaps, there will be another quizmaster to  
> take up from where I left off. I certainly hope so; I may not be able  
> to run the quiz any longer, but I'd still love to participate in some  
> of the lighter quizzes to follow.
> 
> Apologies to everyone that I must step down, but also many thanks to  
> everyone for participating and making RQ2 very enjoyable.
> 
> -- Matthew Moss
> 
> 
> P.S. For those who would consider taking the reigns, I can provide the  
> Ruby scripts (cgi, not Rails) used to run the current site at <http://splatbang.com/rubyquiz/ 
>  >. As for hosting, I am open to several possibilities.
> 
> 


-- 
Ron Fox
NSCL
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1321