Please Submit Your ITRC Forums Successes - August 2002

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Everyone,

Please submit your highlights and successes you have had while using the ITRC Forums. Your feedback helps convey the positive influences the forums have had on your IT life. For example, have you:

1. Posted a question and received a key answer that solved your problem?
2. Have you viewed a message thread that had a solution to a problem you were trying to solve?
3. Found the Forums to be of particular help in sharing information, exchanging best practices, or saving you time?

I'd really like to hear from everyone -- your circumstances, the issues, the outcome, who was of help, time saved, etc.! If you have examples to share, please provide the URL of the thread if possible.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Best Regards,
Dan Gazzaniga
Forums Manager

[Kiran N. Mehta]

-- Dan Gazzaniga wrote:

> I'd really like to hear from everyone -- your circumstances, [snip]

Sometimes one may like to privatise an exchange after the main topic of the thread has concluded...

Users should have the option to make their personal email addresses visible in their forums' profile.

Kiran

[Tom Geudens]

Hi Kiran,
That "forum" exists already. Have a look at the following thread (which deserves to be in this success thread every month :-) : http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe5188f960573d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

The "real" forums do have (to most companies, including my own) an official status. Meaning that I'm allowed to browse them (and help from time to time ;-). If my emailaddress would be "out in the open" the forums would definitely loose that status ... not good :-(

Besides you can always "show" your emailaddress in the "certifications" tag.

Regards,
Tom

[Pete Randall]

Time to bounce this up to the top.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

JIT stats :)

Fast movers are compared to id-20020731.txt.gz
Pre-scanning 25370 members, 4480 have points prev 20020731

Fast Movers:

ID Diff Point Bunn Rate Last Msg Name
============ ===== ===== ==== ======= ======== =========================
BR458 +551 13325 533 80.1 % 20020807 Stefan Farrelly
BR180643 +420 7314 359 100.0 % 20020807 Bill McNAMARA
CA646427 +340 1030 60 100.0 % 20020807 Hai Nguyen
CA275236 +327 28950 1710 98.7 % 20020807 A. Clay Stephenson
CA591749 +269 2527 146 100.0 % 20020807 T G Manikandan
CA592260 +263 15176 757 100.0 % 20020807 harry d brown jr
CA13182 +263 3181 175 100.0 % 20020807 Pete Randall
CA520085 +259 11806 790 100.0 % 20020807 S.K. Chan
CA650451 +243 2393 133 100.0 % 20020806 Christopher McCray
CA362973 +242 12049 714 99.1 % 20020807 Michael Tully
BR41967 +192 2666 115 101.3 % 20020807 procura
CA752641 +152 4435 232 100.0 % 20020807 Jeff Schussele
BR682388 +151 1475 83 - 20020807 Frederic Zeller
CA486994 +140 7783 537 100.0 % 20020807 Bill Hassell
BR665223 +139 2214 117 98.6 % 20020807 Tom Geudens
CA510234 +127 4974 293 100.0 % 20020807 MANOJ SRIVASTAVA
BR137763 +113 3528 197 - 20020807 Steve Steel
CA655597 +109 2110 108 100.0 % 20020807 Ron Kinner
CA18165 +100 1765 69 100.0 % 20020807 Martin Johnson
BR648287 +97 643 35 100.0 % 20020802 James Beamish-White
BR658678 +91 1455 51 94.8 % 20020807 Justo Exp?sito

Marked 21 fast movers in 4480 members

2 Olympian's
11 Pharaoh's
44 Royalty's
83 Wizard's
100 Graduate's
114 Pro's

Almost Wizard:
992 20020805 269 54 89.0 % CA227645 Scott Van Kalken
986 20020807 302 44 96.3 % CA600218 Mark Fenton
984 20020114 285 37 91.3 % BR178691 Eugen Cocalea
968 20020627 288 50 97.8 % CA518502 Timothy Czarnik
952 20020315 211 61 100.0 % CA580400 Bruce Regittko
947 20020806 779 45 - CA615696 Roger Faucher
933 20020806 390 40 94.4 % CA789221 Georg Tresselt
924 20020730 203 75 - BR642007 Marco Hogeveen
924 20020806 282 49 95.8 % BR661700 Leif Halvarsson
921 20020524 323 51 98.2 % CA428565 pap
918 20020806 245 56 - CA21571 rick jones

Almost Graduate:
498 20020730 148 35 - CA628575 Jan Klier
486 20020806 190 29 100.0 % CA509803 D. Jackson
477 20020712 91 27 100.0 % BR155197 Steve Lewis
476 20020801 150 22 79.3 % CA643324 Paul R. Dittrich
475 20020709 166 25 - CA713937 David Ruska
471 20020807 287 29 73.8 % BR149499 Ralph Grothe

Almost Pro:
248 20020704 85 19 - CA723827 Jason Walsh
240 20020806 71 14 95.9 % BR35665 Thomas Schler
236 20020506 0 0 - BR182499 Oliver Haensel
234 20020423 0 0 45.5 % BR638875 Raymond Crijnen
232 20020726 156 7 100.0 % CA293534 Steve Post
231 20020222 45 12 100.0 % BR185232 Thomas Kollig


Promoted to Royalty:
2666 20020807 684 115 101.3 % BR41967 procura
2527 20020807 645 146 100.0 % CA591749 T G Manikandan

Promoted to Wizard:
1030 20020807 203 60 100.0 % CA646427 Hai Nguyen

Promoted to Graduate:
524 20020806 105 37 84.6 % CA703934 Richard Dering
523 20020805 153 29 100.0 % CA116784 Robert Jewell
503 20020802 95 30 - CA315718 Mateja Bezjak

Promoted to Pro:
283 20020801 77 12 9.8 % CA765507 Anil
265 20020804 43 16 - BR191042 Steven Mertens
253 20020807 62 16 55.6 % CA613910 Scott

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Full untruncated statistics are now available on https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/#Statistics (including all history so far)

Enjoy!

[Frederic Zeller]

Hi

@Procura : Thanks for those stats !!!

Fred

[Volker Borowski]

Hi Dan,

1000 pages, 30000 questions in the HP-UX forum.
See our congratulations here:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x4beced6464a6d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

I think this entire forum is a success story !
Volker

[Frederic Zeller]

Hi

Procura :

I see on your stats that the

Business Customer Discussion Group points are added to the ITRC forum points

Is that made on purpose ?


Fred

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Yes, *ALL* user's points are added

[Frederic Zeller]

Ok procura. Thanks

but then why doesn't the Business Discussion Group leader appear on your list at all ?

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/UserProfile/1,,BR669187!2,00.html

I guess it's because he doesn't have any point on the ITRC, right ?

Another "small" question : What's the meaning of the "Bunny" numbers ?

Fred

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Correct guess :)

I gather all the user ID's from forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/MemberList and for any ID in that list I fetch the statistics for that ID

Bunny count is the number of answers the user has received a Bunny for (8-10 points)

FWIW the statistics on beepz now have every user ID linked to their home page :)

[Frederic Zeller]

Hi
Thanks Procura

Bunny : Of course ! I should have guess that ... Shame on me ;-)

*Last* question : Where do you get the user Country from ?

I can't find it in the Public profile ...

Fred

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Country has been removed from the users profiles somewhere between 13-05-2002 and 23-05-2002 and is on our wishlist for Dan to return to the users credentials.

My stats try very hard to preserve information gained in the early days of my tries to gather the info. Once it was gone I had to write scripts to get info from the reports back into the DB