Training Office Report #12
Admiral Keldorn Reporting – 31st May 2003
TO Report #12 will be rather a rather short dispatch because I have been incredibly busy with real-life work and the development of a design and then the implementation of data for one of the Training Office projects; the “Academic NeXus”…
Replacing the Training Office site is the newly implemented “Academic NeXus” (available at www.emperorshammer.ca), a ‘training portal’ for the Emperor’s Hammer. It is very much in its preliminary stages at the moment, with the aim to integrate IWATS, the TO site, and the SA site well underway. There are further plans for its expansion and development, but these are further down the list of projects and hence will not be seen of for some time to come. Project Risorgimento (I can have fancy names for projects too!) is progressing well; with only the Shadow Academy integration still to follow. My utmost thanks are extended to Major Drax, Fleet Admiral Leeson and Vice Admiral Reb Crush for helping me put my site designs into the complicated HTML they required.
For her dedication and tireless work for the Training Office, Colonel Aeishline Strathaven was awarded the Silver Star of the Empire.
The development of the TO competition “Apostasy” was set to one side this last week in order to work on Project Risorgimento (I like saying that…) and hence has not progressed as well as I was hoping. However, it is still planned for a fairly soon beginning even if it has to undergo some minor revisions to do so.
A reminder to Officers in the TIE Corps; simple Combat Rating ‘Races’ are not being approved, and will not be for at-least the immediate future. This was a decision the Operations Officer and I came to some time ago, and we both stand by our reasoning for such a move. However, including a CR element in other competitions is generally acceptable (whereby MP participation is recognised on a points based system).
There was a minor mix-up on my end in regards to the approval of FCHG ‘Races’. I was of the impression (I haven’t the slightest idea why) that FCHG was CR, and visa-versa. This was my fault, and thus I know I denied at least 2 FCHG-based competitions wrongly. They can be resubmitted without fear of denial (on that basis, at-least).
The BitchX (BX) Professor position is still open for applications (details below).
The Training Office is now accepting Course proposals. With stability now re-established within IWATS, and a full compliment of IWATS Staff on the near horizon, I have decided to re-open the Office to proposals of new Courses to be included in the IWATS repertoire. There are a few restrictions upon proposals; I am open to many diverse and innovative ideas, and would like to encourage the proposal of specifically non-programming Courses at this time. The Courses under consideration so far are:
- Cascading Style Sheets.
- Sound Processing/Editing.
- General Multiplayer.
- Star Wars Galaxies.
- Advanced TIE Mission Design (TM/2)
BitchX (BX) Professor Open for Applications
The requirements are:
- An active member of the Emperor’s Hammer holding the rank of Lieutenant (or equivalent) or above.
- Extensive knowledge of the open-source IRC client, BitchX (http://www.bitchx.org/).
- Be able to grade exam submissions within 24 hours.
- Keeping Graduate Counts (total and per month).
- Maintaining/updating the Course Notes (basic HTML knowledge necessary; or a good WYSIWYG editor).
Applications should be sent to me (to@emperorshammer.org) with the subject “BitchX PROF Application”.
Imperial Weapons & Tactics School Staff Roll
· Major Devin Taralis; Training Office Assistant [Drathoz@aol.com]
· High Admiral Priyum Patel; Professor, Squadron Management [spellfire@btinternet.com]
· High Admiral Ari; Professor, Visual Basic Script [ari@tiecorps.org]
· Fleet Admiral Ender mBind; Professor, OPTing Course [mindb_ender@hotmail.com]
· Fleet Admiral Aiden Cantor Karias; Professor, Computer Basics [io@absolutek.ca]
· Fleet Admiral Bevel Leeson; Professor, PHP [skinner@axelero.hu]
· Admiral Marcin Szydlowski; Professor, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter Mission Creation [pbmike@go2.pl]
· Vice Admiral RogueWing; Professor, X-Wing: Alliance Mission Design [roguewing25@yahoo.com]
· Vice Admiral Reb Crush; Professor, Eggdrop [vpx@corporatedivision.com]
· Rear Admiral Tomaas Banys; Professor, Linux [incomtech@wp.pl]
· Colonel Master; Professor, Rebellion Tactics [slavelet@iinet.net.au]
· Lieutenant Colonel Philo; Professor, TIE Fighter Mission Creation [cnwilde@pacbell.net]
· Major Lohr Zadash; Professor, ICQ [LohrZadash@isdrelentless.org]
· Captain Praetorian; Professor, Graphics [prae@ehnet.org]
· Captain Alec Qarni; Professor, AOL Instant Messenger [oneblah2@cs.com]
· Captain Ace; Professor, Flash [ace003_bla@yahoo.com.au]
· Captain Aeolus; Professor, JavaScript [zexipher@yahoo.com]
· Commander Gandalf; Professor, TIE Fighter Tactics [delpieropadova@yahoo.com.au]
· Lieutenant Tek Selkirk; Professor, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter Tactics [tek_selkirk@hotmail.com]
Admiral, Krath Priest Keldorn
Training Officer, Dean of IWATS & Headmaster
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