At Twickenham Rowing Club we’ve been tinkering with an online availablity system for the past couple of years. It helps our rowers and coaches co-ordinate the cat herding task of getting 10+ people in the same place, at the same time, four times a week.
It’s a fairly rough and ready system but it’s been working well for us and we havnn’t seen anything simular in the rowing world.
This week, we released our system for use by other clubs. Part of our motive for doing this, was to try and ensure the system’s future by:
a) expanding the number and diversity of users.
b) trying to make contact with people developing simular things elsewhere in the rowing community.
The response has well and truly exceeded my expectations.
I’d thought if we were really lucky we might get 5 clubs using it within the year.
After 3 days, we’ve had over 20 clubs sign up, with a good number of those actively using it.
We’ve also had one contact from a developer working on potentally complimentally system.