Current events

3 December 2014

The website version 2.1 is online (tadaaa), with a lot of news, new contents and fixes.

Not less than 63 tickets have been closed for this new version, and new strengths have been added : scholarship system revolution, rags addition (béret d’art, coat, faluche), simulators improvement and lots of contents additions (thanks to French friends).

New scholarship system : released!

Finally, you can edit your school years, this is quite a revolution!

Joking aside, even if it is true, the scholarship system has changed the data encoding aspect. You are free to encode the name of your school and/or cursus. A list will still appear to help you if the name is already known. You don’t need to contact us anymore to add you school and/or cursus, end of the unqualifiable studies by the system, whether you are a teacher, between two courses or anything, you can write everything down!

It releases you from a finite changing list, not really adapted or with missing content. However, it impacts on the data deduction and their correct formulation, for example the spelling, the full name, and some other associated data, such as the school city or country, the length of the scholarship, ...

It’s going to need a bit more of your help, for those who already encoded their studies too. Now, you must precise when a year ends with a graduation, or you won’t have any palm on your beautiful hat (no data, no palm; no palm, no diploma, …). The system detects accordingly the kind of school cycle, the more precisely, depending on the year of your diploma (cycle court <=3, cycle long >3).

If you study (or studied) in a school/university, not the one that gave you your hat (change of cursus, sector, …), and this one is lead by an existing group, you can say it. It will help the simulator to put on the right color behind your star.

Concrete belgian example : I’m studying in INPRES (school) in my first year, i’m baptized by Seraing’s committee, I have my handsome mauve and green colors. The following year, I’m studying in Sainte Croix (school), lead by the eponym group, whereof I precise my second year is related to Sainte Croix and I’ll have a black and orange background.

Call for contribution

We take the advantage of this mail to remind you that every folkloric group needs a moderator to help us fill the encyclopedic forms. We can’t know every songs, history, rags, titles, logos, etc. Choosing a moderator for every folkloric group is actively contributing in the interest of his committee. Think about it!

We are also looking for serious help to improve the website’s communication and help, graphic designer to draw badge (vector), redesign and improve rags and translators.

Thanks!

We thank all those who are contributing to or distribute this site, report deficiencies or errors and help us distribute flyers and / or stickers! Thanks to you and the whole community, the Comitards project takes more shape at all times.

We were present at the 10th “Banquet Européen des Traditions Étudiantes”. Thank you all for your warm welcome and these multi-folk findings, soon to be encoded on Comitards will hopefully finally is already working on it;)!

Important Information

Any validated account will be deleted soon, everyone will be informed by email and they will have to try again to register correctly. If you know someone who has had registration problems, please advise him to contact us.

18 March 2013

New design, new features : a renewed website, enriched and diversified.

Comitards.be sheds its old skin and brings more dynamism to the website ! Visually, the difference is striking : new colours, clear and intuitive structure, modern and attractive design... But the website also innovates concerning the administration and the data’s structure, with among other things an update system of the data and new types of contents. A chance to delight the +1900 registered members and +260 folk groups listed on the website!

This newsletter is sent a little after the release of the website, it permitted us to correct a few bugs that we didn’t see at first. Thanks to the community for reporting them ! This delay has also permitted us to develop additional features for the moderators.

A functional renewal

If the principle of the website stays the same, the administration of data is now easier for the users and group’s moderators. The management profile forms have been simplified, as well as the filiation system (addition godparents/godsons).

As for the existing pages of groups, they can now be directly modified by the moderators for most of the contents, without contacting the team Comitards : the story of the group, the posts, the song, shout and motto, the stickers and wars.

The rags simulator has been completely rewritten to accelerate the profiles access.

The privacy has been reinforced. A more powerful system will soon be developed.

Towards a contents diversification

The new version has also new types of contents. The user profile has been reorganized and is now ruled by a tab system, wich permits to see more easily the folk profile, the pictures, the filiation, the anecdotes and the folk texts.

The groups pages have two new types of contents that the moderators will be able to add or edit : the stickers and wars are now a part of the group’s profiles, amongst the general informations of the group, the song, shout and motto, and the members list.

The website is available in three new languages : Spanish, Italian and Polish. We want to thank again the work of the translators, still in progress and wich will be completed over time.

Here is a preview of the news that will follow:

* Continuation of the rags in the simulator, amongst wich the bands of the régionales
* More features of moderation
* Student’s publications

1900 times thank you!

Above all, Comitards.be is a website based on the personal contributions of its users. Your registrations, your knowledge contributions, your comments permit us to grow and evolve. For all this, we wish to thank evey single one of you, without who this website would not live.

This version is for you, dear users. We wish you a good rediscovery of the website and we stay tuned to your ideas, requests and suggestions.

6 October 2011

The problem regarding the persons having the same name-firstname has been solved.

Other small bugs were fixed.

19 September 2011

Comitards.be is back too with a calendar, all members can add events.

All the select boxes for comitee and town will be replaced in a near futur with a easier new model.

A series of minor modifications was applied to improve the navigation and the comfort on the site.

Take some time during this start of school year to talk about Comitards.be in your comitee. Don't forget to nominate a moderator for your group !

1 July 2011

Comitards.be has grown substantially in recent months and the number of requests, additions or corrections has been just as much. Not many, we could answer that most pressing and then to a maximum of you. So I ask you to excuse us if we've yet to respond, even partially. Some applications expect the next version of Comitards.be to be included.

In order to better prepare the next evolution of Comitards.be, I invite you to restart your requests forgotten. A new system for managing your messages has been set up, hoping to allow better monitoring of such applications. Most of the untreated posts have been moved.

Thus, it is an opportunity for this comunity to send suggestions for its great work to be undertaken over the next year baptismal. I can prove in advance that a system of comunication at will non-local and non-segmented and a system of shared events are already planned.

Remember also that your folk group need a moderator and that many do not.

Thank you for your support.

21 March 2011

New privacy settings allow you to display or not your e-mail to people connected and committed but also to make your profile public or private. That is to say that only the logged in user can view your profile or find you when searching.

Currently the parameters are: e-mail address hidden and public profile. You can change this by editing your account information.

Studies with no committee now give a black edging.

The publishing system for moderators has been corrected. Remember to elect a leader to form the committee. Just contact us for the future.

Additions on the page committee came as the committee or the history of art. It was announced that soon there will be pictures of tinsel committee to complete the automatic drawings and your songs in mp3 format (if you supply it of course).

You define the direction we take, thank you for your participation!

1 February 2011

The functions system has been updated, now you can choose a member of your group as moderator for it.

In the futur, this person will have more possibilities to edit the group page.

The shorts pennes have been installed in the system, just say which group have the wrong penne and we fixe that.

The dead group are indicated following his name on the group page. Here too, just say and we flag it.

A new adds serie for Bruxelles have be done. Don't hesitate to help us to complete and correct.

The work continue, all your mails has been received and added to the todo list. Thanks all !

28 December 2010

Now you can upload your folk text (cf profil) !

The folk group page list the post associated to it and the members list page by year have been activated to the other type of group.

The design have been improved.

The adds continue !

Happy New Year !

14 December 2010

The down of this monday is due to the last DNS update to improve the e-mail sending and avoid the spam box.

No information was lost, don't worry.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

the adds and improvements continue tirelessly, thanks for your helps.

3 December 2010

A big part of the asked addition is executed, please be patient for the rest.

A new navigation system is added between members lists for an easier navigation.

Icons were grouped to optimize the cache and the page load time.

We ask you to be friendly using this website, especially with the post/functions.

The 'bourgeois' star was deleted following a irreconcilable differences folk.

We have recently passed the 700th member, 5000th visit and more than 100.000 page viewed ! Thanks all !