Credits

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FICS

We have devoted a separate page to the beginnings of Snail Bucket.

Many thanks to

  • PankracyRozumek, BethanyGrace, pchesso and Bodia: SB co-founders in 2014/15
  • predkoo who created most of the artwork back then
  • RoyRogersC, herrahuu, Maxmagnus, who were TDs at the time
  • crem and PankracyRozumek who attempted to rebuild Snail Bucket from scratch in 2016.
  • araszek who wrote the second (yellow) color for our Bad Times feature
  • Mekk for the FICS bot writing tutorial series, upon which Snailbot is based
  • blkmagic for setting up FICS news 1542 on Thu, Oct 23rd, 2014
  • FICS for letting us play chess freely
  • Teamleague, the place we all met
  • The FICS games database
  • Watchbot, which stores game comments

Design

  • SB typography: Rage Italic font by R. Zwingelberg M.W.
  • The Slow Coach by J. Leech. In: G. A. à Beckett: The Comic History of Rome. London, 1850s (History)

Most images from the 2014/15 Snail Bucket editions, were our own, except:

Technology

The website (code here) runs on Bodia's home server. It is written in Java, and uses a lot of free software:

  • Spring MVC/Security. Lightweight framework alternative to several J2EE technologies.
  • Jetty. Java web server and servlet container.
  • MySQL. Relational database management system. We have switched to MariaDb eventually.
  • Bliki. Our wiki renders pages with a modified version of Java Wikipedia API.
  • Chesspresso-lib. Open source Java chess library. Its development ceased in 2003.
  • Apache. We use commons-fileupload, commons-io, the HTTP client, and other components.
  • ImageMagick. Scales images.
  • Joda Time. Handles time zone peculiarities.
  • Jython. Integrates PankracyRozumek's tourney scripts (buckets/pairings/standings creation).
  • Python. Snailbot is written in Python.
  • Jamwiki. We use a simplified Jamwiki skin.

Special thanks:
Vegachess. We're given a free license to use this pairing software, which is very kind.