NEW GO FEDERATION SITE : IT development to be launched in 2025

Dear Go players,

The board of the Belgian Go Federation wishes you a happy new year 2025 !

Also, we would like to inform you on our intentions for 2025 regarding the renew of the website.
We need and want to have a new Belgian Go Federation site with modern design and new features because we think you deserve it. :)

But it's difficult to find volunteers with expertise in Web IT, even more volunteers who are willing to invest a good amount of their time.
For sure, creating a website with a few pages and nice pictures, many can do it. But when you have to manage membership with different access rights, mailing, record tournament results, handle a rating, and ensure migration and maintenance, things get more complicated and expensive in time and budget. And after several attempts the last 10 years, the last try as well did not reach much of our expectations.

Least to say for the future of Go in Belgium the Federation site is very important whereas we are behind in technology running with 20 years old tools.

So sure, if some serious IT developer is still willing to volunteer to achieve this great task of migrating our site to a new shiny one, we would be more than happy.

Otherwise, we will likely have to ask professionals, and pay them for the service...with a scarce budget.

For the moment, we still use the same old gofed.be site, but be aware that our good old gofed.be website is at risk. And as time goes by, the need to change the gofed website will become imperative.
Of course, this point is on the agenda of the forthcoming General Assembly 19th January 25.

Michael Silcher
President of the Belgian Go Federation