User:Nicjansma
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About Me
Hello! My name is Nic Jansma and I run sarna.net in my spare time. I'm currently living in Seattle, and working at Microsoft on the Windows Client Performance Team.
I run Sarna.net and a few other websites in my spare time. If you have any ideas or suggestions, or want to help out, please let me know!
Sadly, these days, I don't play BattleTech much any more -- I haven't played the board game in a couple years. I've played most of the video games, a bit of Neveron, but BattleTech is still in my heart. I sold most of the non-rule books a while ago, something that I now regret, but you never know at the time. I hope others are out there still playing. It's great to see sites like Classic BattleTech still going strong, and several projects still being developed for BattleTech.
Feel free to leave a note!
History of Sarna.net
I started Sarna.net back in 1994. I had just bought BattleTech 3rd Edition and was getting into computers at the same time. Basic HTML and a few links later, and this site was born. Eventually, I began searching far and wide for every BattleTech file and tidbit I could get my hands on, and compiled it into the site. I've put in a lot of time and energy here, but it's all been worth it and I love the BattleTech community.
As of October 2006 I've converted all of Sarna.net into a wiki with hopes that the site will morph to what the community needs.
Thanks to everyone who helps out!
To Do
My current to-do list:
- (done?) Integrate with MechWikia folks
- (done) Create timeline articles for each year in Timeline
- Write Privacy Policy, About and Disclaimer pages
- (done) Move 'Search' box in sidebar to below 'Classic BattleTech Wiki'
- Investigate using Captcha for anonymous comments that contain URLs (to compat spam)
- Add SysOps for MechWikia folks
- (done) Fill out more '#About Me' on this page
- (done) Create Forums for the Wiki on Sarna.net Forums
- (in progress) Game Systems
- Move 'Downloads' sections to floating box
- Add box images, etc
- Add fluff
- (done) Create an image for the top-left area relating
- (done) Convert Main_Page to look more like a wiki, moving the news to a right pane
- Convert old mech files to wiki
- (done) Using Manuf data, generate text for all components (ER Small Laser, etc) for what planets they're produced on.
- BattleTechWiki:ToDo
- (done) Convert old CCG cards
- (done) Create artist lists for CCG cards
- Clan Remembrances
- Dictionary
- Clan Bloodnames
- Fan-submissions section