Felix was a project undertaken by the Codex Herald circa 2007 to upgrade the “Articles” section of the College’s website.
The goal was to provide a content management system that would use web mirroring to allow authors to keep their articles up to date.
Status: Active circa 2007–08; Halted, Abandoned.
Developer: Robin Gallowglass
Announced at the 2007 KWHSS. Never completed or launched.
When OSCAR was about a decade old, there was a round of discussion about replacing it with an updated web application.
Status: Active 2018–2021 or so; Halted, Incomplete.
This effort was started as an custom web application on an open source platform (React JS, PHP, MySQL).
A year later, a herald with a job at an SaaS company offered to build a custom app on their platform, which led to the cancellation of the first effort. Later the company shifted direction and rescinded the development offer, leaving the project stalled.
With this project stalled, attention has shifted back to making incremental improvements in the original OSCAR codebase.
The Meridies Accessible Resource & Education System (MARES) was intended to be an online Learning Management System (LMS) for educational uses in the SCA, starting with heraldic education.
Status: Active 2022–2024 or so; Halted, Incomplete.
Platform: Moodle LMS.
Hosting: Meridies Kingdom Server.
Lead: Sophia Berkeley (Meridies)
This project aimed to make it easier locate relevant rulings by having volunteers comb through past LoARs to attach tags to significant rulings.
Status: Official Society Project, circa 2017/8 – 2020/21 or so. Halted, Incomplete. Renewed activity as of January 2025.
Interface: Website
Code: PHP, GroceryCRUD.
Databases: MariaDB.
Revision Control: Unknown.
Hosting: Hosted on the main SCA.org server.
Developer: Yehuda ben Moshe
Staff: Beatrice Domenici della Campana, as Green Staff Herald