[Geysers] Geysertimes Announcements

[Geysertimes]

Hi everyone,

Will Boekel speaking here. Just a few announcements about Geysertimes. As some of you may know Jake and I are developing an android app for Geysertimes (Apple app much much later... but we are thinking about doing that in the future). We are hoping to have it released by park opening, if not by then the next goal is at the beginning of May before I start work at the Old Faithful Lodge on May 2, and if that doesn’t happen then unfortunately it looks like that the release will be delayed until after I am done working in the park in late August at the earliest. 

A few notes about the database in the coming month. We do have a testing database environment set up for the app to be tested on without actually doing anything to the live database. However, there will come a point that we will be doing full live testing with the live database before we release the app to the store. So just keep that in mind in the coming month if you see a few bad entries on the site during that testing phase (the entries will be marked as coming from the app and will contain comments that designate it as a testing entry). 
Just one FYI if you are thinking of submitting a feature idea for the app it most likely won’t be included on the app this year as we are running out of time till our deadline dates so most likely it will not be included in any version that is released this summer.

Also Jake and I have been working on a bunch of web updates for you to enjoy and there will be more details about those later as the current focus is getting the app ready for publishing.

We will be posting to our Facebook page updates about the status of the site and any testing that is going on so please check there before you freak out that someone broke Geysertimes or did something wrong.

One last item, Thank you to the people that are willing to be my guinea pigs and provide feedback about the app during the development phase:
Carol Beverly,
Clark Murray,
Alan Glennon,
Pat Snyder,
Suzanne Strasser,
Tara Cross,
Steve Robinson,
Karen Low,
Ben Hoppe

Hope everyone has a easy time dealing with their geyser withdraw for this last month,

Will Boekel
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