Site Credits
Where This Site Came From
Several years ago, Michael Karlin, a former Regional Commissioner of AYSO Region 76 (Beverly Hills) recruited Samuel Knowlton, then a student from Cornell University, to design a system that would streamline some of the paperwork and job functions performed by AYSO parents and volunteers. Since then, with a great deal of dedication and support from Mr. Karlin and others named below, inLeague has grown to tie together things like on-line player registration, referee scheduling, game scheduling, team assignments, and rosters -- and more work goes into it each year. In 2004 and 2005, AYSO Region 76 comissioned Sam -- by then a web developer at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations -- along with his colleague, designer Camille Lee, to give the public site a new look and feel.
In February of 2006, WSSL's own Regional Commissioner, Dana DiPrima, took advantage of much of the work already done for Beverly Hills and committed to launching player registration for the Fall 2006 season using the same system. With Michael Karlin's recommendation and support from Sam and Camille, the new wssl.org and on-line player registration were developed in the short space of six weeks to what you see now.
While Sam and Camille developed these sites, it is important to recognize that wssl.org (and ayso76.org) would not exist as they are today without the hundreds of volunteer hours on the part of AYSO volunteers and board members from both regions. These volunteers have supplied a wealth of soccer knowledge and AYSO practices, in addition to providing everything from server space to troubleshooting hours to spare bedrooms for visiting web developers. This has very much been a collaborative effort, and it is still on-going -- the software behind wssl.org and ayso76.org is custom-built from the ground up, and it wouldn't be here without some of the following people:
We'd like to thank The Academy, and. . .
- Michael Karlin, who started Beverly Hills' web site in 1996. He has coached for AYSO since 1981, including the GU12 team that won the National Games in Kalamazoo in 1996, has refereed since 1990 and served on the board of region 76 from 1990 to 2001, including the last three years as Regional Commissioner.
- AJ Willmer is a technology consultant and a long-time community activist. He served on the Beverly Hills Unified School District Board of Education from 1991 to 1997. Most importantly, he has been an AYSO Region 76 volunteer coach and referee for many years.
- Samuel Knowlton, the principal developer for the inLeague application suite, now spends most of his time developing and maintaining the inLeague software and the infrastructure required to run it. At one time a professional actor in New York City, he has been involved with AYSO since being recruited by Michael Karlin in 2002, and is known to reprise one line from a favorite role whenever anything goes wrong on the web site: "It's beyond my control!" www.inleague.org or sam@inleague.org
- Camille Lee is a web developer at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell and also a freelance designer. She works with Sam regularly and is responsible for the look and feel of the new site.
- Steve Cooney, a WSSL coach of boys teams for several years, gallantly volunteered (or at least agreed) to transfer all the useful information from the old website (as well as from reams of other new documents) to this new improved website... in a couple of days time, after work, into the wee hours of the morning, protecting its integrity and making information easy to find for all of WSSL. Thanks to Steve and to Moira, too. And, not for nothing, but none of these techno improvements would have happened had it not been for your collective "Why nots?" and "If baseball can..." So, thanks!
- Warren Habib, WSSL's long-time webmaster, who deserves this site more than anyone else. Thank you for making information available to us via the Web for so many years and for being so nice at the 6:30 am weather posting calls. All of WSSL thanks you!
- Lisa Kassel, WSSL's first league-wide "point person" for all things technical about the web site. Lisa spends a lot of time (and we mean a lot of time) working with the league and with Sam to support the six thousand+ users of wssl.org and to figure out how best to improve the site for parents, coaches, referees, and volunteers throughout the league.
- Dana DiPrima, WSSL's Commissioner, who gambled on some of the above mentioned characters and put in more than a few hours leaping no end of technical and logisitcal hurdles to help make this site happen. Without Dana, this site wouldn't be here, and that's all there is to it.