Nella giornata odierna è arrivata una novità sicuramente gradita agli appassionati di netKar Pro: da oggi entra infatti a far parte del team Jaap Wagenvoort, già organizzatore di diversi tornei con il simulatore di Stefano Casillo. Il suo compito sarà quello di informare periodicamente la community sulle novità in fase di sviluppo, cercando di far cadere il muro di silenzio che troppo spesso c'è stato tra crew e pubblico.
As netKar PRO celebrates its 1-year anniversary some changes are announced. From now on I have joined the netKar PRO team. I will carry out various tasks, but the one you will notice most is that I will be the 'linking pin' between you (the community) and the netKar PRO development team.
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The change
The main goal is ... yes, to communicate! In the past, Stefano himself was active in the forums sometimes, then 'disappeared' again. You can imagine he is pretty busy with managing the sim and the relationship with and work for BRD. This resulted in a lack of communication from the team to the actual customers - you guys out there 
What some of you suggested in the past months was that it was needed to have 'some guy' from the community who can provide official information and deal with questions. Well, that is exactly what happened. Periodically, I will meet with Stefano and we will discuss the current developments, progress and issues. I will then take this information and bring it to you guys out there.
This gives 1) the customers official information and a person 'to talk to' and 2) Stefano a little air to breathe. Also, it will make sure that there is always somewhere and someone to go to verify information which will avoid people to jump to wrong conclusions.
For now, this communication will occur mostly using the RSC & DI netKar PRO forums. This can change in the future, but for now these are the main 'community communication channels' for me. If you have suggestions in terms of additional channels, let me know.
What can you expect from me.. and what not?
I won't be able to answer all your questions of course. I also won't be able to give release dates. I can and will answer questions as far as I can and will collect questions and raise them in meetings with the development team.
Also, even though I am part of the team, this gives me no real power to influence the developments or priorities. So please do not "shoot the messenger". I am here to provide you with information from the team and to link the team with the community - a link that is really needed. But, priorities are defined by BRD and the netKar PRO development team so please bear this in mind when urged to press the ‘Reply’ button to write an angry post 
Last Saturday, Stefano and I had the first of our meetings in which we discussed the progress, the current developments and things to come. We also walked through a document that I prepared containing the 'community feedback', which is a list with things that you guys want to see added or improved. This makes sure that the things you really want to see changed are being put into the development team. Of course, time is the most important enemy. Time is limited, especially as the development team is really small and has various responsibilities which doesn't allow them to 100% work on the customer netKar PRO all the time.
Tracks
Finally, my position means that I will stop working on tracks. My latest work was done on Spa-Francorchamps. This work is completely finished now so I will release Spa-Francorchamps and then stop the work. The good news however is that something will replace my work. I will elaborate on this in my first 'netKar PRO Community Update', which will be released today.
What I'm aiming to achieve is to create a better understanding for you guys out there of what is happening. This way you know better what is going on, what is causing delay. Just ask questions when you want. It could well be that you will receive an answer .. or maybe a 'I don't know'. At least normal questions will be answered instead of a continuing silence.
Remember, this is an unpaid position which I am doing in my spare time besides my normal work. See me as 'one of you' who has the possibility to be a linking pin with the team and who made sure you guys get more and official information on what is going on. Please have some patience with me when I don't always respond quickly. I am doing the best I can giving the time I have available. It is all part of making the situation better for you guys out there.
I hope you appreciate this communication change between the community and the development team. I think that it will improve the situation a lot. If you have anything that needs clarification, let me know.
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Per quanto riguarda invece ulteriori dettagli riguardo l'attesa prossima patch ufficiale versione 1.03, ecco arrivare un interessante aggiornamento:
netKar PRO Community Update #1
April 12th 2007
This first netKar PRO Community Update informs about the latest developments and inside information on the development team.
