CSP Corner Blog

I’d like to welcome anyone visiting from New York OA Trader after he posted about CSP Corner on his blog.

There are big dreams for this site!  I’ve never been happy with any of the resources out there for CSPs.  Personally I want Scans!  I want Details!  I want everything listed in one resource, not one for JSPs and one for CSPs!  (I know I’m picky)

Functionality is not all here… you can tell that.  First off the design ended up not suiting us well, not enough content space so that will be fixed eventually.  The marketplace is going to be the last feature of this site activated.

What are we working on?
We are working on getting all of the Councils listed and at least one CSP from each Council listed.  While this is happening, we are trying to fix the back end (the administrative features) to make updates easy.  Eventually what we want to have is one or two “experts” from each Council who will be in charge of keeping their Council’s issues up to date.  The local individuals are the best resource on knowing what is what from their Council.  We have already started collecting realized prices from various sources, however they have not been analyzed or formatted yet.

The major promblem we are facing:
What classification system to use?  Everyone we talk to suggest we just use An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches, however due to copyright restrictions, that is not possible.  So we’ve been trying to come up with a new system, which is a lot harder than it seems.  If you have any thoughts or have a good system let us know!

Please post any suggestions or thoughts!  They will be considered.

The goal of CSP Corner is to become THE CSP RESOURCE on the internet. While other sites have tried to fill the void the founders of CSP Corner have not been happy with the results. We wanted a resource that provided the visitor the level of information that John Pannell provides on his Order of the Arrow site, The Internet Guide to OA Insignia.

Features we are exploring:

• CSP Image Directory, featuring every issue from every council.
• Detailed information about each issue including design information and issue information.
• A Price Guide pulling data from online sales, user submitted information, and dealer partnerships.
• A Marketplace where users can post classified ads to help you with your patch collection.
• Council “Experts” to make sure new issues don’t get missed.

 

It won’t be a fast process and we will be looking for help along the way. If you think you have something to provide to the project please keep checking back or let us know.