Call for volunteers – membership (Odoo) and FIDE ELO processing

We are looking for additional volunteers to help support the Federations work on two topics: memberships and affiliations, and FIDE ELO processing.

Membership and affiliations

We are currently in the process of designing and developping a new membership system. Our current system is outdated, fragmented and not compliant with modern security guidelines. We are partnering up with an integrator of the Odoo software suite.

In order to continue supporting the clubs, ligues and regional federations, we are looking for a volunteer who wants to contribute to support the current efforts, and help us migrate to a new, up-to-date membership system.

🔍 Profile we’re looking for

• Interest in supporting the migration from a legacy system to a new modern Odoo-based membership system. Working knowledge in both systems will be trained and needed.
• Willingness to work alongside the current responsable for affiliations, Luc Cornet.
• Optional: ambition to take over the responsibility in the long term.
• Knowledge of the chess world is a plus, but not essential.

📣 Why this matters

The Royal Belgian Chess Federation is actively promoting chess to all people on different levels. We are pursuing an increase of memberships to promote our fantastic sport further. A good membership system is vital to offer all our partners a seamless experience when joining the official chess community.

FIDE ELO processing

More and more clubs and tournament organizers are submitting their official games for FIDE ELO processing. With the upcoming proposed migration of our national ELO system, we foresee an even bigger workload in terms of tournament registrations and FIDE ELO report processing.

Next to this processing work, we plan on working on automation tools to facilitate and automate both processes as much as possible. So an interest in optimization and knowledge about programming languages is preferred.

🔍 Profile we’re looking for

• Interest in registration and FIDE ELO processing for the Belgian Chess Federation.
• Willingness to work alongside the current responsable for FIDE ELO, Luc Cornet.
• Optional: ambition to redesign and automate (parts of) the registration and processing workflows.
• Knowledge of the chess world is a plus, but not essential.

📣 Why this matters

The Belgian Chess community counts on the Federations services to progress official chess games for FIDE ELO. By facilitating the reporting process, we aim to give our users a seamless experience whilst building up their FIDE ELO.

✉️ Interested?

If you’d like to contribute — or know someone who would — please contact us at steven.bellens@frbe-kbsb-ksb.be.
👉 Further information available upon request.