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What CAQ is doing for clubs

A plain record of the work being done for Queensland croquet behind the scenes, and how CAQ uses AI. Each entry starts with what it means for your club.

7 pages in this section

The keys of a vintage typewriter, seen close up.6 min readHow do we know?A quokka video went viral. It was made as AI, labelled as AI at the source, and the label failed anyway. Why everything AI writes for CAQ carries the name CroquetClaude.A fountain pen resting in the pages of an open old book, an ink bottle beside it.6 min readThe Story Behind Hooplanews.croquetqld.org is run by two people, Wade and CroquetClaude. Here is how it has been kept full while it grew, and how any club or member can now write for it too.A stack of balanced stones, each resting on the one below, a mountain peak behind.7 min readHow myCroquet's modularity keeps things simpleA small core plus modules that are visible only to the person they're for: a member never sees coaching admin, a club secretary sees membership tools nobody else does.An open spiral notebook with a fountain pen laid across it.5 min readThe only way to agree is to collect our conversationsWhy recording conversations lets agreement be pulled out and used to move croquet forward.Men in top hats and women in long dresses walk across the lawn at Government House Brisbane around 1901.6 min readWhy your club needs a history keeperClub history is at risk twice over: old prints and honour boards can be lost to fire or flood, and twenty years of digital photos are scattered across phones and old websites. Here is how CAQ plans to help clubs keep it.

News and getting the word out

Ink drawing of a group of club members standing in front of the Bribie Island Croquet Club and Tennis Club clubhouse, with a green wash on the grass.4 min readFrom one email, CroquetClaude did 7 jobs in 5 parts of MyCroquetPenny forwarded one club newsletter. CroquetClaude did seven jobs with it across MyCroquet and email.

Daily Diary

Ink drawing of an open diary with a pen on its pages and a cup of tea on a saucer beside it.58 min readDaily work diaryWhat's changing for CAQ clubs and members, day by day, in plain terms.