About Romance.ucam.org

Thank you very much for visiting Romance.ucam.org. We hope you like it. :-)

This site was conceived as Romance.ucam.org by Richard Neill and originally realised by John Surcombe. It was originally specific to Cambridge, aiming to provide a service much lacking which would improve the welfare and happiness of many students. Of course, the site isn't purely philanthropic: as they say: "If you want something done, do it yourself..."
If you are interested, here is a longer History of Romance.ucam.org and how it came to be.
Since then, we have also launched it UK-wide at http://ruo3.org. At Cambridge University, the team is run by: Richard, Helen, Helen, Nina, Jo and Cupid.
The greatest other success to date has been in Oxford, thanks to Andy Hine and Dave Agrawal.
We have also had valuable assistance, which we gratefully acknowledge from: Michael Brown, Markus Kuhn, Alex Thom, the SRCF, and Peter Edmond. Thanks also to the many people who have sent in feedback. In particular, thank you to the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory who provided us with our internet connection for several years.
Romance.ucam.org is a non-profit-making student society, run philanthropically, at our own expense.
Our site runs on a Core 2 Quad server with 8 GB of RAM, and is powered by Mageia Linux (formerly Mandrake), PostgreSQL, PHP and Apache. Thanks also to asp2php, analog and of course to GNU. All of this is Free Software, or Open-Source, and its quality is far in excess of that of Microsoft. We have benefited greatly from them, and so it is fitting to thank them here. You can easily try Linux yourself using Knoppix or Ubuntu.
So far, Romance.ucam.org has had 18123 members. Of these, 5648 are still current and 458 are active (i.e. they have logged in within the last 16 weeks). They have exchanged 4105142 messages. (That's the equivalent of 128285 2000-word essays!) Here is a league table of where our members come from. You can also look at our webserver traffic analysis.

If you have any feedback, please do contact us. We wish you good luck!