One of the problems with slalom is we have a vast amount of people with bright ideas, some workable some perhaps not - however there are very few volunteers actually willing to put in the time and effort needed to make it possible to even consider the ideas, or those that do don't necessarily have the required skills!
I think many people coming up with ideas on this forum do contribute to the sport in other ways and are therefore already putting in time and effort. But none of us have time to do everything.
My understanding was that we paid someone to develop the prem timing system and I just though that, with the benefit of hindsight, extending the brief (and the budget) could have been considered as options.
One option might be to find a bright A level computing student or even Computer Science Degree Student who needs to do a project for their exams. (Would have been a good one for Forbes but he's done his A level now). We would then need to assemble a small group to act as users, but this would be much less onerous in terms of commitment and wouldn't require computing skills from our side just an understanding of the ranking system and points calculations.
We'd have to define a manageable project, but a password controlled internet application to allow uploading of ranked paddlers at start of year, provisional results by organisers, and confirmation of results by ranking officers post checking, with points calculation, discrepancy notification, and ranking calculation should be achievable. We might have to pay for hosting.
This wouldn't need to be a paddler or could be anybody with need of a project.
Might be worth approaching Nottm Univ for example. Probaly better if initial approach came from committee though.