I dont think Mark or my own statements of "Ya, it works" has anything to
do with how large a region is.
Everyone in any region ive worked with, passes thru registration awt the
same painfully slow pace. Some ideas do have positives, and not every new
idea is something to be feared. Im not even convinved what we used in
NeOkla was even a database, but its been a few years since I lived there
as well.
This region suffers from its own popularity..not always a bad thing, but a
unique one for sure. :^)
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jerry Mouton wrote:
> How many entrants run at a typical event in your local
> region, Mark?
>
> Again, who would do all this in SFR? Is registration data entry a signup
> work assignment? Or is there someone who is there at every event
> early in the morning, dedicated to make this work? Who would you see
> handling the merge of databases? Is your experience of database merge
> that it typically just runs, no problem?
>
> We used to handle our AYSO Soccer League registration with several
> machines and an after-the-fact database merge. We were using a
> professional database product, but even then there was invariably
> some kind of hangup and I'd be up all night making one database out of
> the several. Of course, SFR might have an easier time, but again, we'd
> be under extreme time pressure, and the event would depend on
> completion of the merge in the 10 minutes between start of the
> drivers' meeting and beginning of run group 1 -- without failure.
> And, online database update continuously during the day as new people
> showed up and registered.
>
> Sounds a lot tougher to me than it does to you!
>
> Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
> rouler!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>
> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Preregistration and computerized timing/scoring
>
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Josh Sirota wrote:
> > > 2) However, pre-registration is absolutely REQUIRED for any on-site
> SCORING
> > > software to work. There is no way to get on-site scoring done without
> all
> > > of the entrants IN THE COMPUTER SYSTEM before their run group starts.
> This
> > > is nearly impossible to accomplish with on-site registration.
> >
> > FWIW (not much) my local region sticks people in the computer as they
> > register. Doesn't seem to slow anything up much. By the time the money
> > taker is done, the computer entry person has entered in the car/driver
> > info. This is made easier if the software has some idea of history, but
> > isn't required.
> >
> > Heck, even if you had to have two folks doing computer entry and then a
> > merge, seems like it'd be doable.
> >
> > Pre-registration would be a nice bonus of course.
> >
> > >From what I've heard about TS96, its not horribly user friendly. I seem
> > to recall hearing about other software that was a little easier to use,
> > etc, but I don't remember names. I'm sure a post to the evolution list
> > would generate lots of good suggestions that would work with a JAC timer,
> > etc.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > (back to lurking)
>
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Geoff Mohler
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