Craig? Et tu?
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>From: craig boyle <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
>To: "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>, Pat Kelly <lollipop487@home.com>,
toy4speed@aol.com, ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: Informal Poll on "sort of" pre-reg. for autox !
>Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2001, 12:30 PM
>
>In the real world, a subgroup forms at this point to
>investigate and report on the feasabilty of electronic
>registration and event management.
>
>Is there enough interest from real people to spend
>real time looking at this, rather than just "what
>if.." or "I had a computer once and it didn't work"
>discussions.
>
>I'd do it, Don? Randy? A Kelly?
>
>
>
>Craig
>--- "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com> wrote:
>> I so far really like Don's ideas, particularly about
>> the pre-assigned
>> work assignments. Question: how would you prevent
>> two people from
>> signing up for the same thing? Would event chairs
>> have to deal with TWO
>> lists? I like the database idea, BUT now that means
>> someone at
>> registration is going to have to do all this data
>> entry. WHO wants to do
>> that? Repeatedly? At all the events? It seems like a
>> lot more work for a
>> system that, although as outdated as the abicus,
>> really, truly works.
>>
>> I want to make it clear: I LIKE the pre-reg idea,
>> and of course, I was
>> typing the above, some other ideas occurred to me,
>> but I am not a
>> programmer, I don't know how to make them happen. I
>> want this to work.
>> I'm just weighing all this stuff out loud, and you
>> poor people are being
>> dragged along my thinking process. I'm sorry.
>>
>> Anyway, despite our antiquated methods, I still
>> maintain that SFR events
>> (along with AAS, NASA, and other old-fashioned
>> clubs) are hands down 100
>> times more efficient than BMWCCA events, unless
>> something has
>> drastically changed.
>>
>> I have been to a BMWCCA event. I don't want to get
>> into all the details,
>> but it just seemed like a lot of work for ONE person
>> to make our lives
>> slightly, but not much more, convenient. Think about
>> this, Don. This one
>> person, I believe, had stayed up until three a.m.
>> (okay, really, really
>> late) handling all the data. And not only that, they
>> didn't start the
>> event until around noon because of course issues,
>> and shoot, by that
>> time, they could have registered 400 people by hand.
>> Ah, shoot, Don, YOU
>> were there!
>>
>> Again, I totally like the pre-reg idea. The question
>> is, would it REALLY
>> speed up registration? That's what I'm hoping, and
>> it's the most
>> important part, never mind making our lives more
>> convenient, which is
>> secondary. I know at the Boondoggle, for example,
>> each year we
>> were/are/will be in deep doodoo at 8:55, because our
>> first run group
>> workers are STILL standing in the registration line
>> - a complete
>> nightmare, making me much older than I really am.
>> So, of course you can
>> see I'm all over any idea that's going to speed up
>> registration and
>> improve the quality of the event. I just REALLY want
>> it to work.
>>
>> I guess I'd have to suggest that the Boondoggle NOT
>> be the beta test
>> event. :)
>>
>> Katie K.
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