I would believe this to be a must, not only should we be tracking our
volunteers, but also relating them to skill sets, donations, etc.  Think of
how easy it would be come March of next year when all you have to do is query
your database to generate charitable donation receipts (I know, I think like
an accountant ;)

In addition, we should also track our customers (ie. those that come to
installfest for help)  As accurate information will lead to increased funding
(I am missing out on a bunch of funding because I have no information on who
has been coming to our ASU installfests, -- Then again, I have very little
info on the ASULUG members as well) 

But really, having this sort of information makes planning so much
easier!!  As a mater of fact, some one from PLUG did ASULUG a huge favor in
prior installfest by creating custom ASU/P LUG Knoppix CD's,  I would like to
have this done again, but I can not figure out who did it (I had a few leads,
but they all denied responsibility ;)
If I had the DB, I would not have to ask around, I cold just email the people
who did it before and see if they would be able to do it again, and only after
that fails hunt for some one willing to create a custom disk.

BTW, If you are reading this, ASULUG would love to hand out custom Knoppix
disks again this installfest (April 23)  ;)


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> I've just read over last week's emails, and am quite impressed. I think 
> that Trent has a good handle and approach on a methodology.
> 
> None the less, I'd like to suggest a third, relatively trivial, possible 
> project.
> 
> As a subset of the Installfest project, I'd like to see a database of 
> information about installfest volunteers, which would enable 
> participants to find the appropriate people for answers to the myriad of 
> questions that inevitably pop up. Kind of a "who's who" and "who knows 
> what" application. This could be be applied to plug members in general 
> too (and even installfest participants). Once in place, I think that 
> each volunteer or plug member could maintain their own information via 
> the web site.
> 
> The database should provide two basic outputs. First is a 
> searchable/sortable list of people, and second would be some sort of 
> name tags. Personally, I'm terrible with names, and I think that they'd 
> be a nice addition to installfests, and meetings too.
> 
> Thoughts / ideas?
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
> "There is no such thing as the People;
>   it is a collectivist myth.
>   There are only individual citizens
>   with individual wills
>   and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>      Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>   "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
> 
> 
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