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Individuals who are interested in the historic observatory and the associated renovation and restoration efforts.
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Friday, June 25, 2004
MHO Team:
From the Desktop of the Director.
Patrick Seitzer writes:
>
> hi Edwin and fellow McMath-Hulbert revolutionaries -
>
> Max number of members for starters - 1023. 128 seems a bit small, so
> let
> us dream big. Hopefully most of those 1023 live in Australia - they send
> us money, we send them emails...
>
> Dave Benham, whom I've copied on this email, is working on getting the
> quicken database of active members uptodate. (David - one requirement is
> a monthly summary report with info like - total number of paid-up members,
> new members last month, members dropped, etc).
>
> What would be fantastic is some way of seamlessly tying all this
> together
> so minimal intervention is required. Try to minimize the extra work for
> all.
>
> Example - suppose someone new signs up and the membership Secretary
> gets a
> check. He/She sends a message to have an email generated with a unique
> name and password, and that person is added to the email distribution
> list.
>
> Now suppose someone hasn't paid their dues on time. Somehow an email
> has
> to be generated to remind them to pay, and after an appropriate length of
> time, a second email is sent announcing that they have been dropped from
> active membership, and their login on the web site is disabled (No Free
> Lunch!).
>
> How to do this with the minimum amount of human intervention, so we can all spend more time playing at the Observatory.
>
> We can not be the first club who has tried to do something like this - is
> there any existing software to do this stuff? Shareware?
>
>
> regards, Pat
>
> (Edwin - my apologies on the name.)
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Edwin Lewis wrote:
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>> Everyone,
>>
>> I have contaced Bill (see the cc'd list above) and I
>> will work with him to get some security together for
>> the members section very soon.
>>
>> Going forward how many people do we think we should
>> maintain (for the list) and how much growth (and consequently
>> updating to the list) will we expect...just a ballpark would be
>> nice...I would like to just build something that is scalable as we
>> grow and doesn't require a lot of extra work because we got
>> to big :)
>>
>> FYI:
>>
>> I prefer either Edwin or "e" but I am not to fond of Ed....makes me
>> think of Mr.Ed and I just want to blurt out "Well I just don't know,
>> Wilburrrrr!"
>>
>> e
>>
>>
>>
>> --- bill@bblevins.com wrote:
>> > From: bill@bblevins.com
>> > To: Edwin Lewis
>> > Subject: Re: Very smooth
>> > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:23:47 -0700
>> >
>> > Hi, Ed
>> >
>> > I don't know anything about Volkswagens! :))
>> >
>> > Here's the specs on ReadyHosting.
>> >
>> > http://www.readyhosting.com/hosting.cfm
>> >
>> > I'm getting the Control Panel access info from Dan Pesserl. He set
>> > up the hosting. We can request a password protected
>> > directory through the control
>> > panel and configure who accesses it with a simple
>> > config text file. Or go
>> > with the code route you mentioned.
>> >
>> > Bill
>> >
>> >
>> > Edwin Lewis writes:
>> >
>> > > Bill, this is about you and I getting to gether to
>> > > solve this issue. Have you gotten any information together since
>> > > the meeting?
>> > >
>> > > Edwin
>> > >
>> > >> Ed - we desparately need a members only section
>> > of
>> > >> the web site. In the
>> > >> long run we will want each paid up member to have
>> > a
>> > >> unique login name and
>> > >> password. That way, if they don't pay up, they
>> > >> loose access.
>> > >>
>> > >> But for the moment a single site login and
>> > password
>> > >> will do.
>> > >>
>> > >> I can't remember the name of our current MHO
>> > >> webmaster. Can someone help
>> > >> me?
>> > >>
>> > >> Pat
>> > >>
>> > >> (I have a 1973 VW Beetle. Needs new engine. Any suggestions on
>> > >> where to have this done? I stopped by Steve's VW on a
>> > recent
>> > >> visit to MHO and
>> > >> talked to them. Wondering about alternatives.)
COMMENTS PLEASE?
Best,
Jim Ross
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