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From: "Timothy Rogers" <trogers@srv1.mech.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Mechanical Engineering
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Subject: Conducting a Census
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There seems to be support for the idea of conducting a census. The
question now is how do we conduct the census and what information do
we want to obtain from it.
Here's a suggestion:
1) We design a form containing the information, ready for a database
which can collate whatever results are required.
2) Each club distributes forms to each of their players, who fill the
forms in.
3) Each club then either enters the data into a file on the
particular database we use, or they send all the written data to the
BUF.
4) The BUF then concatenates the files, or enters in the raw
data into the central database. They could subcontract a company
to do this task or even hire someone as a temporary employee.
5) Data can then be distributed across the community.
Obviously, there will be a considerable cost involved, reflecting all
the time needed to manage the data. So I propose that each player
registered sends a squid for the data entry cost of his/her details.
A pound isn't that much money, and if someone makes a bit of cash out
of the census it wouldn't bother me if everything was done properly.
I don't know, 50p might be more appropriate. The advantage of this
scheme of generating the cash, is that people know what the money is
being spent on rather than being put into some general bureaucracy.
Does anyone know anything about databases?
Tim
RSB
Soup
Tim Rogers
PhD Student
Manufacturing Planning Group
School of Mechanical Engineering
University of Edinburgh
email: trogers@srv1.mech.ac.uk