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From: "Timothy Rogers" <trogers@srv1.mech.ed.ac.uk>
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Andy,
> what do you actually want to find out?
At the very least:
1) How many people play ultimate.
2) Where people live.
3) What team they play for.
Can add to this to find stuff like age, how many tournys go to etc.
Whether they are prepared to subscribe to the BUA.
>how do you intend distributing it?
The BUF can store the data, peoples addresses etc. Any
statistical results from the census can be put on the BUF home page.
>It might give you a very specific
>picture of the state of Ultimate at the moment, but won't tell you
>anything about why people leave the sport.
I don't agree. By looking at data over successive years, one can
determine which groups of people are leaving the sport. Stuff like:
age, just left university, if people have moved to areas where there
is no ultimate, break up and reforming of teams etc.
>- what do you intend doing with it?
At the moment, many people who leave university or move to a new area
end up without a team. Through the BUF they can find out who plays
in their local area, or anywhere else for that matter. The main task
is to make sure everyone who wants to continue playing ultimate can
play ultimate.
Monitor the growth of ultimate. As I said in my previous emails the
growth at the moment is larger than ever. If we don't reorganise
then British ultimate as it is currently structured (I mean
implicit as well as explicit structure) will not be able to cope.
The net result will probably just be that the sport will not grow.
>are any of the clubs or BUF in a position to change the
>organisation,motivation, recruitment, etc?
I don't see why clubs and the BUF are not in a position to change the
organisation. As for motivation, I can only say that if you want to
go to party you have to have a party! There are some who won't
bother, but there are plenty of people more motivated.
Finally, I think we have to careful not to make a 'mountain
out of a molehill'. Its not something that needs to be done
professionally to target a particular market. However, there is a
cost incurred in the data entry, as we cannot expect members of the
BUF to sit up in the small hours and type in details of 2000 odd
ultimate players.
Tim
RSB
Soup
Tim Rogers
PhD Student
Manufacturing Planning Group
School of Mechanical Engineering
University of Edinburgh
email: trogers@srv1.mech.ac.uk