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    With all due respect Walter, I am sure we do not know what is going on behind the scenes and know what is needed or wanted. But with a system that is "correctly" built and put in place it shouldn't add any steps in terms of back-end registration and honestly should make back and front end administration twice as easy.
    I am willing to bet that if this system was in place and you left mail/fax/email registration you would see that more than 20% of your members would use it. Thinking that only 20% would use it I think is a bit off. I am also open to hear in what ways in the back-end (because I honestly don't know what is going on) that this would add any additional steps. I find it hard to believe that Nancy enjoys printing out all those forms, organizing them and dealing with all that leading up to a race weekend.

    And in regards to
    Its easy to sit on the outside and look in and think that you know what the club need or doesn't need. The truth is that none of you actually do. Most people barely know what they need or want.
    well I think if the members KNEW what was needed and how they could help you would possibly get more help and offers than if they didn't know.

    Some examples off the top of my head:
    Nancy's back end work load:
    With a system that won't allow for incomplete or invalid forms that should reduce A LOT of her time in that department.
    The need to bring all those paper forms to each and every race, gone. Yes you can get signatures w/o paper for forms.
    Organizing all the printed/emailed forms on Nancy's behalf before the race day, gone. It will all be organized and structured in the system.
    Someone can submit a form at 4am the day before they show up and guess what they are in the system. No need for the cut-off times before traveling to the events because it has to be printed.
    Grid print out, Press a single button done

    @Josh, I don't see how much project management it would take. I deal with project management and application development daily, if the PM has to spend that much time then whoever is doing the work either isnt getting full specs or the developer is ****. Here Josh I built this system for you , go check it out and let me know what you think based on the specs you gave me? If in a year you are telling me you don't have time to do that then I don't know what to say. It should take lets say a week of time here and there tops to create a specs document for a system like this and then its handed off and he can get back to the things that are keeping him busy.
    Last edited by Greg Phillips; 01-15-2014 at 01:08 PM.

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