[Psml] Barriers to Registration

[Barclay M. Thomas]

Markus, et. al.,
I agree that on-line class registration should be made available BUT,  
if the squadron SEO does not 'do' computer (for whatever reason) and  
the Executive Committee (who would/should have the responsibility in  
such case) cannot find a person with the capabilities and willingness  
to field the emails and do the integration with DB2K, then the on- 
line registration should be blocked.
The squadron may lose some prospective students by not having the on- 
line signup, but having the link active and no one to handle the  
queries would be even more damaging. Nothing worse than having a  
student show up for a class only to be told "sorry never got your  
application, no books/space for you".

With all, or most anyway, Boating class and seminar reports going  
back to Nat'l via computer now, someone has to be doing the on line  
stuff anyway so maybe a little persuasion/cajoling/sweet-talking  
might get them to handle the incoming request task as well. I can  
understand though that some members may be unwilling to put their  
email address out there for all to see. Something else for the IT  
folks to work on, but setting up a method for blind links would be  
quite a task for this site I'd think.

-- 
P/C Barclay M. Thomas, AP
Saybrook Squadron, District 1
United States Power Squadrons®
barcthom at sbcglobal.net


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