[Coco] Fwd: Preregister for the CoCoFEST!

[John Mark Mobley]

Barry Nelson,

All information is voluntary, we do not compel anyone to give up
information.
We would like a name and an email address.
A name, address, city, state, zip, phone number, and email is OK too.

The extra, extra voluntary information (that I should not have mentioned)
can not be entered at this time.
We are not sure how to proceed with this, we need more planning.
We may want to separate some information from who it belongs to, in order
to prevent misuse of the information.

Also if we find that 2% of the CoCos are model 2s with true loser case,
that is not be the full story because many people have access to emulators.

Randy Weaver has some ideas of what would be possible but the club need to
some time to think about this.  I have a lot to learn myself.

Our current system has been maintained my Bob Swoger for many years, and
Bob would like for us to continue to use his system.  One thought is to
develop a new system but produce the file that Bobs system needs, so his
system can continue to operate.  I think we want the SQL (Structured Query
Language) relational database to generate a report that build Bob's CSV
(Comma-Separated Values) flat-file database.  That way we have all the new
features of SQL but do not loose any of Bob's reports and work.

We may need some time for Bob to come around to these new idea.  The club
needs time to think about what information we collect, how we collect it,
and how it will be used.

-John Mark Mobley