Problems managing membership data on the Consortium for Language Policy and Planning

[Harold Schiffman]

Don,

Thanks; you're right that the information, especially for people who joined
years ago, is not current. I sometimes update things if I get information
about a change of some sort, but I often discover changes only by
accident--someone moves to another institution, resubscribes, and I don't
know about it unless I read through the whole dbase of 400+ members.  But I
don't mind the work that's involved; I wish we had funding to hire a
programmer, but my efforts to get $$ have not borne fruit, and now that I'm
retired (and after my recent heart attack) I've had to curtail some
activities.  If things get more difficult, I will have to ask someone else
to take over, but for now I'm okay.

We're going to save the dbase and put it up somewhere else, where it will be
safer, but for now I'm not sure where that will be.  I could venture into
Yahoo groups or Google groups, but I think we'd lose people who don't know
how to manage that kind of stuff.

Hal

On Feb 8, 2008 10:13 PM, Don Osborn <dzo at bisharat.net> wrote:

> Dear Hal, The list and website are valuable resources. My only concern is
> that they both rely on one person (you) to keep them going.
>
> • Please let me know if you personally wish this database to be somehow
> available, somewhere, i.e. I need to know the following:
> o Have you ever consulted it?
>        Yes, but not recently
>
> o Do you find it useful?
>        Yes, and I anticipate using it again, but with all databases there
> is a question from the user point of view of the currency of the data, and
> from the manager's p.o.v. how to maintain it.
>
> o Do you think it has ever been compromised?
>        No, but that is an opinion not from extensive or recent use.
>
> Thanks for asking and for continuing to manage CLPP.
>
> Don
>
>
>


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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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