Membership Database/Editing
From PCSAR
The Membership Database is edited by Sabrina Ryans. Other people that have done this task: Rose Bonertz, Susanna MacGarva, Diann Piwek, Dick Burnham, Adam Grose, Brett Wuth, Bob Costa.
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[edit] Process
[edit] Sources
Gather your list of changes that need to be made to the membership database:
- review any e-mails you may have received about updates
 - Review the call-out list in the membership binder for changes
 - Review the personnel records in the membership binder
 -  Review decisions of the board about membership statuses and newly approved members
- Any changes (e.g. an applicant becoming an associate member) should be added, not deleting the old membership information. This is a requirement of the Alberta Society Act.
 
 -  Collect the sign-in sheets from PCSAR incidents and events
- These may be passed directly to the Membership Coordinator/Administrator by the event organizer / Search Manager
 - Some sheets may be left in the Membership Binder
 - Rope Rescue and Swiftwater Rescue trainings are recorded in a binder marked "Joint Rope Rescue" on the ground floor of the Fire Hall in a bookshelf opposite the door to the washroom.
 - Some committees record their attendance in the meeting records:
 
 
[edit] Edit existing records
Edit the membership records on the secure part of the wiki.
- existing membership records
 - See formatting instructions for the kinds of changes to make.
 - Attended a course
 
[edit] New Members and Applicants
-  new members or applicants should be added in a similar fashion, namely
- If information on the new member is received by e-mail, print it.
 - Place the original form or the printed e-mail in the membership binder. Keep it there until the personnel record is printed to replace it. That way if there is a delay in printing, the member can continue to update this draft document.
 -  On your personal page, or in a Sandbox add the line:
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* {{member|John Doe}} -  using the person's name instead of 
John Doe. 
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 - Follow the link to the new member's page. You should be in the edit box, with a blank template ready to be filled in.
 - Fill in the information and save the page.
 
 
[edit] Activities
Add any newly recorded activities to the Activities page.
[edit] Notification
Once you have completed the update of the Membership Database, contact the Technology Committee so they can process it.
[edit] D4H
Brett Wuth has abandoned development of a java application for structured editing of the database using a graphical user interface (MembershipDatabaseEditorTask). Instead he is working on integrating D4H.
[edit] Tasks
- receive changes
 - type changes
 - validate database: Validate Membership Database Task
 
[edit] Log
See Log

