Amazing Facts

[Rich Littleton]

Good show, Gianni!

Thanks for sharing that info.

Also, thanks for dealing with the database, which can be truly tedious.

Would your database structure be useful to our volunteer efforts?

Later,

Rich

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On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Gianni Truzzi wrote:

> To all of our faithful volunteers:
> 
> I have just completed transferring all of the registration records and
> available donation records into an Access database for easier
> record-keeping by the management company we have just engaged to process
> our registration forms and incoming donations.
> 
> This exercise has been quite eye-opening. The resulting database shows
> the following results of SCN's collective effort over the last five
> years, which I would like to share with you:
> 
>     E-mail accounts:     16,702
>     SCN Users:           15,970 (a person may have more than one
> account).
>     Donations:              6,679 (*)
>     Current Members:  514
> 
> (*) counts only those that came with a registration or were applied to
> an SCNA membership since 12/1/97. Non-registration donations prior to
> that I deemed not material to current needs. If I counted all of them, I
> suspect the number would be nearly double.
> 
> I can't help but reflect on what a staggering achievement this is. Not
> all of those e-mail accounts reflects a currently active and satisfied
> user, of course. But each one of those accounts had to be processed and
> created. That's an enormous number of people who have walked through our
> door.
> 
> Allow me to put this in some perspective. According to a recent article
> in the Seattle Times, Speakeasy boasts 2,200 (paying) users. We, on the
> other hand, are now giving out that many e-mail accounts EACH YEAR! And
> we do all of this with no paid staff. This is *entirely* the product of
> our dedicated volunteers, that is, ALL OF YOU.
> 
> We certainly beat ourselves about the head enough about what we are not
> doing, what we ought to be doing, what we could be doing better. And
> this may be all true. But we seldom look at what we have achieved. We
> should be very, very proud of ourselves. All of us. The fact that we are
> still going after five years is an accomplishment all by itself. In
> addition, we are doing e-mail training, providing modest support, and
> other activities at the same time. This is truly amazing.
> 
> The fact that we have over 500 members (and yes, I know this is down
> from earlier counts), is also very impressive. Any local organization
> would greatly envy such a large membership base.
> 
> I am very proud to be the President of such an incredible group of
> people. In fact, its humbling, and an honor.
> 
> Your servant,
> 
> Gianni Truzzi
> President
> Seattle Community Network Association
> 
> 
> 
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