This is a partial list of the folks with expertise around the country. Many of them can be found at Joe Dehn's mailing list, lpus-data@dehnbase.org, where you should come or send a rep if you have questions or problems about handling your LP data. Write to Joe at jwd3@dehnbase.org to be added to the list. -- Compiled by Bonnie Scott No claims as to current accuracy or helpfulness of these folks for your particular problem are made. Try the lpus-data group for best results. -------- * Alabama Data person (as of Dec 2002) Craig Presson took over from Stephen Dow Stephen Dow "was able to set up an Access database to import the monthly dumps from LPHQ and create mailing lists and what we call district lists, but I am no DB expert." ---- * California Joe Dehn All hail the Keeper of our Institutional Memory! Please forgive his gruffness: he does more work than 100 randomly-selected LP members, combined. See: http://www.dehnbase.org/ Juan Ros evaluated donor packages at one time and forwarded his comments Mark F. Murphy http://www.tyrell.com --- * Connecticut Dan Fitzgerald (503)939-4326 I also happen to do databases as my day job, and have experience with conversions, architecture, fund raising/donor tracking packages (Benefactor and QSI, the package used by most of the Jewish Federations in the country), and even telemarketing dialers (Telathena). I also have experience with some data warehousing/ETL (extract, transform, and load) tools, like DataStage, of which I have a licensed personal copy (VERY handy in a conversion). (He also ran for State Senate in Ct in 1998, US Senate in Oregon in 2002). ------- * D.C. Nick Dunbar: former LP Datameister-in-Chief Nick was the overworked Operations Manager who was responsible, among many other things, for geting your state its membership data. ------- * Georgia: Ben Scherry, webmaster PHP, web stuff. In/near Atlanta. Stephen Touset from the lpcampusactivist list He likes PHP and Ruby for web pages "I personally have used phpBB2, which I find to be incredibly good...I'd be more than happy to do some of the more menial website labor, like editing content, etc. (for CampusActivism.org) ---- * Ohio Andrew Kvochick University of Toledo (aka Socialist's/Green's World HQ) I haven't looked at the CampusActivist site, but I work for a service provider as an administrator. We have quad-processor intel machines for web servers (soon to be replaced with macs :), mac g4's for database servers, redunadant storage, blah blah blah. I'm sure I could get them to host the site. I'm also sure I could set it up. ... I added a database to the Yahoo! Groups site. It's to keep track of all the campus groups. Add your group. Someone might find it useful and/or interesting. -- Minnisota: Chair Kevin Houston has used Visual FoxPro, among other technologies. --- *Missouri Thomas Knapp --- * New York Dave Harnett Chief datameister for the LPNY, managing the member data in an Access database. Bonnie Scott editor: http://ny.lp.org/ mailing list manager for LPNY prefers Unix (any flavor), loves Perl and PHP for webpages; database and other misc. unix sysadminning experience; can also fix up Windows machines (or Macs) if motivated properly We have an abnormal number of APL programmers, as well: Blay Tarnoff, Bob Armstrong, and perhaps even a third one. Jodie Kahn works for a major online ad agency and can be consulted about placing targetted ads on high-traffic websites. ---- * Pennsylvania John Famularo Knows FoxPro, wrote a version of HQ DB software at one point. (A long story.) Has valuable insight about the HQ workflow, dataflow, requirements, etc. * Tennessee Jonathan Wright uses Perl scripts (YAWPS) on their website. webmaster@lptn.net * Texas Jason Gray. Accountant and programmer. Transitioned LPHQ to Quickbooks. Mark Givens Created Rock the System website, http://www.rockthesystem.com * Washington State DC Collins --- Others: Michael Doughty - likes MySQL Bill Woolsey Tom Davis Kyle Amon Ken Mosher Magdalena Donea ; ICQ #2338682; Yahoo! Messenger, "urlgirl" "Kevin P. Tyson" - interested in data dictionary I am a programmer and I have spent two years developing Home Inspection Software. www.easyinspector.com John Bates