[NCNCA] Proposed BAR/BAT changes

[Russ Watts]

I have a little insight to this, I inquired a bit about the program last
year when our club was looking for software. The system does run on Windows.

I think SoCal offers a "Full Service" option whereby they send a team and do
the whole reg to results process (for a fee of course), or you can do it
yourself with their software (still a fee, but less the labor component).
The key is that once the race is complete, you find an internet connection
and the results are sent to the "master" server for posting (some savvy
people may actually do this right from the race site).  This is where I
think it gets sticky...  Their solution relys on the race data being sent to
their specially configured servers.  So to utilize this system, we would
need to link all results to them or integrate our our web efforts with them.
As I understand it, Eric Smith offered us a deal a while back but it never
got any "traction" up here.

Regards
Russ Watts
RioStrada Racing, Sacramento


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Connelly" <djconnel at yahoo.com>
To: "Russ Watts" <rwatts at rlwconsults.com>
Cc: "Roger Marquis" <marquis at roble.com>; <ncnca at ncnca.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [NCNCA] Proposed BAR/BAT changes


> Russ Watts wrote:
> > Develop registration and results S/W? Why?  SoCal already has a working
> > system!  Why can't we just "subscribe" to their system and and help that
> > system evolve?  Then you eliminate the need to get "Seed" money and
spend
> > years developing software that never measures up to its need.  Its at
least
> > worth serious consideration.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Russ Watts
> > RioStrada, Sacramento
> >
>
>
> I fully support this approach.  We need to find someone who has
> experience with SoCal's system, then...
>
> I don't run a windows environment, so anything windows-specific, I can't
> help with, unfortunately.
>
> Dan
>