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by tooshel 5784 days ago
I'll help a local little league team set up a registration system so parents can register online instead of with paper. The result will be that the registration process will go much faster on registration days and the organizers won't have to shuffle 300 sheets of paper and type it all into Excel. It may mean we go with someone else's solution but they usually cost more than the web budget and require the use of credit cards for payments (and you have to charge parents more to handle the extra fees). I want to also minimize the hosting charges for the team and move them to a cheaper host (maybe using Wordpress instead of the team software they have now but no one uses) and set up accounts so the parents (or at least more than just some designated web guy who never wants to do anything because he's too busy) can add content to the site.

The reason I can't buy my own ticket is, well, I'm unemployed at the moment. It's good in that I have time to go to the conference in the first place but bad in that I'll have to stay in a cheap hotel (and the flight is free thanks to my wife who works for an airline).