[sudo-discuss] Fwd: Urgent! Do you know how to use FileMaker? Or know someone who might know how to use it?! (Re: Sending out Questionnaires)

[Lesley Bell]

https://pypi.org/project/PyFileMaker/

PyFileMaker is a thing if it needs to stay in FileMaker.

You can also export most data from FileMaker as a spreadsheet.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 10:05 PM Ed Biow <biow at riseup.net> wrote:

> The Alameda Green Party could use a hand.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileMaker
>
> Looks like it runs on Windows & MacO$. It sort of runs in Wine:
> https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=337
>
> Greg, I'm forwarding this to the sudoroom list, maybe there are folks
> there who know FileMaker and would be willing to pitch in.
>
> I don't do Windohs, but if you can't find anyone else to do this maybe I
> could take a throw at helping a little if I can get the trial version of
> "share"ware version to run under Wine in Linux.
>
> https://www.claris.com/trial/
> https://downloads.tomsguide.com/Pro-FileMaker,0301-2492.html
>
> Notify me if you can't find anybody actually competent.
>
> Ed
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        Urgent! Do you know how to use FileMaker? Or know someone
> who
> might know how to use it?! (Re: Sending out Questionnaires)
> Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:06:24 +0000 (UTC)
> From:   Greg Jan <gregjan4 at yahoo.com>
> To:     Green Party of Alameda County Council <
> countycouncil at lists.riseup.net>
>
>
>
> All,
>
> It's now going to be very difficult for the person who has sent out most
> of our Voter Guide questionnaires for previous elections, for many years
> now, to again do so this year.  So we now _urgently need to find one (or
> more) other people to help out with this_!  It's currently set up in
> FileMaker, so it would be best to find someone who knows how to use that
> program, if possible.  (Or -- you can use another program, or even do it
> "manually", if you'd like to).
>
> The deadline for questionnaires to be written and submitted to be sent
> out is Monday, August 3rd, and the candidate filing deadline is Friday,
> August 7th.  We should therefore be able to obtain the candidates'
> official contact info on approximately Tuesday. August 11th, so
> questionnaires can be sent out just as soon as we've loaded that data
> into the program.  (And we might even load in some "unofficial" contact
> info prior to receiving the official contact info).
>
> We ask the candidates to RSVP that they've received the questionnaire,
> but usually only about half of them do that, so you'll then send out the
> questionnaire again to the remaining candidates, and then after that
> you'll send a phone-calling list to our volunteer to telephone the ones
> who still haven't RSVP'd.  And finally, at the "end of the process",
> when the deadline to return the questionnaire passes (about 10 days
> after they're sent out), for those who haven't yet returned it, you'll
> email them a notice to please return it right away, and then after that,
> another phone list for our volunteer to telephone them to please return
> their questionnaire.
>
> So -- _please reply back right away if you can help out with this_!  /Or
> if you know someone who might be able to help (and who is
> "trustworthy"), please do ask them! / (Or of course, if you have any
> questions, please do ask!).
>
> Thanks so much!,
> Greg
> 510-644-2293
>
>
>
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