Transcript Introduction

District And Club database
DACdb User Group Meeting
Denver Colorado
October 2015
Come Together…….
DACdb Management Team

Mark Landmann



Jamie Lowery



VP of Development and Operations
20+ years operations, Lockheed Martin, Tanning
Peter Gallanis



DACdb Development / Sales and Support
35+ years, CIO Tanning, Chief Engineer Jeppesen, United
Airlines
VP Technical Architect / Development
35+ years, Covia, Gallileo, Tanning, Aha
Ed Foster


Manager of Support
8+ year DACdb user
DACdb Team

Lin Kelly



Heather Brandt


Marketing Director
Sylvia Soden


Super Cool Developer – Websites
Kyleigh Shipp


Dues and Attendance Support
John Ramon


DACdb Support (part-time) going to full time
Long time DACdb user
Subscription Specialist – DACdb Billing
Mike Soden

Custom Website Developer
Where is DACdb?
73% USA
24% World
100+ Districts
6,500 clubs
Plus:
- South Africa
- India
DACdb Background

2003


July 2006



Mike Thacker / Mark Landmann Partnership
Did business under Simply-the-Best, Inc.
Oct 2014



Started 11+ years ago – Rotary District 7710
Mark purchased DACdb from Mike (Mike retired)
DACdb, LLC. formed (Colorado)
2015 Focus



New User Interface
DACdb University - Training
Additional Documentation
Logistics

Tonight – Patio Party



Friday






Dinner at the Marriot
Birthday celebration - Suite
Saturday


Some drinks and lite appetizers
Dinner on your own
Dinner at Hickory House
Open house
Sunday – 1:1 with DACdb Team
Sunday – Rideshare / transportation to the airpot
Sunday – BBQ at my house

Bronco Game
Basic Flow of the Meeting

Thursday


Introductions
Covering what has been on the system for a while

Saturday

Saturday


Websites
Not Ready for Prime Time
DRINK WATER !!!!!
A FEW THINGS YOU SHOULD
KNOW
Technology – Behind the scene

Adobe ColdFusion

Microsoft MS SQL

Microsoft IIS

Windows Server 2008

jQuery / JavaScript

PHP

Over 1,800,000+ lines of code

~18,000 pages of code

Over 14 years of development
Its all one Database !
Zone
District
Area
Club
Member
Single point of data (e.g., phone number or email)
2015 FOCUS
New User Interface!
DACdb University
Improved Help/Documentation
UI Changes

Principles behind the design:








Clean
Consistent
Appropriate use of white space and colors
Things will behave as we expect
More user configuration and control options
Tablet Support (Droid / iPad)
Improved printing
Improved formatting to Word and/or Excel
New User Interface (UI)
Already found in:
- Grants
- Ignite
- Backroom
- AG Area
- Files