Attendance

Owner:Jack Garner

Use the ACM Website has a built-in survey system to create a survey before each meeting. Important data points to collect are:

• Name
• Is this your first time at ACM? If so, how did you hear about ACM?
• How did you find out about the event? (This is especially useful for tech talks.)

In addition to these, collect any other metrics you want. In general, make everything except for name optional. We don’t want people to skip filling out the survey because they’re overwhelmed by the number of fields that they have to fill out.

Also, in the root of this repository there is the acm_membership.py script, which can be useful in exporting a CSV of ACM members. It is important to upload this CSV to http://www.acm.org/chapters/chapters/interface before April/May of each year. This needs to be done as part of completing the Chapter Annual Report. The process is relatively simple:

• Login as an admin to http://acm.mines.edu
• Get the value of the “authtkt” cookie
• Run the script with arguments:
  • Cookie value
  • First survey id to consider
  • Last survey id to consider
  • Output CSV filename
• After completing, the script will output a list of names that could not be resolved. Fix as many as possible without driving yourself crazy, and add them to the CSV.
• Upload to http://www.acm.org

As of May 2018, the script works like a charm. The last survey processed for the 2017/2018 year was #26.

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