[EQAB-list] input list for Thursday

[Fred L Stephens]

We have to change our strategy for collapsing the citizen input if so 
that we can be ready for Thursday. I propose that this cannot be 
accomplished by one or 2 people by Thursday. Even 3 people.

Athanasia was out of commission on Friday. Robert and I worked Sunday 
but did not get as much accomplished as we had imagined. He is 
working on the "Water" section still.

New proposal: I recommend that I export the separate sections back to 
Excel spreadsheets - with permanent IDs associated with the original 
input. I have all of the original input preserved on one database 
with the same permanent IDs. Robert and I were collapsing input by 
first combining similar or related ideas. We marked the "old" records 
with a "Merged Into" column that identifies where the idea was 
APPENDED. You can move your Excel sheet rows as you like to help you 
organize. You don't dare touch the permanent numerical ID. (It is not 
a line count.)  You could vote to discard an idea by putting a zero 
into the Merged Into column.

Once this is done. I can re-import the data into the database and 
link tables to keep all related records organized.

Obviously some scribes can get this done and some cannot. Some of us 
will have to do other sections.

Please vote. Offer other suggestions.

Fred L. Stephens
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
865-300-8566 cell
email: freds7 at dancingcreek.com