Re: CFC Member Inactivity/Lack of Interest in CFC Program
You might think I'm here to criticize, but no. Not I.
I'm going to tell you what it cost to do the ratings for the correspondence club the 10 or 11 years I directed events. The last number of years it was around 700 members. The ratings were done on paper without computers. My events, like Canadian opens, ran in the hundreds of entrants. All the events had a lot of players. Non members used to be invited to play in Canadian Opens for a very small entry fee kindly advertised by the chess editors in their newspaper columns.
The rating statisticians over those years were volunteers who did it for free. I mailed them the results and they kindly did the calculations on the players rating file.
You might think this kind of volunteer work is isolated but it's not. I directed ICCF events for years. Hundreds of players and games at a time. All over the world. There was no pay or honourium or whatever it would be called. My receipts for stamps were reimbursed, when I remembered to send them, but what was it.
I was paid a token amount for organizing for the CCCA but not as well as the CFC paid their business manager. What I got went to the secretary and main typist.
I'd like to think it worked because of my pleasant personality and easy going ways.
Originally posted by Fred McKim
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I'm going to tell you what it cost to do the ratings for the correspondence club the 10 or 11 years I directed events. The last number of years it was around 700 members. The ratings were done on paper without computers. My events, like Canadian opens, ran in the hundreds of entrants. All the events had a lot of players. Non members used to be invited to play in Canadian Opens for a very small entry fee kindly advertised by the chess editors in their newspaper columns.
The rating statisticians over those years were volunteers who did it for free. I mailed them the results and they kindly did the calculations on the players rating file.
You might think this kind of volunteer work is isolated but it's not. I directed ICCF events for years. Hundreds of players and games at a time. All over the world. There was no pay or honourium or whatever it would be called. My receipts for stamps were reimbursed, when I remembered to send them, but what was it.
I was paid a token amount for organizing for the CCCA but not as well as the CFC paid their business manager. What I got went to the secretary and main typist.
I'd like to think it worked because of my pleasant personality and easy going ways.
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