The UConn Graduate Consulting Team was asked by BiCi Co to identify and create key systems and databases to track membership, inventory, and contacts. Specifically, BiCi Co wanted a membership database to track attendance, equity hours, and membership renewals, as well as a donations/inventory database. Currently, BiCi Co uses Wufoo forms on their website to collect this information, but it is manually entered into spreadsheets. The team's objective is to build a database to automatically store and update membership details from the Wufoo forms. The team researched using MailChimp, MS Access, MySQL, and integrating Wufoo forms with databases. Milestones include creating SQL tables and a plan to use Python scripts on a schedule to

1. UConn Graduate Consulting Team:
Pallavi Singh
Pavithra Ramakrishna Rao
Sujith Vallepalli
Venkatasai Varada
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2. Contents
• BiCi Co Overview
• BiCi Co Expectations from UGC
• Understanding the Process
• Project Objective
• Team Research
• Milestones & Limitations
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3. BiCi Co Process Overview
• BiCi Co. is a community bike space which is designed to cultivate a modern, collective
Hartford focused on sustainable living and transportation.
• BiCi Co Offers :
 DIY Bicycle Repair Hours
 Teen Earn-a-Bike Program
 BiCi Co Women’s Committee
 Bicycles for job Access
• Using these Programs, BiCi Co mission is to increase the Hartford resident mobility
and access to jobs while supporting bicycle skills and safety
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4. BiCi Co Expectations from UGC UConn
Identify and create key systems and databases for the BiCi Co. social enterprise.
• Membership database, attendance at shop, tracking equity member hours,
contacting members via email, membership renewal notices
• Bicycle donations and inventory database.
• Supporters and volunteers database
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5. Understanding As-Is Process
• BiCi Co has Wufoo Forms integrated with Word Press webpage to capture
 Membership details
 Email Signup for Notifications of any event or activities
 Ask any Question or Provide Feedback/Comments
• These details are manually stored in spreadsheet by Program Head
Challenges
 Send Emails to right audience
 Membership Renewal Process
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6. Project Objective
• Build a database to store the Membership details
• Automatically Update the database with the data captured on Wufoo Forms
Project Performance Targets
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7. UGC Team Research
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• Explored Mail Chimp database to implement our Project objective
• Explored MS Access database to build and update the database automatically
• Created Membership forms in MS Access database
• Created sample Forms using Wufoo
• Created Sample Website in WordPress
• Integrated Wufoo forms to sample WordPress website to understand their
functionality
• Installed MySQL Database and created tables
• Analyzed the connectivity between Wufoo forms and Databases
• Scheduling tasks on Windows OS to update MySQL Database periodically using
Phyton

8. • Limitation
 MS Access Database is less secure
 To connect My SQL database with Wufoo form directly, we need 3rd party
connector - Brings in additional cost to project
 Subscription with Mail chimp database adds cost to the project
• UGC Team Milestones
 Created SQL tables for BiCi Co membership details, Contact details and Email &
Info sign up
 BiCi Co team exported the file from Wufoo website and placed in the local
directory
 UGC team is planning to create the scheduler to run the batch jobs at a particular
time integrating python with windows OS
 Scheduler will run regularly and will update the data from exported file into My
SQL database.
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9. THANK YOU
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