[CS-FSLUG] Missionary Contacts Program - Come Help :-)

[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

Thanks :-)

Also thanks for the thoughts. I envision this being something that would
be offered as a web service to missionaries so they wouldn't have to
have any program installed, skipping the cross-platform issue. I expect
that the service would be provided by the agency.

I'm very interested in learning from your experience in this area so
load it on. Maybe, I'm following too much of the "web services" trend".
Would the ability to download a CSV file with certain contact
information to import into popular addressbook type programs fill the
off-line needs?

If you have any advice for home ministry for technical missions I'd be
interested in hearing that too. :-) Since I'm working both in the US and
as support, I'm expecting to work hard to raise support. I'm also having
trouble figuring out what I can realistically do as a ministry to a
church while my wife and I are visiting with them. I thought maybe a
computer ethics Sunday school class or something.

JSR/

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Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Missionary Contacts Program - Come Help :-)

Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote:
> 
> 
> For those not following my blog, I'm a candidate missionary with
> Fellowship International Mission (FIM). I'd be taking over the support
> of their website and all things technical. That means I'm doing the
> deputation thing, raising support in the form of prayers and funds.

Congratulations on that and welcome to the whole missions experience.
We're on Home Ministry Assignment right now doing more support raising
at this time too.

[snip]
> The long-term vision would be to see this reused as a service FIM (and
> other mission agencies) could provide to their missionaries, so we'd
> need to build in the ability to authenticate users and also identify
> certain information as belonging to the user. 

To be truly useful, it would need to be cross-platform.  Probably 95% of
the missionaries would be using Windows at this time (and another 4.5%
using Macs).  It would need to run locally and not be server based.
Just my quick thoughts.

sjm

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