[CS-FSLUG] Church Management Software

[EnzoAeneas]

What about a variant designed with the same principles that runs on OO?
That would allow light-weight deployment to  Linux, Windows, OSX, and Solaris.
The problem with deploying to the desktop is that the data is
difficult to secure and we all tend to forget to backup our data.
How many times have you lost months worth of documents? Me, more than
I want to remember, but the last few times, I had a backup.

For more power and separation, the linux -based solution would be offered.
A turn-key VM image could be deployed to other platforms without
changing the code.


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> EnzoAeneas wrote:
>  > organization and faster access. Information in text files much be read
>  > in order, so searching is terribly slow and inefficient; storage of
>  > large quantities of data in this manner quickly becomes unweildly.
>  > Databases are not only able to deal with larger quantities of data,
>  > searching and find what is needed is far easier and faster (though not
>  > as simple). Some databases even allow storing of their records in text
>  > files, but that is a limited solution and the text files may not be
>  > very usable by a normal person.
>  >
>  > Storage to files in plain text can be implemented as backup or export
>  > quite easily when databases are used, so if text files are useful in
>  > some other way to the user, they can be provided. The creation of
>  > reports and summaries would be necessary anyway, so readable text
>  > files would be generated by the applications.
>  >
>  > As for cost, many popular databases are not only free to use, but open
>  > source and licensed to be free forever. Postgresql is one them.
>  > The plan was to use all free and open source software for this, so
>  > that corporate interests and greed could not interfere with the
>  > project and GOD's work through it.
>  >
>  > That was a good question. Any other concerns?
>
>  I asked awhile ago about using base in OpenOffice and the "rest" of OO
>  for reports, etc. I didn't see any response to that idea. I've played
>  around with base some, and if I knew all that church management software
>  really had to have in it, I'd start work on it around the end of this
>  May............and "get er done." ;) Somehow I have an idea it would do
>  just fine for all the majority of churches, which are small.
>
>  --
>  Fred  "Molon Labe"
>
>
>  A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>  Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>
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