[CS-FSLUG] Church Management Software

[EnzoAeneas]

Downloading the latest OpenOffice.org and looking at the release notes
OO has come a long way since I last evaluated as a framework.
I will try it from the "document" perpsective, then look at it again
from the framework perspective, and then we can evaluate what the
strengths of each are and what can be gained from a middle ground of
the two.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:17 AM, EnzoAeneas <enzoaeneas at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no objection: I use it myself. I can make a prototype
>  membership tracking app in it. I'll post it to launchpad when it's
>  done.
>  What features should it have? Wanna help? I'll be up fpr a while. If
>  you have a gmail account, I am enzoaeneas at gmail dot com. I also use
>  AIM.
>
>  --Kevin
>
>  On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
>  > EnzoAeneas wrote:
>  >  > 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.
>  >
>  >  [snip]
>  >
>  >  Why not just use OO......at least try it. Simple, complete, localized,
>  >  and transportable.
>  >
>  >  Fred
>  >
>  >  --
>  >
>  >
>  > 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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