[Ldsoss] LDS OSS Framework

[Jay Askren]

There was quite a bit of talk about the Scouting open source software.  The
Emergency Preparedness project I'm working on has many of the same issues:

http://jay.askren.net/emergency/


For our users, sometimes they may be online other times they may not be.  I
chose not to create a web application in order to avoid security concerns
and to make installation easier.  I make use of web services in my app.
Currently, I just use the web services to do geocoding so I can add GIS
capabilities, but I was thinking about using them for other things as well.
It seems that at the heart of both of these apps and other potential LDS OSS
apps, they do the same thing.  They store information about some people in
the ward and potentially people not in the ward and allow the users to edit
the information.  They may have other tools built on top of the basic
functionality.

It would be nice to build a basic LDS-OSS system that was just a framework
that took care of the common concerns of LDS applications, and then plugins
could be built to address specific problems.  The core system might for
instance take care of reading information from MLS, interacting with an
embedded database, printing, making installation and updating of the
software easy, and who knows what else.  Plugins might be added to store
domain specific information(Boy Scout stuff versus Emergency Preparedness
info, etc...), add GIS capabilities, sync with a database at Church
Headquarters using web services, and whatever else would need to be added in
the future.  That way other apps could take advantage of the various
plugins.  Does anyone have interest/experience building this kind of plugin
based system?  What do people think?
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