[Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

[Bryan Murdock]

On 6/6/06, Tom Welch <welchtc at ldschurch.org> wrote:
> I used TroopMaster in the past and it did not require me to purchase a
> new license each year.  However that was about 3 years ago and they may
> have changed their pricing plan.  The biggest problem that I had with
> TroopMaster was that it is not easy to share with the next scout master
> that comes into the calling.
>
> At the Church we are looking at sponsoring an open source project around
> scouting.  Any interested people that would like to work on such a
> program?

I'm interested.  When I was scoutmaster the complete lack of a decent
free application really bothered me.  It shouldn't be that hard.  In
fact, I have the embarrassing little beginnings of a desktop scout
tracking application here:

http://ctm.sourceforge.net/

Mostly vaporware.  I was too busy as scoutmaster to work on it, and
now that I'm doing something else I sadly haven't had enough
motivation to do much with it in a long while.  I really think
anything done needs to allow easy collaboration between scoutmaster,
assistant scoutmaster, committee chair, even boys and their parents.
That's where existing scout tracking software really fails.  I
searched high and low and there isn't much out there, especially open
source.  Here's the most active open source project:

http://www.jaynorth.net/?view=scouttracker

I believe the author has posted to this list before.

Also along these lines has anyone see what the BSA is doing with this:

https://scoutnet.scouting.org/iadv/UI/Home/

I haven't tracked down my ward's unit ID yet, so I haven't been able
to check it out.

There is another project that does most of what I figured an online
scout tracking application should do here:

http://etrailtoeagle.com

I don't like that it's not free or open source though.

Bryan