[Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

[Manfred Riem]

Sounds good to me. The only thing is the security issue of maintaining
access 
to the repository.
 
Manfred.

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[mailto:ldsoss-bounces at lists.ldsoss.org] On Behalf Of Tom Welch
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking


My thoughts were to create a central repository (whether hosted by the
church or individually would be up for debate) and then we could provide
several ways to access that data.

1.  We (the community) could provide a SOAP or other interface to the data
so that people could write thick client applications and synchronize their
data with the central repository.  I've actually done this quite
successfully with some other applications and it works VERY well.  So you
can run independent of the server but when you go "back online" you can
"sync" your data.  If a person chose to never "work online" that would work
fine as well.

2.  We could create an application that only runs on a local machine but has
good import/export capability so you can share your data with a new scout
master or leader.  This approach would not have the collaboration features
but solves the privacy issues.

Tom

Gary Thornock wrote: 

--- Tom Welch  <mailto:welchtc at ldschurch.org> <welchtc at ldschurch.org> wrote:

  

Dan Hanks wrote:

    

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Tom Welch wrote:



      

could also have a plug-in type system for working with the

various religious awards as well (Duty to God for LDS) which

would then allow other Scouting groups to take advantage of

it without tying it to just LDS Scouting.

          

Yes, DTG is on the map to integrate into this program.  The

thoughts were to create some kind of a web based application

so that parents, scout leaders and boys can all work

together.

        

Web-based would be great, but with the church's policy on

non-official websites, where does that put the local unit that

would want to install and use such a web-based app?



-- Dan

      

These are issues that are currently being debated.  More soon!



Tom

    



I have a couple of other concerns with a web-based app.  One, of

course, is the privacy and security issue.  Do we want to create

an application where we (in theory, at least) need to have signed

permission forms from all of the parents, because we're putting

their kids' information online?  Password access controls are all

fine and good, but the concern doesn't go away.



There's also the issue of portability, by which I mean physical

portability, not cross-platform portability.  Running TroopMaster

in Virtual PC is a bit of a pain, but having it on my Powerbook

when I go to meetings with the Scoutmaster, the committee or the

parents (regardless of the absence of an internet connection in

the meeting) is half the value of using it in the first place.

Granted, I could easily install a LAMP app on my Powerbook, too,

but should that be necessary?



- Gary





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