[Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

[Bryan Murdock]

On 6/6/06, Tom Welch <welchtc at ldschurch.org> wrote:
>
>  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.

If you have read my sourceforge project vaporware description that's
exactly the road I was thinking of starting down.  Committee meetings
and scoutmaster conferences are two of the places where the tracking
software would be very helpful, but connectivity likely not available.

I wonder if a "think client" is even necessary.  Could the web
application offer a csv file of data for download that could be edited
with excel or oocalc and then re-uploaded?

Bryan