[Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

[Tom Welch]

If the Church were to host the site, would that alleviate your 
concerns?  Currently you can get a ward listing of all members in the 
ward, their address and phone numbers from the ward unit website.  This 
would not be much different. 

Tom

Steven H. McCown wrote:
> I can appreciate all the fervor for a web-based app.  However, 
>
> 1) The church has said no websites.  You can't get away with making the
> "this is scouting and that is the church" distinction, anymore.  
>
> 2) It is a legal problem to start posting information about minor children
> to the Internet.  That would have to be decided at Church HQ and not by the
> local units.  They don't even allow information to be posted into Family
> Search about living people, they just insert a "LIVING" placeholder.  Being
> involved with security professionally, I would not give my consent.  This is
> a huge pitfall -- despite good intentions -- it would be wise not to fall
> into it.
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ldsoss-bounces at lists.ldsoss.org
> [mailto:ldsoss-bounces at lists.ldsoss.org] On Behalf Of Dan Hanks
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:04 AM
> To: LDS Open Source Software
> Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking
>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Tom Welch wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
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Tom Welch
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