[Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

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On 6/13/06, Stacey <ldsoss at son.org> wrote:
> Justin R Findlay wrote:
> > I agree with Steven here.  The merits of a centralized database seem as
> > though they are just the convenience of data miners and, potentially, of
> > identity thiefs, unless someone can convince me of some great compelling
> > benefit of centralization.
> >
>
> I would also agree with Steven about the concept of a large, centralized
> database for other reasons as well.   If you get outside of Utah you
> will find that most boy scouts are not LDS  (In fact, only about 25% boy
> scouts are LDS from what I have heard).    Here in Texas, we see troops
> that are associated with many other churches or groups.   Some of these
> other groups may only have one troop which really doesn't merit the
> expense and overhead of a large database server.  In fact, I would like
> see a scout/D2G tracking web app use something like SQLite or Berkeley
> DB rather than something with a lot of overhead like even mySQL or
> Postgress.
>
> -stacey.
>

I liked the idea someone mentioned about having a sort of source
control mentality about it all. You can grab a working copy and put it
on your laptop for meetings and then when you are done, you can
"commit" the changes back into the main repository or database. This
could be achieved in a variety of ways.

alex