Re: Introduction

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:17:33PM -0400, Matthew Patton wrote:
> Other applications we are looking to either develop or incorporate
> are a Contact Management system, a Receipting System for managing
> incoming donations, and a financial system for managing non-profit
> finances. One idea we have is to develop all of these systems to use
> a common database, since a considerable amount of the information
> that each application uses will need to be shared.

Many people on this list, myself included, think that this sort of
application is *the* killer app for desktop GNU/Linux in
non-profits. The proprietary equivalent is, of course, ebase which,
while newly free, has extremely non-free (in every sense of the word)
dependencies on filemaker.

There are two projects that have been discussed on this list that seem
to be working on developing something in this area. The first is Info
Central[1] which was introduced on this list in July[2]. It's is a
PHP/MySQL application and is, as a result, webbased. The second is
Calendula[1] which is somewhat younger project announced here in July
as well[4]. The applications seem different in design and goals. I'm
sure both projects would welcome contributions and help. AFAIK,
developers for each read this list.

Regards,
Mako


[1] http://www.infocentral.org/

[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-nonprofit/2003/debian-nonprofit-200307/msg00027.html

[3] http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/calendula/

[4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-nonprofit/2003/debian-nonprofit-200307/msg00042.html

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
[email protected]
http://mako.yukidoke.org/

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