I know a few ppl that might be interested in this, and have a good idea of the requirements. I'd be willing to put time into it.
On Friday 22 September 2006 9:22 pm, Shawn wrote: > Having done a little more research, it appears that GEDCOM is a text > based file format, and has limitations/errors. It also appears that the > standard geneology tools out there don't quite do what I'm after. > > So, my choices are: > 1) use an existing tool and deal with it's templates and limitations. > 2) re-purpose another tool to do what I'm looking for, and deal with the > inherent limitations as they come up. > 3) write my own solution. > 4) forget about the project. > > I'm favoring option #3, but do not really have a clear picture of the > requirements (yet). So, anyone want to hammer out the requirements for > a multi user, web based geneology system with me? Maybe with these > requirements we can better evaluate an existing system and save some > development time. > > Shawn > > Shawn wrote: > > Over the years I've taken a quick look at some of the geneology tools > > out there. Thus far, the best I've found is gramps. > > (http://gramps-project.org/) Has anyone found anything better? > > > > What I'm really after is a tool that allows easy management of the data > > by family members scattered around the globe. I know I can "tweak" > > Drupal or Mambo to do the basics of what I need, but then you loose the > > geneology specific features of a tool like Gramps. > > > > If there isn't such a tool out there, anyone know where I can get futher > > details on the GEDCOM file format that gramps (and other tools?) seem to > > use/support. I'm thinking that if I can write a tool to create pages > > from a common data file format I might be able to easily do what I'm > > looking for, and yet change to any tool that may be better. > > > > Thanks for any tips. > > > > Shawn > > > > (of course, I'm doing some web searches as well, but had to start > > somewhere.. :) ) > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
