hey free culturites! I think we should look at changing our chapter database system. The features we want are:
* students can register chapters themselves * room for semantic data (school, current contact name, current contact email, etc) as well as free-form "notes" * when a student registers, they get an email, and so does [email protected] (with some info and an invitation to chat) * export to JSON (or API or something) so that we can tie it in to our website (can settle on this one and write some python to scrape out the data)--fine if our live list is a bit out of date, but not fine if new chapters are failing to make contact, as they are now. Anyone have any ideas? I'm interested in both software that we would run on our servers and in web services that we could use. more info on the current system: ---------------------------------------------- Right now, we use a google spreadsheet, where people join by filling in a standard google spreadshet form, and we look through our list of chapters by opening the spreadsheet. Then we have a python script that runs nightly on our server, looks for new chapters, and if it finds any, sends an email to the person who registered it and to [email protected]. That python script seems to have broken, so people are registering chapters and not hearing back from us. That's majorly lame. If you're interested in helping fix this python script, drop me a line! In general, we need a lot more help maintaining our web services. This involves both technical and non-technical needs. -- http://www.madebyparker.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
