However, the offline portion of MIS is offline.  The online portion is
fairly well secure.  I don't trust my local scoutmaster or (sorry) the OSS
community to make that assertion.  PHP is about as secure as IE on a bad
day...

The distinction here is that MIS does not have personal information about
likes, hobbies, awards, projects, etc.  An online scouting tracking program
would have more similarities with "myspace.com" than with the MIS.  That's a
huge distinction.

In order to begin to think about an online database/app, you would be
required to allow parents to "opt out".  As soon as one parent opted out,
the online database would be more work for the Scoutmaster than it would be
worth and they'd stop using it.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manfred Riem
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:42 AM
To: 'LDS Open Source Software'
Subject: RE: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

Hi Gary,

Actually I think without wanting to start a legal debate about
it this would be covered by you as a parent allowing your kids
to be entered in the MIS already. 

Manfred.

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