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.
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