How many scoutmasters are going to have the skills to set up their own database? Is this going to be an app that everybody can use or one that will require a geek scoutmaster to set up and maintain? Is this for 5% of the population or 95%?
Offering a fully functional website that troops can simply sign up for and use will be more useful to more people than forcing people to setup their own server for something like this. Give them the option of downloading the app and setting up their own if they want to, but don't force that process on people or this will be very lightly used. I also think that being able to offer a client with a local copy of data is a great idea. Merging can be greatly facilitated by representing the data in a format such as XML in which tree compares are easy to do and conflicts are easy to resolve. _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
