On Sunday 22 February 2004 15:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My gliding club is going to write their own software, after years of being
> dependent on an ancient Magic software that no-one could update and did
> a fraction of the requirements.
Not exactly what you asked for, but thought I'll mention it anyway.
Googling for 'open source pilot logbook' brings as first hit:
GNU Pilot Logbook Pro --
http://freshmeat.net/redir/gplbp/3546/url_tgz/gplbp-0.92.tar.gz
While its not web based (it's a GTK app), you may play with it (I didn't)
to see if it's a reasonable as a demo-ware. I.e: "here is what open source
can produce through colaboration"
To help clarify your club members the upgrade "cost" of MS, you may want
to demonstrate the *true* cost of the Magic solution -- having an abandoned
software that cannot be maintained any longer. The MS upgrade cycle
mentioned by others, almost assure the same result.
I think the only viable long term solution for low a budget community is
to share the load -- e.g: start a non-ambitious OSS project and try to
interest other glider clubs (either in Israel or elsewhere -- logbooks are
logbooks after all). This way you get a living software instead of a dead
and/or costly product.
(the signature is relevant to this theme)
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