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
Thanks. I know this software and indeed it's not really related (we need a club management software).
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"
Hmm. Maybe so. How well would it work on a Windows system?
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
Indeed. I hope to play on this experience.
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
True. But they can also open-source the ASP/VB/Access solution can't they? (Though I don't know how large is the open source community for such tools).
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.
I also envision that there are so many similar points among various clubs, not just for gliding (e.g. "an activity" could be either a flight or an August Penguine II).
I hope to convince them to open-source it whatever the technology is.
Cheers,
--Amos
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