can you guys refresh us to whats going on here?
--whats a toy library?
http://www.toylibrary.co.nz/whatisa.htm
--what is the "project"
There is no project. The only packages available for helping to manage a toy library runs on windows and costs $$$. Unfortunately, those with the motivation to write an opensource toy library package (i.e. me), are also likely to have at least one small child (3 for me), and, as a consequence, almost no free time. There are over 200 toy libraries, and the software that I know of costs about $350. That's over $70,000 on software that could go to an opensource programmer. Of course, many libraries are not computerised, but the number is definitely increasing. In a few years, nearly all will be computerised. The window of opportunity for an opensource product is closing, and there's squat I can do about it.
My wife is the president of a local toy library and has been nominated for the Toy Library Federation of New Zealand board of trustees. If anyone would like to make a suggestion in this area, then I can channel it to the top. One of the members of the board, though, is a reseller of toy library software.
Cheers, Carl.
