TL;DR: looking for recommendations for Open Source software that fills a specific gap and/or someone to help implement a paid desktop database / data management project.
A Papanui-based organisation runs (among other things) school holiday programmes for kids. Currently the relevant info is kept in (you guessed it) spreadsheets. They estimate that they're spending ~$6k-$8k annually in staff time keeping their data up to date. (Every term parents fill out an info form, which someone has to enter in, etc. Ideal would be to print last term's details and only enter any changes, e.g.) They have a budget to implement a "proper" solution for tracking kids' details. They've been quoted five-figure sums for American off-the-shelf solutions which seems a bit much. I reckon this list is a good place to discuss suitable OS/Linux solutions. Go! I'll start with: can OpenOffice (or LibreOffice, or whatever) be customised up to support this sort of thing? [Please contact me _off_list_ if you feel you have the professional chops (technical ability, requirements-gathering and customer-facing skills, usability knowledge) to implement something like this.] Cheers, Roy. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
