Among other things a school holiday program? What other things? Would something like SchoolTool do the trick?
http://book.schooltool.org/features.html It is Python/Zope based - there were some zope developers in with Egressive a long time ago. If it's classes are flexible enough, it might be all you need. There are other school management tools available - school tool looked to be the most promising about five years ago ... BTW - reading my mail backwards :-) On 4 November 2012 15:19, Roy Britten <roy.brit...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
