You might wanna look at Quickbooks for something here and now. However, I've seriously contemplated switching to custom Apache/PHP/MySQL to integrate time keeping with payroll over the web and would love to get involved in that type of project.
> >I'm involved in a non-profit that seriously needs to computerize its > >tracking of annual memberships, donations, and embark on additional > >fundraising. For example, it should be able to know whose yearly > >memberships are expiring, and make it easy to print out reminder > >letters. An e-mail facility would be handy, too. > > > >I have little experience in this area of software, and what we need > >wouldn't be too complex, but we'd rather not reinvent the wheel. Does > >anyone have experience with this and any suggestions? A google search > >yields quite a few choices. > > > >Ideally it would be something that either runs on Linux, or is > >web-based, so that I could use it easily, though the others who need it > >would probably be using Windows. I wouldn't be 100% objectionable to > >something Windows-based that's known to work in Crossover office or > >similar, however. > > > >--Jeremy > > Jeremy, > I've done this several times and am in the process of taking a few > of these existing frameworks and merging them into a more generic > functional > "application." In each case, these have been fairly simple Linux boxes > with > Apache/PHP/MySQL which present a web-based application interface so users > don't have to buy or learn anything. > In fact, this kind of work is the focus of a new organization I am > founding called the Center for Non-Profit Computing > (nonprofit-computing.org, freshly registered). I spoke a little about it > at > last week's Red Hat meetup and a few people have already said they are > interested in helping. > I'd be glad to help you on something like this. > > Matt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
