On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:30:15AM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > Speaking of all this ward directory stuff, I started to create a website > for our single's ward. My goal was to leverage BYU's LDAP to fill out > most of the information and people would be able to update their own > information at any time (pending approval from appropriate members of > the Bishopric, etc). Elders Quorum Pres and Relief Society Pres could > create HT and VT assignments or delegate that responsibility. Ward > members would then be able to report their HT and VT and the Presidents > would be able to have that information quickly. Members would also be > able to browse the ward directory in HTML, or dynamically create a pdf > for printing at anytime and it would be updated. Other things would > include messaging, calendar and other extras. Unfortunately, my last > semester of school was crazy trying to graduate, then I did a huge > remodel on my house over the summer and now I'm getting married. I don't > know if I will finish it now :( I'm kind of bummed about it. I wasn't > sure how I would generate a pdf from raw data, I know it's possible, but > it would have been fun to figure out. >
I think something like this would be really cool, but I've avoided doing something like this for a few reasons. The Church tries to be really careful about data. I'm a little more security-minded than most people, but I still don't really trust myself. I could imagine putting a page out there, thinking it's just fine, but then having someone steal data from it. Imagining how guilty I would feel has dissuaded me from trying to do this. Additionally, the Church officially said not to have ward web sites a few years ago, and something like this would definitely have to be administrative-only if it's going to be in the letter and spirit of this policy. That said, I have put stuff on my own computer that makes it possible to do at least some of the things that you have pointed out. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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