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ChurchProgrammer Member Posts: 19 From: IL Registered: 05-07-2001 |
Is there anyone interested in working on an open source project for a Church Management System? |
Revelator Member Posts: 226 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: 03-22-2001 |
Hiya. By church management system, are you talking about something that a minister in the church uses to keep track of church members and church finances? Revelator! ------------------ |
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FrosGate Member Posts: 22 From: Grawn, MI, USA Registered: 05-08-2001 |
I might be interested in helping, depends on what your looking for. I've had alot of experience with massive data manipulation in old school Q-Basic, so maybe I can help. Also depends on what language your looking at doing it in. Also depends on exactly what you want to do. Tell you what, regardless, if you got any questions, feel free to throw them my way. |
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ChurchProgrammer Member Posts: 19 From: IL Registered: 05-07-2001 |
Sorry I didn't reply soon. I hadn't notice my topic was still here after the outage. >minister in the church uses to keep track of church members and church finances?< Exactly. >depends on what your looking for< I have a little bit of information posted on my tiny website http://churchprogrammer.net, feel free to go check it out. Long story... short... I use to work of a couple companies that created Church Management Systems. Since that time I've never met a church that was actually happy with their CMS program. Or the price of the CMS. I'm hoping, over time, to create one a minister or secretaries could download and use for free. A church that actually has volonteer techincal people could download the source code and modify it to fit their exact needs. I'm trying to start with a very small program for Membership and Contributions with only very basic functionality, then slowly expand the system. Until I get further in the project I am open to the programming language. By default, I started in Visual Basic 6.0. However, I would consider Delphi. I chose VB because it was the cheapest over all cost. Delphi would be an option; however, with the ADO Express component it cost about $200 more. However, the advantage is if their was someone else on this site that wanted to use Kylix to create a Linux version, we could share source code... anyway... I don't know Linux and to keep the cost down for any tech person at a church, VB probably the cheapest... So, basically, I am looking for fellow programmer to help code... people willing to give opinions as we complete sections... design help... testers... report writers... proof readers... help file writers... etc... Currently, there is one programmer, one proof reader, and one tester... Just 3 of us... Anyway, what does everyone think? Anyone interested? |
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FrosGate Member Posts: 22 From: Grawn, MI, USA Registered: 05-08-2001 |
Church, this is probably one of the best ideas I've heard in a long time. If your doing it non-profit style, I'm all about it. Especially if your aiming to make it available to anyone who needs it. I'd be very happy to help you in your endeavor, though we need to talk a little bit more personally about how I could help. Like taking time to try to contact churches and offer them the software. I know alot of local churches around here would help me in that pursuit. We would tell them where they could download the software from (maybe CCN would host it?), or for the cost of shipping and the media (like $5?) mail them a copy of it. We could ask them to help promote CCN in their church in return maybe; maybe a flyer or even just a mention of the site, I dunno. We might also ask for a contribution to CCN if they wanted to, but that might be asking a little to much. Either way, we'll work something out. ------------------ |
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ChurchProgrammer Member Posts: 19 From: IL Registered: 05-07-2001 |
Glad you like the idea!  I'm convinced that there will be tons of churches interested.I don't want to hog resources on this site talking detail so feel free to contact me at: scott@churchprogrammer.net |
