[Eug-lug] Anyone wanna help us with a database?

[Ben Barrett]

Larry & Mr. O -
I think I have a sense of what Lorraine seeks, as I've been trying to
help a couple other friends find similar solutions, which have to do
with non-profit orgs and fund-raising.  Oddly enough, my own Mom works
on these types of systems back at PSU (Penn State, not P-town) for
their public broadcasting's donor/donation tracking & membership
management.
The solution space does indeed include financials, however it appears
much more like a CRM solution (customer relationship management) than
SQL-ledger.  The schema is not really horrible, that I've scoped out
myself, but the devil is in the details of course, development &
support for a custom application is generally not cheap, and rarely
well-done for free.
For now, I'll just say that I'm *really* glad this thread didn't die!

thanks y'all,

ben

PS - I love working with databases, so long as I get to have my way
with them....
PPS - Another idea is to talk to UO or LCC CompSci faculty, as well as
college internhip staff, and try to arrange something that would
generate interest AND results... I get the sense that Lorraine &
NextStep need a solution to start working with NOW, though.  But this
idea would be great for EUGLUG or someone/thing else to take action
on, for the community.  SAO?



On 4/22/07, larry price <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, lorraine <lorraine at nextsteprecycling.org> wrote:
> > Hi Silver,
> > What would you suggest? Not emotionally tied, just happens we all use Macs!
> > We have a Mac house here. All ideas welcome. So far, all the open source
> > folks say use ebase. Do you know of some other way we could go?
> > thanks
> > lorraine
> >
>
> What are you trying to accomplish with this database?
>
> Is it supposed to be the repository and record for everything the
> organisation does and all the data the organisation generates, or is
> it somewhat more focused than that?
>
> For a general purpose database that you are going to use for
> accounting and recording large amounts of custom data, I would suggest
> PostgreSQL which has a fairly large number of programming interfaces
> available and is relatively well known.  And there are several people
> on this list who use it professionally.
>
> see http://postgresql.org
>
> It will run on OS X or Linux.
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