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

[lorraine]

Hello again Mr. Ben,
We have talked with LCC-no bites for the database there yet, but still
pursuing. No luck at U of O yet, either. But, I don't give up, so I continue
to pursue my alma mater.
lorraine


On 4/22/07 11:44 PM, "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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