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

[Gabriel Merritt]

Lorraine,

I've been following this thread regarding CRRCs need for volunteers with database expertise and thought I may be able to help you out.  I have several students who will be studying SQL next term and who will be needing professional references before they graduate.  If you could send me some details regarding the system you are trying to build, I may be able to find a student or two who could do the work in exchange for experience and a solid professional reference.  Please feel free to write me back at gmerritt at pioneerpacific.edu.

Gabriel Merritt
Program Director, Computer and Networking Technology
Eugene / Springfield Campus
gmerritt at pioneerpacific.edu
(541)684-4644

lorraine <lorraine at nextsteprecycling.org> wrote: 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"  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  wrote:
>> On 4/22/07, lorraine  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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