You could also look at Typo3 (http://www.typo3.com). It has what you want, in addition to many other things that you could implement now or in the future. There is also PHPGroupware and PHProjekt (sp?). -jay On Jun 26, 2004, at 11:07 PM, Jack Ungerleider wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2004 09:49 pm, Raymond Norton wrote: >> Any ideas? >> Raymond Norton >> LCTN >> admin at lctn.org > > A couple of things to consider. > > 1. Some form of content management system. You need to make it easy > for the > users to get information in and out. Toward that end visit > http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix > > 2. The kind of information you are storing may not be well suited to a > standard relational database. Consider some form of document database. > Since > that's what you're managing. Odd sized semi-structured data bits. > > Now for the quirky suggestion for a solution. It'll come as no suprise > to the > regulars that the first suggestion is Plone. It'll provide the user > mechanism > and calendar tool you need. Events are a standard content type and once > published they appear on the central calendar. That parts straight > forward. > For your tracking option there is an add-on called PloneCollectorNG. > It was > designed initially as a bug collector application. It has been adapted > as a > general help desk application and I suspect can be adapted to your > need as > well. > > If you are more comfortable with PHP there are similar programs out > there for > PHP. Most using MySQL as the backend data store. > > Another place to check for these kinds of things is www.hotscripts.com. > > Good Luck. If you decide to try Plone as an option feel free to > contact me > directly and I'll help if I can. > > -- > Jack Ungerleider > jack at jacku.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list