Re: [Ldsoss] Cool Family History technology coming soon

2005-10-22 Thread Richard Pyne
On 13 Oct 2005 at 18:26, Mac Newbold wrote: > Today at 7:57pm, Dave Wagner said: > > > Let me push my luck and suggest that SOAP be presented as the > > primary means of exposing the churches content. XMLRPC and REST > > are just annoying IMHO (REST especially). > > As long as we're presenting s

RE: [Ldsoss] Stake/Ward Web Site Utilities

2006-02-07 Thread Richard Pyne
On 7 Feb 2006 at 14:24, Pete Whiting wrote: > Regarding the vcal format, I need to review the spec to make sure > I understand how to deal with events that do not have an > associated time (only a date). If you can post a sample of what > the vcal vevent should look like it may save some work. Th

Re: [Ldsoss] Leadership Directory

2006-02-08 Thread Richard Pyne
Add to that preferred names and email addresses. People simply will not take the time to keep them current. --Richard On 8 Feb 2006 at 8:20, Aaron Skonnard wrote: > I would love to see this feature. Is the issue that calling data > isn't transferred to Salt Lake along with the membership record

Re: [Ldsoss] e-mail and second phone numbers

2006-02-08 Thread Richard Pyne
AMEN This is a BIG problem. At least once a month over about the last two years of my time as ward clerk I have had a family come and tell me that they were disconnecting their home phone and each member of the family was getting a cell phone. This is especially a problem when a family has

Re: [Ldsoss] vcal export

2006-02-10 Thread Richard Pyne
My findings so far with using the vCal export for use with a PalmOS device: 1. Only the very newest Palm devices support categories for calendar items. 2. "Churchwide Event" is one character too long for those that do support categories. 3. If the categories do not already exist in the Palm D

Re: [Ldsoss] vcal export

2006-02-10 Thread Richard Pyne
On 10 Feb 2006 at 11:05, Peter Whiting wrote: > I hate to modify the output to fit a particular application's > needs, but perhaps palmos is large enough to justify. I agree with both sentiments. > Suggestions? Perhaps instructions telling people to first create > the three categories prior to i

Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

2006-06-07 Thread Richard Pyne
Web based is definitely the way to go. I have been mulling over doing something like this for some time. I'd be willing to help as time permits. --Richard On 6 Jun 2006 at 8:42, Tom Welch wrote: > > Slide wrote: > > What would be great is if you > > could also have a plug-in type system for w

RE: [Ldsoss] New Scriptures Beta Test Site

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Pyne
On 13 Jun 2006 at 7:33, Steven H. McCown wrote: > When I go to the Distribution Center, I can buy a CD for $5, but > the license agreement says that we can only install it on 1 > computer. For $5, the Church is doing little more than paying > for manufacturing and infrastructure for the CD. Ther

RE: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

2006-06-14 Thread Richard Pyne
On 14 Jun 2006 at 8:04, Steven H. McCown wrote: > Justin Findlay asked "Why should any of this be bigger than troop > level?" Because some areas run their scouting program on a wider scale. Our stake averages only about three youth per age group per ward. While each ward registers its own units

Re: [Ldsoss] Linux and Windows--How wide the divide

2006-06-19 Thread Richard Pyne
On 18 Jun 2006 at 23:41, Justin R Findlay wrote: > Even if Windows is ultimately a superior platform (whatever that > means) it's going to be a very hard sell to me. Because of > Microsoft's corporate behavior regarding the software they sell > I'm loth to adopt the technologies they create, but

RE: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

2006-07-08 Thread Richard Pyne
On 8 Jul 2006 at 8:08, Steven H. McCown wrote: > Since the requirement/goal/whatever was that the software be > accessible to all church users and non-church users, shouldn't > the platform and tools choice reflect *their preferences*??? > Shouldn't we go where the users are? Where they are likel

Re: [Ldsoss] Stake Conference Broadcast - Technology Success Story

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Pyne
Yes, please share the setup with us. We have had the need several times but have never quite succeeded at getting it all working. --Richard On 26 Sep 2006 at 21:49, Mac Newbold wrote: > Today at 8:13pm, Tony Fenleish said: > > > We just used the internet to broadcast our stake conference > >

Re: [Ldsoss] KLDS Ham Radio Emergency Net

2006-10-04 Thread Richard Pyne
Where do you live? I can search for other hams in your area. --Richard NZ7K On 4 Oct 2006 at 21:29, Timothy-Allen Albertson wrote: > tnx it was for myselfthe Stake > wants Ham Radio Operatorsand > as a new member it looks like im > the only one in the Stake who is a > Ham > > > On 1

Re: [Ldsoss] Recommendations for family history site tools

2006-10-29 Thread Richard Pyne
I have tried dozens of different things over the last 30 years and even written a few myself, and by far, the best I have found is TNG. http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php It uses a real database so it is very responsive and has almost every bit of functionality you could ever want for a