So have you looked at gramps for open source geneology? I'm pretty sure it doesn't do the database thing that you are talking about, but it's a pretty good PAF replacement (though a little buggy it seems to me). It even has LDS ordinance stuff. I think the database idea is probably a really good one for collaboration, but cvs (or subversion now) might work really well too. Either way each family would need someone to set up a server that they could all connect to, but with cvs you _have_ to connect to the server everytime you sit down to work on your geneology, which might be nice.
Bryan On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:35, Hyrum Wright wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:38, Ross Werner wrote: > > > p.s. while I'm on the subject of CVS, this is slightly off-topic but I > > remember some BYU people working on Open Source genealogy software back in > > the day ... my [extended] family works on these big huge genealogy files > > and needs some easy way to coordinate their work. I often contemplated > > using CVS or something like it, but again I'm totally ignorant of such > > things. They used to use PAF, but I think they've switched to some new > > program because it was easier to coordinate. Has anybody done anything > > similar or have ideas of what they could use? > > CVS for genealogy? There's something I haven't heard of before. Not a > bad concept, though. > > <shameless plug> > > I've been working off an on on a genealogical management tool over the > summer. It is coming along slowly, but surely, and probably even slower > now that school has started. It is similar to PAF, but uses a > relational database model to store the data, and accesses the database > via plugins. Right now, the only one that is implemented is a embedded > database plugin (SQLite), but eventually, I will have a plugin for, say, > the MySQL client, so several people could be hitting the same database > at once. A Linux version is available, with Windows coming soon. Again > it doesn't do that much, but it has the potential to, once I get the > time. > > Aw, who and I kidding, it will probably go the way of all the other > red-headed step child open source projects out there. At least it will > have one user though -- me. > > On a related note, if anybody is interested in practicing their > CSS/PHP/HTML skills, I'm looking for somebody to maintain the web site. > > </shameless plug> > > Thanks for listening. > > Hyrum ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
