On Saturday 23 September 2006 1:29 am, bogi wrote: > Hi, > First i don't see this thread to be off topic.
Did someone say it was OT? I missed that. > Second, I have little intrest if family tree, but can clearly see other > peoples intrest in the subject. > I will Agree with Shawn's #3 Suggestion, and would throw in a #3a: Fork an > existing project to get an initial boost. > Obviously that may or may not work. I agree 110% with the position that family-based tools don't account for many situations. That means some (all?) existing tools have an inherent flaw. > At the moment i9 have very little time to offer, but that could change in > the future. > Oh, an Shawn, can you call me tomorrow ... > Cheers > Szemir > > On September 22, 2006 22:46, William Astle wrote: > > Shawn wrote: > > > I'm favoring option #3, but do not really have a clear picture of the > > > requirements (yet). So, anyone want to hammer out the requirements for > > > a multi user, web based geneology system with me? Maybe with these > > > requirements we can better evaluate an existing system and save some > > > development time. > > > > I've been through the research path on this myself and arrived at > > "option #3" myself for similar reasons. > > > > One of the big issues I had with a lot of software is that it assumes > > that a "family" is the basic unit of everything in genealogy whereas to > > me it seems more logical that the "person" is the basic unit. The > > "family" concept doesn't seem to handle things like multiple marriages, > > unmarried couples, etc., very well. This "family is the core" concept > > also appears to be codified in GEDCOM. > > > > Anyway, the thing to be really careful about with this sort of project > > is scope creep. With Shawn's idea of what he wants to do, that is a very > > real danger. It can easily explode into a general purpose store anything > > about anything type of database. That said, I ran into exactly the same > > desire to store more complete information. > > > > That said, I'm somewhat interested in such a project myself. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
