Monte Milanuk <memila...@invalid.com> writes: > I need to create a particular application for administering a sporting > event. 95% (and this may be understating the case) of the 'users' would > likely be single-machine, single user scenarios. For those exceptions > (which are important enough that I'm concerned over them) there would be > one person 'administering' the event and a small number of others > (probably <5, no more than 10) doing basic data entry - competitor > registration and later entering scores. Before (setting up event), in > between (squadding competitors based on classification, equipment, > available positions on relays, etc.) and taking care of final reports > for awards, etc. would be done only from the main program. The > end-users are likely not tech-saavy, and most likely running Windows or > maybe a Mac. Being able to do the data entry from a tablet would be > nice but by no means necessary. Installation needs to be as > stone-simple as possible - running from a pre-configured USB stick or a > browser would be ideal. Use would be over small wired or wi-fi LAN > enviroment - no exposure to Internet.
I developed SoL[1] with almost the same goal, to manage Carrom tournaments. It started many years ago as a Windows only desktop application, but evolved into a much nicer and fun-to-develop web application, based on Python on the backend (using Pyramid and SQLAlchemy, with a SQLite database) and ExtJS on the frontend. That basically means that the backend may be installed with little effort on any Python-supported OS, and the frontend runs on most modern browsers. I manage small events with a single notebook and a low cost printer, without network connection, while major events with a network connection may be managed online. You can try it out at http://sol3.arstecnica.it/, using guest/guest as username/password. Hope this helps, ciao, lele. [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SoL -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. l...@metapensiero.it | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
