What is TheOpenSourceChurch.org- Part 3
As promised Here is what we have in the works for you here at The Open Source Church:
- THE OPEN CHURCH MANAGER: This is going to be our flagship offering. It is being developed as a web application for all aspects of Church Management. Some of the features will be:
- Membership Database: complete with contribution tracking, mapping, and standard database features.
- Check-In System: This is a system that can be used to check in your kids church. It will feature the ability to notify parents via SMS and bar coded label/badges for the kids.
- Group Tracking/Attendance: Need a solution to track attendances? This is it. Track your small group attendance, your Worship service attendance, or any other thing you want to track.
- Email Marketer: Performs the same functions as a lot of the other cost based Email Marketers out there.
Any other features that I did not mention that you might like to see? Let us know and we will take a look at it.
- Church Website Builder: I am not about to try and reinvent the wheel so this is just going to be a pre-packaged Drupal install. Why Drupal? Because in my opinion Drupal is the Best CMS on the market.
- We can also custom code solutions for your church as the need arises. Who knows we may already have a solution available to help you. Just ask us, it can’t hurt.
That is a look at what we have coming up. Our current Time schedule to the beta release of The Open Church Manager, is about three months. If you are interested in signing up for a beta account when we go live, or if you are interested in helping develop the project please visit our contact page.
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March 7th, 2008 at 7:32 am
I stumbled on your site and just wanted to say “Right on!” I had almost the exact same idea not too long ago but have been too busy to work on it at all (I started a discussion at another site I visit, here: http://www.opendesigns.org/forum/discussion/1283/). I’m not much of a programmer, but if you need other help with design or ideas or marketing or anything, let me know.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
How great! My husband has been developing http://beonebody.org/ for the last 2 years. One Body is constantly growing and evolving. It was released January 2008 as open-source. I pray that other Christian programmers and designers will use their gifts for “free” to serve, communicate, and ultimately spread the gospel.
Thanks for you efforts! Keep up the great work!!
March 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Forgive me if you’ve stated this elsewhere… I’m very interested in what you are planning and have a few questions: What language and framework is your software developed using? At what point will the source code be made available, and where? What stage are you in now, i.e. planning, initial dev, ongoing, etc.
Exciting stuff. I’m subscribing to the feed right now…