[sllug-members]: email/pim wanted

[Robert Lewis]

Clint Savage wrote:
> Robert,
>
> This sounds like something I am intrigued by overall.  My father does
> similar things each year with his baseball league. 
>
> I think LDAP would actually be a good solution for the core of this
> problem.  Could you provide more detail?  I am very interested in
> providing such a solution with a FOSS type license so I can give
> people like my dad tools that can help them manage large groups of
> semi-related information.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Clint
>
> On 2/3/07, *Robert Lewis* <rll at felton.felton.ca.us
> <mailto:rll at felton.felton.ca.us>> wrote:
>
>     So, here is an example.
>
>     League official his honor Mr. Smith
>     wants to set up a mailing list for his baseball league.
>
>     Picture a hierarchical tree, with "ALL" at the root.
>     "ALL" is an email list that contains everybody's name, email,
>     phone#, etc.
>     A subset of "ALL" is "LEAGUE", which contains players, coaches,
>     parents,
>     hot-dog vendors, stadium managers, etc.  That is, everybody
>     connected with
>     the league, but not Mr. Smith's other contacts (like his friends, his
>     family, etc)
>
>     So, under "LEAGUE" are folders for each team. and for
>     food-vendors, umpires,
>     coaches, each stadium.   AND, get this, any one person can appear in
>     any, or all
>     lists.
>
>     If a person is added to a particular team, his info should
>     *automatically* be added to
>     all of the nodes above him. In this example adding to "team" should
>     automatically
>     add to "LEAGUE" and to "ALL".
>
>     info cards should be able to be graphically drag-n-dropped to copy
>     or move
>     between nodes.
>
>     Individuals need to be identified across several fields, not just
>     email address or phone number because several people,
>     like husband and wife, might share the same email and phone number.
>     Thunderbird fails this.
>
>     Integrated with email for sending to everybody in a list.
>     If two lists are emailed to, no dups should be sent.
>
>     And on it goes.
>     Thunderbird cannot do this.
>     Anybody who is a "coordinator" in any organization that has
>     sub-groups
>     needs this functionality.
>
>
Clint,

I am not sure what further detail I could give you.
If you have some questions that aren't covered in
the dialogue above then perhaps I could say more.
Thanks for responding. 

Cheers,
Bob