You could also look at Typo3 (http://www.typo3.com).  It has what you 
want, in addition to many other things that you could implement now or 
in the future.

There is also PHPGroupware and PHProjekt (sp?).

-jay

On Jun 26, 2004, at 11:07 PM, Jack Ungerleider wrote:

> On Saturday 26 June 2004 09:49 pm, Raymond Norton wrote:
>> Any ideas?
>> Raymond Norton
>> LCTN
>> admin at lctn.org
>
> A couple of things to consider.
>
> 1. Some form of content management system. You need to make it easy 
> for the
> users to get information in and out. Toward that end visit
> http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix
>
> 2. The kind of information you are storing may not be well suited to a
> standard relational database. Consider some form of document database. 
> Since
> that's what you're managing. Odd sized semi-structured data bits.
>
> Now for the quirky suggestion for a solution. It'll come as no suprise 
> to the
> regulars that the first suggestion is Plone. It'll provide the user 
> mechanism
> and calendar tool you need. Events are a standard content type and once
> published they appear on the central calendar. That parts straight 
> forward.
> For your tracking option there is an add-on called PloneCollectorNG. 
> It was
> designed initially as a bug collector application. It has been adapted 
> as a
> general help desk application and I suspect can be adapted to your 
> need as
> well.
>
> If you are more comfortable with PHP there are similar programs out 
> there for
> PHP. Most using MySQL as the backend data store.
>
> Another place to check for these kinds of things is www.hotscripts.com.
>
> Good Luck. If you decide to try Plone as an option feel free to 
> contact me
> directly and I'll help if I can.
>
> -- 
> Jack Ungerleider
> jack at jacku.com
>
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