[seul-edu] [Fwd: AFS Software]

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Ewing Caldwell wrote:

> Doug:
>         Sorry about this breach of protocol - I've signed up to
>         the SEUL announcements list, but none of the others, and
>         I only keep a sporadic eye on what you people are doing
>         (which is a fine and remarkable job :-). Therefore I
>         haven't a clue (yet) how to get info to various people.
>         This email is in hope you could do a quick cut'n copy ...
>
>         I read the #47 Linux in Education Report and saw the
>         headline request:
>
>      "Guillaume Lederrey asked if anyone knew of software for AFS
>       (American Field Service = one of the biggest
>       exchange student organisations) for Switzerland. He said,
>      "This program should be able to keep track of the different
>       students, their biological families, their host families,
>       take care of the volunteers. It must be able to do all kinds of
>       mailing, lists, ... and so on ...""
>
>       Hmm, I thought, thought I, sounds like a job for Sympa
>       (www.sympa.org) - a very powerful mailing list manager
>       with a backing MySQL database and a www (needs Apache)
>       management interface. All that's needed after installing
>       all that (sympa, additional perl modules, MySQL and Apache)
>       is to design and make the required tracking data base ...
>
>       Hope this helps ... and that you can pass it on for me.
>       Thanks
>
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