Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Software Programs/Databases

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

At 04:50 PM 2/10/2014, Sean wrote:
> <snip> I wrote a web based accounting system that is easy to use and 
> exactly tailored to our community finances. This also allows us to have 
> the website automatically invoice households for common meals, guest room 
> usage, HOA, eggs from our chickens, etc.

Sean, not to pick on you, but are there other members of your community who 
really understand your system on a technical level or who could reasonably 
become familiar with it without needing to spend a whole lot of time 
learning your tools?

I have a concern over internal computer systems that someone has developed 
on site - what happens when that one person is not available to work on it? 
What's the likelihood that the system can be updated or tweaked by other 
community members? There are so many different web-based tools, at quite 
different levels of sophistication ....
      Muriel