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Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by orn »

timmorgan wrote: post #2

Hard to believe, but I've been working on this Rails app for over 7 years now! It started as a Rails 1.0 app waaayyy back when, and I've managed to bring it along through almost every major Rails version (still working on updating to Rails 4.1), which I'm pretty proud of. You can see screenshots at http://church.io . Being specifically church software, it might not find much of an audience here on HN, but still, I'm…

This is great, not many people stick with something for that long. I will recommend to a friend.

Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by timmorgan »

stonogo wrote: post #29

I remember using this years ago to build out a private social network for a fraternal organization. It works very well even for non-monastic purposes!

Awesome! It is true one could turn off and/or rip out the handful of church-focused features and it would stand as a fairly good member directory and private social network for close knit communities.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by timmorgan »

jackpirate wrote: post #20
timmorgan wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I have no clue!! I'm struggling to find good places to announce this or generally make it known. CITRT (Church IT Roundtable) is a huge community of IT folks which seem to also include some devs, but I really don't know any other good places. Most of the commercial church software do heavy adword buys and sponsor church magazines and blogs and such. I have no means to do that :(

I just posted it to /r/Christianity for you: http://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/2bp1k8/onebody... You could probably talk to the mods and get it as a permalink on the sidebar. Quite a few pastors/bishops/other church leaders hang out there.

Awesome, thanks!!!

Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by cicero »

This looks very nice. I'm the technology director for a Catholic college prep school and we have been wanting to put up an online alumni directory, but the commercial packages we've seen are too expensive for our small school. I'm thinking your software could be adapted for that purpose, so I will show it to the lady who runs our web site and see if we can use it. Thanks for sharing your work with the world!

Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by sandyarmstrong »

tptacek wrote: post #21
maga wrote: post #18

What if my church is called a mosque?

Or a temple, synagogue, cathedral, monastery, abbey, tabernacle, or center? "Church" is just the generic English word for "place of worship".

I don't think any non-Christian in the United States would agree with this.

Not that there's anything wrong with sticking to a particular audience.

Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by tcopeland »

timmorgan wrote: post #2

Hard to believe, but I've been working on this Rails app for over 7 years now! It started as a Rails 1.0 app waaayyy back when, and I've managed to bring it along through almost every major Rails version (still working on updating to Rails 4.1), which I'm pretty proud of. You can see screenshots at http://church.io . Being specifically church software, it might not find much of an audience here on HN, but still, I'm…

I recently had to do some data model changes on a Rails app which I've had running for about 6 years, some notes here:

http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/06/09/reorganizing-a-data-...

Church-related IT is an interesting challenge - not a lot of money to be spent, and what money there is usually gets directed towards tracking contributions. I was the IT guy for http://www.alexandriapres.org/ for a few years (mostly running backups and such) and we certainly had a grab bag of solutions to the problems that church.io is solving nicely.

Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by incision »

maga wrote: post #18

What if my church is called a mosque?

Fork and run sed - such is the beauty of OSS.

I just sent this a non-technical friend whose 'church is called a mosque'. I'm sure he'd be able to figure this out and I'm sure you could too.

No need to be disingenuous.

Re: Show HN: OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years

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Post by mountaineer »

cicero wrote: post #34

This looks very nice. I'm the technology director for a Catholic college prep school and we have been wanting to put up an online alumni directory, but the commercial packages we've seen are too expensive for our small school. I'm thinking your software could be adapted for that purpose, so I will show it to the lady who runs our web site and see if we can use it. Thanks for sharing your work with the world!

Check out http://www.alum.ni/ if you haven't already, built for alumni groups.
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