Open source Java project

[HaleDN]

...Emergency Prepardness (help people track food storage, help organize service, etc)...

With recent announcements regarding preparedness, http://www.providentliving.org/content/ ... -1,00.html , the providentliving.org site is bound to get more interest. (But the Food Storage Calculator IMHO is terribly inadeqate for long term storage, and ripe for replacement!) We could build a quick app to replace this, and provide the basis for other projects which want to leverage the ICS Java Stack. (Of course, this assumes that the Stack is available for use on servers not hosted by the Church)

[HansenBK]

Tom, thoughts?

[WelchTC]

Tom, thoughts?

Love the idea but we have some internal issues that need to be resolved before the current stack could be used. Does it require the stack?

tom

[HansenBK]

Love the idea but we have some internal issues that need to be resolved before the current stack could be used. Does it require the stack?

tom

<sigh/>

It doesn't have to...just hoping it would.

[HansenBK]

With recent announcements regarding preparedness, http://www.providentliving.org/content/ ... -1,00.html , the providentliving.org site is bound to get more interest. (But the Food Storage Calculator IMHO is terribly inadeqate for long term storage, and ripe for replacement!) We could build a quick app to replace this, and provide the basis for other projects which want to leverage the ICS Java Stack. (Of course, this assumes that the Stack is available for use on servers not hosted by the Church)

So what do you mean by the calculator? The pamphlet?

[mkmurray]

So what do you mean by the calculator? The pamphlet?

No, I think he means the calculator located just a few clicks away. Here is a direct link: http://www.providentliving.org/content/ ... -1,00.html

[HansenBK]

Sweet! So what are some of the requirements that we would like it to do?

[HaleDN]

The reason that I proposed doing a food storage calculator was to provide some "meaningful" functionality to LDS users (not just a pet store), but at the same time demonstrate how an integrated Stack app would work. If the Stack isn't available, then perhaps this isn't a good candidate.

For someone interested in where I was going with this, here a few examples:

One page, JavaScript example: http://www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html

Commercial desktop app (demo available) http://www.foodstorageplanner.com/

[nbflint]

Providentliving.org used to have a food storage more like the one at http://www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html

You'd put in the number and ages of the people in your family and and how long you wanted your storage to last (1 year, 1 month) and you'd get a customized report telling you how much you should try to save for that time period. What ever happened to that? The one on there now IS Grossly inadequate!

[HaleDN]

What ever happened to that?

I think that they are moving to simplify their recommendations regarding food storage. I expect to hear an announcement regarding this in the next few weeks (if not during Conference). But making less specific recommendations means that people are going to need more flexible tools to assist them in this process.