Internet Mission Office System Predecessor
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:07 am
Hello-
I was wondering how the new iMOS system relates to the similar system that has been in use in the
Alaska Anchorage Mission since 2004? I authored the AAM's Online Mission Office Database system
while I was an elder there at the request of my mission president and was later asked to make a
presentation regarding the system to Elder Quentin Cook. Subsequently, the mission department asked
many questions and approved it for use in the AAM as an Intranet only application (all Internet
connectivity was disabled) to comply with the Church's then policies, in which capacity it has been in
use since. Over the years, I heard from different sources inside the mission department that a similar
system was being developed and was curious if my project contributed to any of the ideas further
developed in your version?
I have attached the presentation that was sent to Elder Cook. This system is completely web-based and
authored in Perl and uses Apache and MySQL. It can be hosted on Windows or Linux. The GUI was
designed to mimic MLS but via a web-browser. It has a well developed multi-user framework and uses
a report markup language that i designed for the task that is easily extensible and could be adapted to
use for any kind of database. A later version of this same core system was adapted for genealogy and
released as PedigreeSoft.com in 2005. I am happy to make the source code available if anyone is
interested.
(I was unable to get the file attachment widget to work properly, so the attachment is here:
http://www.pedigreesoft.com/fhw/AAM_MDS_Pres.ppt)
Regards,
Matt Garner
London, United Kingdom
I was wondering how the new iMOS system relates to the similar system that has been in use in the
Alaska Anchorage Mission since 2004? I authored the AAM's Online Mission Office Database system
while I was an elder there at the request of my mission president and was later asked to make a
presentation regarding the system to Elder Quentin Cook. Subsequently, the mission department asked
many questions and approved it for use in the AAM as an Intranet only application (all Internet
connectivity was disabled) to comply with the Church's then policies, in which capacity it has been in
use since. Over the years, I heard from different sources inside the mission department that a similar
system was being developed and was curious if my project contributed to any of the ideas further
developed in your version?
I have attached the presentation that was sent to Elder Cook. This system is completely web-based and
authored in Perl and uses Apache and MySQL. It can be hosted on Windows or Linux. The GUI was
designed to mimic MLS but via a web-browser. It has a well developed multi-user framework and uses
a report markup language that i designed for the task that is easily extensible and could be adapted to
use for any kind of database. A later version of this same core system was adapted for genealogy and
released as PedigreeSoft.com in 2005. I am happy to make the source code available if anyone is
interested.
(I was unable to get the file attachment widget to work properly, so the attachment is here:
http://www.pedigreesoft.com/fhw/AAM_MDS_Pres.ppt)
Regards,
Matt Garner
London, United Kingdom