I'm interested in the church management software. I haven't found any web-based services as have been mentioned in past podcasts, especially the virtual desktop one. I'd love to see what is out there. Could you share some links?
I'm interested in the church management software. I haven't found any web-based services as have been mentioned in past podcasts, especially the virtual desktop one. I'd love to see what is out there. Could you share some links?
Fellowship Tech and Arena
My church doesn't use a Church Management tool, yet.
However, I believe that the two leading players in the market are Fellowship Technologies and Shelby Systems. Both have a software as a service product. Check out:
http://www.fellowshiptech.com/
http://www.arenachms.com/
I am sure that there are others out there. Does anyone have other links?
Also check out the ChMS Discussion Group over at Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group...
This is a place where church tech guys have been discussing various issues related to these and other Church Management products.
John
john-simons.com
I'm not seeing Arena's
I'm not seeing Arena's hosted service offering. What am I missing?
Check the FAQ
Look at their FAQ. Question 2 says that you can host your own, or they will host it for you. I don't know their particulars, however.
John
john-simons.com
Free / Open Source?
What is out there in the free / open source sphere in terms of software that could be used for Church Management? How far are we from being able to build something with Drupal that can take care of this?
Civicrm
This is something I don't know much about. But, you might want to check out civicrm. It can go with Joomla or Drupal.
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
I used CiviCRM for awhile
I used CiviCRM for awhile and found that it didn't play very well on my hosting environment's database. They wanted mutually exclusive features or something like that. It looked like it had potential...
Also, it seemed like it was a bit of a hassle to get setup and then configured.
However, the support community is pretty strong on it.
2.0 Out
The CiviCRM folks just released a 2.0 version. It's a major jump. Anyone tried it out?
Matt Farina
Geeks and God Co-Host
www.innovatingtomorrow.net
www.mattfarina.com
The Open Source Church
I am leading a project to develop an open source web based ChMS that hopes to be similar to F1. You ca find out more at TheOpenSourceChurch.org
We are still in development, but I hope to have a beta release in no more then 3 months.
Cool. :-) Another interest
Cool. :-)
Another interest of mine is mission agency management software. There are some guys building that from LightSys. They call their programs Centrallix and Kardia. It is a very ambitious project, but might have some interesting cross-over ideas.