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Booking system for gliders
Hej,
My club is looking for a free, or very low cost, booking system. Does anyone have any suggestions ? Up until now we used a free service that suddenly without warning turned non-free :-(. Puts us in a bit of an awkward position. We are about 200 users with roughly 15 aircrafts, but the number of bookings per year is limited to a few tenths. Therefore we feel it is not worth the big bucks the former free-of-charge system now wants to charge. We want something with an easy web-interface so that everyone can use it, including old farts ;-). Yet it should be advanced enough to allow the sort of things you need to do in a glider club w.r.t. a/c booking. Like blocking a/c for service, allowing reservation of instructors, marking a/c as grounded due to problems etc. Suggestions ? /Anders Pettersson PS. Mail address is bogus to prevent spam, reply in this group please. DS. |
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AndersP wrote:
Hej, My club is looking for a free, or very low cost, booking system. Does anyone have any suggestions ? Up until now we used a free service that suddenly without warning turned non-free :-(. Puts us in a bit of an awkward position. We are about 200 users with roughly 15 aircrafts, but the number of bookings per year is limited to a few tenths. Therefore we feel it is not worth the big bucks the former free-of-charge system now wants to charge. We want something with an easy web-interface so that everyone can use it, including old farts ;-). Yet it should be advanced enough to allow the sort of things you need to do in a glider club w.r.t. a/c booking. Like blocking a/c for service, allowing reservation of instructors, marking a/c as grounded due to problems etc. Suggestions ? We use Google Calendars. Create an Google account then distribute the username and pwd to everyone to share (Google doesn't seem to mind lots of people being signed in at one from different places!) Then people can create bookings as "events", e.g our MG is offline at the moment so that's one event spanning a couple of weeks, a few people are booked in for flying next week so have added their name as an "event" on days next week etc. Simple but works! Dan |
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My club is looking for a free, or very low cost, booking system.
We want something with an easy web-interface so that everyone can use it, including old farts ;-). Suggestions ? What you're looking for is very simple from a programming point-of-view. This is the sort of thing you could take to a computer science student at the local university and ask him to implement it for a few grains of rice. That might be more than you're willing to offer though so there are several projects I have been able to find online: http://www.shezhu.org/ http://jroger.nuxit.net/openbookings/ http://bumblebeeman.sourceforge.net/ http://rapla.sourceforge.net/ |
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Booking system for gliders
Michael Henry wrote:
My club is looking for a free, or very low cost, booking system. We want something with an easy web-interface so that everyone can use it, including old farts ;-). Suggestions ? What you're looking for is very simple from a programming point-of-view. This is the sort of thing you could take to a computer science student at the local university and ask him to implement it for a few grains of rice. That might be more than you're willing to offer though so there :-) are several projects I have been able to find online: http://www.shezhu.org/ http://jroger.nuxit.net/openbookings/ http://bumblebeeman.sourceforge.net/ http://rapla.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, I'll look through the projects. I was scanning sourceforge before e-mailing here. But there were so many and most targeted hotel bookings and such. After looking through the options I'm beginning to realize that Apache, PHP and MySQL are key ingredients for most systems. I gotta check what the clubs ISP can offer. Cheers, Anders |
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My club set up a group on Yahoo. It comes with a calendar that
everyone signed up to the group can use. It's not sophisticated but it allows you to schedule any time block you want. There are also added features and best of all it's Free...... Doug |
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I've written something in perl CGI that might work for you. The
database is just a plain text file. Here are a couple of screen shots: http://serkowski.com/images/BFSScalendarMonth.JPG http://serkowski.com/images/BFSScalendarDay.JPG -Tom |
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Booking system for gliders
On Mar 15, 3:12*pm, AndersP wrote:
Hej, My club is looking for a free, or very low cost, booking system. Does anyone have any suggestions ? Up until now we used a free service that suddenly without warning turned non-free :-(. Puts us in a bit of an awkward position. We are about 200 users with roughly 15 aircrafts, but the number of bookings per year is limited to a few tenths. Therefore we feel it is not worth the big bucks the former free-of-charge system now wants to charge. We want something with an easy web-interface so that everyone can use it, including old farts ;-). Yet it should be advanced enough to allow the sort of things you need to do in a glider club w.r.t. a/c booking. Like blocking a/c for service, allowing reservation of instructors, marking a/c as grounded due to problems etc. Suggestions ? /Anders Pettersson PS. Mail address is bogus to prevent spam, reply in this group please. DS. Anders; I have had good results for two years with this very simple, free site: Pilotschedule.com Works for tow pilots, instructors, and rentals aerodyne |
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We use Schedule Master. Works very well for us. www.schedulemaster.com Also see https://www.aircraftclubs.com . I use it for the Cessna182 that I have a share in. Reasonably priced and effective. They also have phone access if you happen to be away from a computer. Tony V. |
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Anders; I have had good results for two years with this very simple, free site: Pilotschedule.com Works for tow pilots, instructors, and rentals aerodyne Now we're talking! This is something in the right direction :-). /AndersP |
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