AdrianLP wrote:So a few years back I wrote a PHP/MySQL site that allowed a branch president to manage his sacrament meetings. He could record who would speak, their topics, who gave prayers, business, announcements, etc. Then he could view reports of the last date members spoke, gave prayers, when hymns were sung. And of course the site has different access levels. Pianists/choristers/music leaders can see the sacrament theme, and view and/or edit the hymns, the bulletin coordinator can see enough that they can create a bulletin, etc. Naturally only branch presidencies can view past/future business, assign prayers/speakers, and the like. Nobody can see information they shoud not have. On Sundays a Printer Friendly page allows branch presidencies to print off the meeting, carry it into church with them, and they have their bulletin containing all they need right in front of them.
Over the years this tool has been adopted by my district.
I think an official tool like this would be a wonderful idea. The branch presidents in my district seem to love it.
This is a wonderful idea. Any tool to help make Sacrament Meeting better (improving the flow and consistency) would be a blessing.
For those who worry about "a website" consider using ONLY the address 127.0.0.1. The software could still be HTML/browser based and be a tool to assist those to setup particular meeting. If this was setup on the Ward/Stake/??? computer with correctly configured firewalls & network access the user interface being "web"would have no more meaning (security wise) than MLS using the windows api interface.
With a 127.0.0.1 the user still must be on the local machine to have access.