[Maced] Carnival Manager

[Adam Rice]

Actually I downloaded it and entered test data

It is built in FileMaker Pro and simply pulls simple data between pages.

While it might be terribly useful, I can't see, from a development  
perspective, why it is worth $200

A database is kept of the athletes, events, houses, and basic  
preferences like the name of the carnival.
Simple look ups are used to combine the data into a rather non- 
intuitive interface.

Because there are very minimal smarts included in the package, you  
have to keep jumping between sections to configure the event and you  
really need to sit down with the package for a while and learn how it  
works.

Given that a full price, retail, copy of iLife or iWork costs $99,  
Microsoft Office costs $249, and a program that let my phone control  
my computer, change iTunes, puts presentation notes on my phone screen  
and lets me change slides, and includes proximity and call sensing  
over WiFi or Bluetooth so that my music turns down when I'm on the  
phone is only $23.95, I believe the price for this is too high.

You would be far better off building this in PHP with MySQL. It  
wouldn't take very long, would be customised to the school, could be  
integrated into current services.

Then, once the proof-of-concept version was finished which would  
replace all the functionality of Sports Carnival Manager, you could  
look at configuring it to feed off the already established user list  
in the Open Directory server (obviously writing the athletes list to  
the database so that it would work even when the computer was not on  
the network as is likely during a carnival) and it would work cross  
platform without the requirement of any downloads. Could also look at  
having it automatically roll the current events on screen on the day  
so that you can easily tag the winners of events.
In carnivals where there could be some distance between the main tally  
room and some events (athletics comes to mind) you would be able to  
use an Ad-Hoc network in the field to establish satellite results  
tables that allow real time feedback on events.
My brain is almost exploding with the possibilities :)

Adam Rice
K-12 Education Manager - Brisbane & Sunshine Coast

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On 31/07/2008, at 5:58 PM, Jason Bradley wrote:

> You've obviously never used the program??
>
> On 31/07/2008, at 5:19 PM, Adam Rice wrote:
>
>> Oh my.... $195 ex GST to manage a carnival.
>>
>> That seems a little rich... particularly since I can't see what it  
>> does that you couldn't do in Excel in about 30 minutes.
>>
>> Adam Rice
>> K-12 Education Manager - Brisbane & Sunshine Coast
>>
>> T 07 3914 5344   |   F 07 3852 4068   |   M 04 3177 6211
>> A Suite 1, Unit 29, 25 James Street
>>     Fortitude Valley, Queensland,  4006
>> E arice at mac1.com.au   |   ABN 96 983 779 822
>> FC 1300 655 088   |  W  WWW.MAC1.COM.AU
>>
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>> On 31/07/2008, at 4:32 PM, Jason Bradley wrote:
>>
>>> This one Jock?
>>>
>>> http://www.typeanddesign.com.au
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> On 31/07/2008, at 3:37 PM, Jock Webb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if the company that sold Carnival Manager is  
>>>> still running. We seem to have lost our original- ****sports  
>>>> department.
>>>> Jock
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