Re: [K3d-development] List of potential "contacts"

[Daniel S. M. <dsm...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Timothy M. Shead <ts...@k-...> wrote:
> Timothy M. Shead wrote:
>>>>>> Perhaps I'm being overly simplistic, but would a mailing-list accomplish the
>>>>>> goal here?
>>>>>>
>>>>> In part yes, but I am thinking of a shared "leads" database, which can
>>>>> have different types of contacts, forums, publications etc. the
>>>>> details can't be public (due to spamers) but should be open to all
>>>>> team members so that they may contribute to it. It needs to be
>>>>> categorized and machine readable so that we we publish some news it is
>>>>> transformed and sent to the receiver in the appropriate format.
>>>>>
>>> How about, http://www.sugarforge.org/content/open-source/
>>>
>> I'll see if I can get an instance up-and-running ... looks like all the
>> marketing we could ever need - or stand ;)
>>
> I have a copy of SugarCRM going now, I think that Daniel and I may want
> to play around with it for awhile before deciding whether it's the right
> solution for our needs.  Certainly, it can maintain a list of leads, the
> question is whether it's overkill for the job ;)

I'm sure it is more feature rich than required, but I can't think of a
smaller tool that will still do what we now and in the future. Some
hand crafted code would be ideal, but a distraction.