PEDoober
                      (People & Events Doober)
                   http://sleeper.978.org/~kenta/        


What is PEDoober:
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PEDoober is a set of perl scripts that should allow small groups to create 
profiles and organize events.  I took the original concept from my friends 
at http://978.org.  We used the 978 scripts to organize many a gathering.  
While they were great for us I thought it would be super cool to make a 
package that anyone can untar, configure, and setup in under an hour.  I 
also "corrected" some issues I found behind the scenes (i.e. keeping data 
separate from scripts & less shell commands, more perl).



REQUIREMENTS:
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While it is very simple it requires:
 + Apache webserver.
         I've only tested this on Apache.  If you get it to work
         on anything else, please let me know.

 + Perl. 5.6 (or greater)
         What you probably have will probably work.  These programs
         have only been officially tested on 5.6
  
 + PerlMagick 5.3.x (or greater) http://imagemagick.org/www/perl.html
         If you have ImageMagick already,  PerlMagick may or may not
         already be included.  In some cases I heard it was included
         ONLY in the developers packages of ImageMagick.  

 + Ability to run CGI/Perl scripts outside /cgi-bin.  
         Either add the directories which the cgi's must run via 
         Apache's ScriptAlias directive OR, setup ExecCGI to allow
         cgi's  from anywhere.
         

LIMITATIONS:
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 - It does not scale well.
         PEDoober creates a directory for each event.  It creates
         a lot of text files to store information.  What I will do
         someday is maybe get it working with MySQL.

 - You can only have ONE EVENT PER DAY.
         Events are named by the day of the event.  So for small
         groups where everyone is doing the same thing this is fine
         but don't expect to coordinate multi events on the same day
         using these scripts.


Contact:
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If you need help with PEDoober of any kind please feel free to contact me.

   E-mail:  kenta@sleeper.978.org
            kenta@guster.net
   AOL IM:  n0cb0y (those are zero's not O's)
   IRC   :  irc.978.org  channel #978.


Installation:
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Read the INSTALL file included with this package.


Licensing: 
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This product is distributed under the GPL.  Please read through the file
COPYING for more information about our license.

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