[PLUG] Help with Oregon Foodbank website

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Sun Jun 9 17:41:29 UTC 2002


As I mentioned in the Meeting Thursday.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Pedigo [mailto:jpedigo at oregonfoodbank.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:49 PM
> To: kens at cad2cam.com
> Subject: Help with our website
> 
> 
> Hi, Ken;
> 	
> Paul Reich asked me to introduce myself and give you an update on 
> the work we are doing on our website.  
> 
> My name is Joe Pedigo and I am the Inventory Manager at Oregon 
> Food Bank (OFB).  This includes maintaining and developing our 
> Inventory database application, Ceres, which is a  Food Bank 
> version of Navision, a financial application.  The data in Ceres 
> is what we serve up on our internal website for our Regional 
> Coordinating Agencies (RCAs), the recipients of the food we 
> distribute.  There are 20 RCAs, 2 of them are branches of OFB.
> 
> We have our main website at www.oregonfoodbank.org, which is 
> hosted by Europa at an external location.
> We also have the Waterfront Blues Festival site at 
> www.waterfrontbluesfest.com.  I am not sure if Europa hosts this 
> site as well.
> 
> And we have the "Inside OFB" website at 
> http://inside.oregonfoodbank.org (Please contact Joe directly for user
> name and password), which is on our own Windows 2000 web server 
> in this building. 
> 
> Opening day for Inside OFB was April 26th of this year.  The 
> information we provide for the RCAs is related to shipment 
> schedules, and the offering and acceptance of different types of 
> food.  This is work that we did by phone, fax and email in the past.
> 
> A volunteer from Intel who has experience with ASP has been the 
> primary developer.  We have worked to together to gather the data 
> and present it in a way that is meaningful to our audience, the 
> RCAs.  We intend to expand this site to include the submission of 
> quarterly reports, downloading files, and access to Policies and 
> Procedures.  Things like that
> 
> The website draws its data from an Access database which is 
> linked to the Navision proprietary database (Navision won't 
> support web access, until we switch to a SQL Server backend).  We 
> periodically run a routine that updates Navision and synchronizes 
> the two databases.
> 
> An audience that we have not yet addressed is that of the Local 
> Member Agencies (LMAs) of our 2 Branch RCAs.  There are 
> approximately 300 of them (250 for 1, 50 for the other).  A 
> problem we have is that not all the LMAs have the ability to go 
> online.  Some of them (perhaps just a few, now) are quite behind 
> the times and have difficulty even with faxes, although some are 
> quite capable and eager to get information online.
> 
> 
> 

Ken




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