[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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