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Artist Wins £20,000 Grant To Study Women's Butts 202

Sue Williams has been awarded a £20,000 grant by the Arts Council of Wales, to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks." Sue plans to examine racial attitudes towards bottoms in Europe and Africa and create plaster casts of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture. And here I've been studying the issue all these years for free like a sucker!

Comment Take at look at iMIS (Score 1) 186

A couple of non-profits I do some IT support for uses iMIS (try www.advsol.com). One has about 20 users and 1500 members, the other has 50 users, several thousand members, but there are a bunch of other organisations which scale much higher. It's not cheap, but we've found it to be very effective, and relatively easy to maintain. It's got a pretty decent user base, so there are a bunch of 3rd party addons. It works well as a backend to a public website, so you can have your members updating their data, booking events, etc over the web. It's all pretty standard .NET/SQL stuff, so it's pretty easy to implement and come up with a DR strategy too. The product has been relatively bug free, and even the user interface is pretty good. The biggest issue is documentation. Although the generic end-user documentation for each module is quite good, you'll need to incorporate some budget for implementation-specific end user documentation. We also found that our implementers provided completely inadequate technical doco - you couldn't possibly rebuild the system going by the documentation, which makes disaster Recovery an issue. Expect to have to hassle your provider for usable doco.

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