This is a summary of the discussion by the bishops, the representatives of the synod offices, and the representatives of congregations who met in Winnipeg June 16-18. If National Office goes down the Synods still can work Performance when working from a server replica of a database will be much faster as the server will be on the Synod's local network Replication of data with National Office happens from server to server A dialup connection to the Internet is not recommended for a server. Some congregations expressed the desire to use more than one computer. In order to facilitate this, a server must be available to all of the computers that the congregation wishes to use. Clients cannot replicate with other clients.
Clients can only replicate with a server.
If multiple clients replicate with a server, everyone's changes eventually end up on everyone's personal copy of the database. The other alternative to local replicas is that everyone works off of the same server copy of the database. Each of these Ids will have an email account and any additional accounts will require the congregation to purchase additional Notes licenses. The freedom of information act may restrict the type of data we capture and how we request that data. Someone needs to look into the implications.