A desktop application to record save, review, and optimise the use of manpower across a number of tasks and different events.

It was written to address the difficulty of a church where many people were capable of fulfilling a number of the requirement but not at the same time. It could equally be applied to other situations where the same people may be expected in a range of tasks with the risk of clashes.

###Key features

• quickly find a candidate for a task from a population given qualification, availability and other committments
• produce reports personalised to individuals and occasions
• option to (attempt to) fill every task automatically given the workers

###Details Written in Python with a pyqt UI. Some of the key classes are

• Role: the nature of a task to be performed (such as "cook" or "waiter")
• Worker: a person qualified for one or more roles and with some avaialability
• Event: a time session with a date and start time (such as a work-day, lesson or a meeting)
• Appointment: a task to do during the whole of an event, classified by its role
• Duration: a collection of events across a range of dates (such as 1st-quarter or spring-term)
• Institution: a population of people, and events sorted into durations