A friend of mine is computer savvy, but not a developer. She helps run a nonprofit organization with a bi-monthly gathering; it has an entry charge that is cheaper for members of the organization. She wants a way to keep track of attendance, memberships, renewals, and so forth, for the eventual purpose of doing some basic trend analysis.

When she said she was thinking of using Access, I cringed and reflexively barked, "ACCESS IS EVIL!" Wisely discarding my knee-jerk evangelism, she asked me for alternatives. After Googling around for a while, I didn't really find anything that seemed like it would fill the same niche for her.

The web developer in me is thinking, "She just needs a dead simple CRUD app, like rails on top of a simple sqlite scehma." But, that's probably outside the scope of her computer skills to set up. Is there actually something out there that I can suggest to her without implicitly obliging myself to weeks or months of here-and-there tech support?