RFC: phone home

[Willem Ferguson]

This brings up a closely related issue that, maybe one should consider 
taking part in DAN's PDE project. Or more accurately, allowing the diver 
to take part in the PDE project. This involves sending most of the dive 
information, with a medical data sheet completed 48h after a dive, to 
DAN. This means sharing quite a bit of one's dive information, some of 
which many divers would consider a private. As far as I can see this 
would require another tab (in the Dive Info Panel  and to the left of 
the Stats tab) in which the diver could fill in the medical sheet 48h 
after the dive, as well as a button that would invoke an email client 
with key fields pre-completed, ready to be e-mailed to DAN to try and 
minimise the extra energy and time of sending this information after 
each trip. The  Preferences panel would habe a check box where the dive 
indicates participation in the DAN PDE project (running at around 200000 
dives currently).

I suppose what I am really trying to say is that, for those dive manager 
programs that participate in the DAN project, quite a bit of private 
information is already shared. So the precedent is there.

As far as Subsurface is concerned, everything depends on how it is sold 
to the user.
Kind regards,
willmf