[Nate Smith]

Something I actually had a couple years ago for the team I was working with at the time was a custom-designed time clock system, which actually logged hours, and tracked who was a "student" and who was an "advisor" in the database it used. In the event that any students were still signed in when the last advisor signed out for the day, those students would be penalized by only recieving one hour for the day. I didn't really track it on a per-meeting basis, but just time in and time out. I even went so far as to put it in a multiple-monitor system, allowing for the second display to continuously switch between the current time, and a list of everyone who was signed in at that time. Something that I was working on at the time I left that team was the option to have a form of client/server system, where in addition to the main display in the shop area, you could use any other computer in our work space to log in and out.

Unfortunately, I dont think I have the code for this laying around any more, but if anyone is interested in seeing it(in any form) making a reappearance, I would be more than happy to see what I could put together. Let me know...