UPDATE: Uh, wow I didn't read your origional post, I thought you were talking about a WiFi based, multi-team, integrated scouting system... where did I get that? I think it's a good idea regardless...
I'm game for contributing to this project, and I think Perl would be ideally suited. It's
the language for CGI applications (and that would be the easiest way to make this work across OS's) and it has excellent modules (perl term for libraries) for XML and practically every DB system out there.
The best way to run this would be to have people going to a regional sign up ahead of time for an account. Account registration could be done on the spot too. You could have the program automatically assign each scout a block of teams to cover, and when they have all been covered at least once, scouts can roam about as they choose.
I'm getting giddy just thinking about how incredibly cool this would be.
You could have a dedicated rotation of scouts in the stands recording scores, and they could be visible in real time! (Which reminds me, the Circuit Runners did something similar to this, ableit without wifi, and the FIRST brass came down on them hard for not marking their info as "unofficial") Each scout could record commentary on each team's performance ("Arm too weak!", "Excellent defense!", "Brilliant Automode!") subjectively. You could even have a quantitative means for recording match events. So you could record automode attempts/successes and such.
The big brother effect of this would be ridiculous. Your robots every success and failure would be recorded. Muhahahaha!
