On Monday 06 December 2004 23:03, Jonathon Blake wrote:
DC wrote:
discuss FOSS advocacy among the religious and non-profit community. ... OpenOffice.org being one such solution.
I suspect that being able to import/export OSIS formatted text would significantly improve the acceptance of OOo in the religious, or at least xian community.
Well, knowing that the Society for Biblical Literature is involved with the OASIS standard gives OOo a big jump for me. Should I understand OSIS and OASIS to be similar (or the same)? If this is the case, then many of the Sword Project's modules could be easily used with OOo - THAT would be really cool.
My booklet, "Penguin in the Pew" includes a discussion of
That was interesting reading.
I hope that means you got something out of it. It's done wonders for connecting me with the greater FOSS community. I've met a great many wonderful folks since then. I've sharpened my GNU/Linux skills further, discovered applications for the religious (Christian) market, and ran into The Freely Project. It's also helped quite a few people in the process.
I seriously need to update it, especially since I now know more about the applications available for the religious community. It might be good for me to make sure I'm up to speed on OOo 2.0, and release my revision shortly after the 2.0 release.
Don
You might also write about "Church Website in a Box", http://www.shef.ca/ which is a ready-to-use website for local churches, based on open source modules. The author says about his project:
Church Website in a Box' [CWIAB] is a MySQL/PHP based content management system designed to be easily deployed and used by all kind of churches. The website makes it easy to maintain a website. Content is uploaded, created, and managed using only a web-browser. Anyone can now have a dynamic professional, up to date website containing powerful features like a current events calendar, church publications, description of ministries, and previous week's messages and bulletins.
Frank Thomas
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