On Thursday 27 October 2005 08:39, Dan Lawyer wrote: > I'm curious in the groups feedback on a couple of questions. > > 1) Should the Church host/sponsor OSS projects for Church related > initiatives? Something like forge.lds.org. > Certainly. Projects of general interest may be better suited to be sponsored on sourceforge. Projects specific to the Church such as MLS related apps (Palm organizers, scheduling/activity planners, MLS plugins etc could be on a Church hosting site (perhaps projects requiring copyright assignments to the Church)).
> 2) If the Church were to host such a site, what is the basic feature set > required to make it successful? > Sourceforge would be a good starting point. Why re-invent the wheel..... > 3) What are the most interesting OSS projects the Church might sponsor or > facilitate? PAF for Linux/MAC, APIs to the new family history system and > related add-ons, etc. > web PAF, a dynamic filtering/whitelist/blacklist system for squid, educational games based on the Book of History, Duty of God & Young Women in Excellence tracker, a library resource system (check in/out), a building scheduler, MLS to Palm & Palm to leadership appointment scheduling, a lesson planner/builder (tied into the library), Ward budgeting, an Attendance tracker, Staffing Assistance (an expanded calling system plugin for MLS), emergency prep planning, Home storage with a menu planner to setup correct rotation of the home storage items and build a purchasing schedule, a set of plugins for MLS to make welfare admin easier for the Bishop, a cub/scout/varsity/venture tracking system, a private collaboration system for Bishops and Stake Leaders, a meeting planning assistant (Sacrament Meeting planner), and the list goes on and on. Good luck oscar -Dan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- This message may contain confidential information, and is > intended only for the use of the individual(s) to whom it > is addressed. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
