Matt, Yes, Ransom knows what I'm doing. (I used to be CTO for the family history department.) Ransom has been working for 3 years now evangelizing open-source development inside the Church, and he's doing a great job. If the Church eventually decides to create a website like this I would be happy to work with them.
BTW, my understanding is that the open-source position that was being advertised is for the Church's ICS department, not family history. They're separate departments. Eric Denna, the Church's CIO (and therefore over ICS) likes open source and is making good progress there. It's also interesting to note that there are two open-source projects currently approved for the family history department by the bretheren: creating an open-source name and place standards database, and creating a web search engine for family history. Both of those projects were approved two years ago while I worked there (Ransom and I worked together on getting them approved), but unfortunately there were and still are no resources available within the department to work on them. Not coincidentally, these two ideas form the basis of what WeRelate.org is all about. So yes, if the Church decides to get involved in open source as Ransom envisions, I would love to join with them and Ransom knows this. I think it's just a matter of time before the Church starts working on open-source projects. I just didn't want the time in the meantime to be wasted. And I believe that it's too burdensome to the Church for its members to expect Church Headquarters to initiate and run every good idea. We need to be willing to do good works on our own, which from what I've read is what this group is all about. -dallan PS, What's your last name? Are you still in PA? You can email me personally at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you like. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of m h > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:02 PM > To: LDS Open Source Software > Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Feedback request > > Dallan- > > I just got back from doing booth duty at OSBC and ran into > Ransom Love (of Caldera/SCO fame) who is now working at the > church. My understanding is that the church is planning on > doing a website very similar to yours (and they also want to > open source it, hence the recent job posting for os evangelism...). > > Are you familiar with what the church is doing here? Are > there any overlaps/differences? As an (open source) software > developer I sense NIH going on... > > matt > > (I met you a briefly couple years ago in PA2, funny that we > cross paths again...) > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
