Although I am over the open source initiative for the Church, I've also
been asked to help project manage the online scriptures program. The
current version that is on http://scriptures.lds.org has been up for
quite some time. It had some limitations in that there was no easy way
to deploy additional languages. For quite some time a new version of
the scriptures has been under development. It has been designed around
supporting multiple languages. So, although the initial look and feel
of this new version does not look much different, it is a completely
rewritten piece of code. I'm sending this email to enlist your help in
testing this new scriptures program. You can find it at
http://beta.scriptures.lds.org. Give it a try and send me feedback on
bugs or improvements.
Here is a piece of history about this software that I think is of HIGH
interest to this audience. This program was not written by the Church
but was written by a member and then donated to the Church. Even the
original version that has been on the website for some time was written
by this member. The Church has offered help with some pieces of the
work (translation, technical advice, etc) but 99% of the code was done
by this member and a few others who helped him. I've talked with the
member about the possibility of open sourcing this code and allowing
others to work on it and he is fully supportive of this approach. Using
an open source approach, we could add PDA links, alternate formatting
and an API set to integrate the online scriptures into other programs.
We are not sure this will happen yet as there may be some extenuating
circumstances we have to first solve but I thought you all would find it
interesting that an open source model can work for the Church.
Meanwhile, please help test http://beta.scriptures.lds.org and thanks
for your help!
Tom
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Tom Welch
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