My take on the wiki and mailing list responses is not that they are difficult to do, but that many of us would see an officially-sanctioned sourceforge-like area as a stamp of approval on what might otherwise be construed as an ark-steadying activity. Indeed, I know of no other forum than the LDS-OSS list where the propriety of online collaboration on church-related projects is endlessly debated as it is here. I worry that many potentially beneficial ideas and faithful efforts are floundering because there is too much concern over whether some initiative or other will meet with the approval of Church leadership. Having a friendly open forum for collaboration that is sponsored by the Church would do a great deal to ease misgivings about dedicating one's time to a church-related open source project. In summary, I think it may not necessarily be that people are worried about the difficulty of setting up a wiki or a mailing list, but whether or not such a list would be accepted as supportive of the church's mission or antagonistic to it.
Carl On 7/3/06, pat eyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
APIs make sense to sit up at the top, but Wikis and to a lesser degree newsletters and source code repositories are easy to set up and host, but a conference is something that would be hard to put together, advertise, and pull of without some kind of sponsorship.
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