I think that using existing repositories is a great idea whenever possible, especially for any type of content that might have values to a bigger audience. However I think there is enough LDS themed content that a completely separate directory would be helpful in order to facilitate the setup of an LDS folksonomy to organize information and make the information more accessible. I am not referring as much to coding projects as I am to things like LDS clip art, object lessons, chapters from books, audio recordings, music, etc...

Right now you can go to http://www.commoncontent.org/ and do a search for content tagged 'LDS' or go through the categorial hierarchy to maybe find a religion category with a LDS subcategory, but that would likely be the end of the line.  However, with an LDS specific directory you could tag things more specifically and have a more specific hierarchy setup- i.e. Church History --> Prophets --> Spencer W. Kimball...

The structure for this type of project could be setup fairly quickly, the time consuming part would be gathering, organizing and tagging content as it came in or preferably setting up a way that the community could self organize.

Christopher

On 7/11/06, m0smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rather than creating an LDS only repository, why not use the already
existing repositories like sourceforge?  For family history related
projects, the audience for most any project will expand beyond the
Wasatch Mountains.  You could tag a project as LDS if you think its of
interest.  I already have several projects on sourceforge, including
one called topoged.

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