Besides being only for code, sourceforge isn't a model of user
friendliness that you would expect Sunday school teachers will need
in a site.
I'm a proponent of using existing content repositories where possible
(not reinventing the wheel). The downside is that sites like
commoncontent.org, like any public place, will have a wide range of
viewpoints and opinions on every topic, including some LDS-tagged
material that wouldn't be appropriate for inclusion in a Sunday
school lesson. For an example, type "Mormon" into Google Video,
YouTube, or Del.icio.us. It would be a hassle to minutely examine
every article, but some general control over content might be a good
reason to do an LDS-specific repository.
On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Christopher Phillips wrote:
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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