Hi - it's been quiet on here lately. I'm currently considering the option
of Open Sourcing the Facebook "LDS App", currently which has near 1000 users
and growing. I simply can't take this as a one-man show any more (I've got
too many other ventures I'd like to pursue) and could definitely use all the
help I can get on it. My goals for it are to be the one way of "being LDS"
on Facebook - my intentions aren't to make money on it, unless someone can
take it and do more with it than I can (while keeping it open source and
maintaining the ideals I have set for it), or if I need to recoup the costs
of hosting and maintenance of it. So I recently read about Newscloud, an
entirely open source Facebook application. It got me thinking that I ought
to be able to do the same with the LDS App.
So I thought I'd ask the group - what are your suggestions on the best way
to approach Open Sourcing a Facebook application? It sits on my servers and
only approved code gets published to the app. How can others test their
code before submitting it? Is there a way anyone can think of that would
give others a sandbox to test their submissions before committing to the LDS
app? If this works well, I'd like to expand the code further to a broader
Christian and religious base for an even larger group to contribute.
What are your thoughts? Any suggestions or ideas? I'll probably start over
the weekend by at least publishing the code on Google Code or SourceForge or
something - somewhere that I can host a central repository. I think
applications like this are an ideal use of the LDSOSS group - I encourage
others to do so as well! (and many props to Steve Dibb, maintainer and
writer of the LDS Scriptures repositories - this app uses that and it has
been a huge help!)
Jesse
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