Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Lisa Caroline Lewis
Are there any other sites we could use which would be less biased in how they define what religions? I imagine some might be seriously offended by considering Buddhism a cult, and in general OLPC shouldn't find itself in the position of endorsing one religion over another. Choosing the immediate

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
You're right, I was actually just pointing to. Eduardo 2008/10/18 Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Eduardo H. Silva > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost >> gospels) to be included as well in this

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Eduardo H. Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost > gospels) to be included as well in this all-encompassing > religions/theologies activity: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html > . Are you putting

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost gospels) to be included as well in this all-encompassing religions/theologies activity: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html . Eduardoa 2008/10/18 Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Lisa Carol

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Lisa Caroline Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any other sites we could use which would be less biased in how > they define what religions? We don't have to use their site at all if we don't like their attitude. AFAIK the Sword software is under a Free

Re: World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The instructions for preparing new modules are at > > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/DevTools:Modules > > Let's pick some short texts and try them out. I'll start with the > Heart Sutra in Sanskrit and Chinese. N

Re: World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Edward Cherlin
The instructions for preparing new modules are at http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/index.php/DevTools:Modules Let's pick some short texts and try them out. I'll start with the Heart Sutra in Sanskrit and Chinese. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
2008/10/16 Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > E > The link http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp seems to suggest > they would be open, for at least putting it on the "Cult / Unorthodox" > module add-on section. > The irony being that this is a world-project and, buy the numbers,

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Sebastian Silva
Edward, It sounds to me like a wonderful project. I wondered myself why only the Bible was available. Morgan, them being christian does not necessarily imply they would not host other scriptures. The link http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp seems to suggest they would be open, for at

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Walter Bender
FYI, there is a Qur'an content bundle already available at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Quran -walter On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:15, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We have a Bible program in Sugar. S

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Morgan Collett
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:15, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a Bible program in Sugar. Sword allows any number of texts, > dictionaries, and commentaries in any combination of languages to be > integrated together. I know where many other scriptures in many > languages are ava

World scriptures

2008-10-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
We have a Bible program in Sugar. Sword allows any number of texts, dictionaries, and commentaries in any combination of languages to be integrated together. I know where many other scriptures in many languages are available, and would like to start a project to integrate them into Sword and make t