Following up on yesterday’s post in which I started the conversation off of just the categories of software that we use in the church world. Now to fill those categories in with actual products of what’s being used and also what’s available but not being currently implemented.
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As most ideas start with me lately, we we’re talking in the IRC chatroom the other day about open source and free software and such. I threw out the question I wonder if there are any church’s that are running completely open source? I can’t imagine wanting to do this, trying to do this, or this being even worthwhile. So I’m posting this not as a should you or shouldn’t you have an open source church but could you. So the idea is to compile a list of the good, bad, and ugly of different software to fill the software shoes of your church. I have a feeling this may not be a possibility to be completely open source as if you go to Linux as your OS I think you’ll eliminate alot of the the other opensource software that you could use as they are based on Windows or Mac. This will be an interactive series as it will take everyone’s input to make this a worthwhile list. First we’ll need to compile the list of areas where software is needed, program types so to say. I’ll start this off below but please add other program types that software is needed:
So what other areas are needed?
Many of you already know this but for some strange reason if you read my blog and none of the other Church Tech blogs here’s your head’s up. First, add some more RSS feeds of all the great Church Tech bloggers, you’ll learn much more than you will here. Next, that’s right it’s 12:03 am, May 29th, 2008 and Biggest Loser #2 has officially begun. This time it’s different and all you church techies are encouraged to join in. That means any church IT, Web, AV, Tech/Production Arts staff (full or part-time role) … If you fill these roles as a volunteer you’re eligible too. Biggest Loser #1 had a total weight loss of 356 pounds and this time I plan on doing much better. And even worse than that I’ve gained back much of the weight I loss from the first one. So there you have it, throw in your $25 bucks and 13 weeks from now we’ll all celebrate how much better we’re feeling.
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