After an unplanned and lengthy hiatus, I am back with a plan to revive Christians in OSS!

Daily Newspaper

I have created a special daily "newspaper" of Christian and open source articles, called "Christians in OSS Daily" (gosh, how original!), thanks to the service at Paper.li. These daily editions are pulled automatically from my Twitter feed every day, and are usually not edited, unless I feel that some of the stories do not belong there.

I've decided to move the blog at christianoss.wordpress.com over to christianoss.org, and am looking for volunteer bloggers. If you think you might have something to say about OSS in a Christian context, I'd be really keen to hear from you.

Please note that you don't have to blog every X days or weeks, I'm just looking for contributors who have something to say from time to time.

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Recently I was chatting with a few friends separately about Linux and using it in Churches. This got me thinking about what Churches might need, rather than about how to get Linux onto Church computers.

My friend Wesley and I were chatting about using the Dansguardian filtering software on a main firewall server at his Church's office. He initially wanted to install it on the desktop computers there, and then had the good idea to rather install it on a central server.

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I thought it only appropriate to highlight the Xiphos, formerly known as GnomeSword, in my second Project Spotlight. This is the Gnome-based frontend to the Sword Bible library.

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From time to time, we will be looking at Christian open source projects, chatting with the project leader, and trying to get an overview of what the project is about. We hope to be able to highlight useful applications for the Christian who uses open source software.

For our first Project Spotlight, we'll be looking at BibleTime:

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As a Christian and a user of software, every now and then I've come across a project or a piece of software that has one or a few Christian developers. On the occasions I find myself using a similar product, but one that doesn't have any Christians associated with it, I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't switch to that product, as a way of supporting those Christians.

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One of my pet peeves is those OpenOffice.org Impress or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that folks do in churches. I've seen too many half-hearted efforts in the 28 years I've been in church.