Instead of me writing an article, I thought it might be time to ask those who read this blog about their church's open source usage. So, in no particular order, here are some questions:

• Does your church use open source software?
• Does it use OSS on Windows, or a full OSS stack (e.g. Linux/*BSD)?
• What open source applications does your church use?
• Does your pastor know he's using OSS?
• If you use OSS other than the usual suspects (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc), then what do you use it for?

At a guess, I'll say that most churches are probably in the "we use Firefox on Windows" category.

With more and more churches these days having an online presence, and with recent moves toward digitizing everything, a lot of churches are recording their sermons and putting the sermons on their web sites.

For churches that have not yet climbed onto this new bandwagon, it can seem a little daunting to start. They may wonder what new sound equipment they need to buy, as well as what special computers with special sound cards and expensive software are necessary to record their sermons.