[CS-FSLUG] Christian FOSS News/Portal Site

[Don Parris]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:47:28 -0600, Tim Young <Tim.Young at lightsys.org> wrote:
> Yes, CODN.net is "ours" (LightSys's).  I actually take a bit of ownership in a few of
> them, but mostly because we are already working together.  I log on to a number of
> Christian web-sites and post to them as a support role.
> 
> In ICTA they are discussing a lot of complex authentication schemes and stuff.  I
> actually think that simple RSS feeds might just do the trick.  I think that the model
> of sourceforge, newsforge, fresh-meat, etc. would be an excellent starting point.
> Lots of the sourceforge project news information is "cross-posted" to the other sites
> by means of the RSS feeds.
> 
> But there are a few other things that we are trying to find a solution for.  In
> particular there is a need for us to find a way for mission organizations to post
> things like project needs, job positions, etc.  And to have those postings travel to
> a central location, or be distributed to other locations through something like RSS.
> But the missions need to feel the ownership of their data, and not have the overhead
> (or cost) of posting it to multiple sites.  (There are a number of sites for
> short-term-missions that organizations pay to post a short blurb about their mission
> on, and because of the process involved it is difficult for them to keep up).  Once
> they have this process for projects, they would like the same thing for short-term
> missions, and other such things.
> 
> I think what we are looking at is something that is a cross between newsgroups and
> rss feeds.  We still do not have all the pieces together, so we do not know how to
> describe the whole problem.
> 
> How would a church use such a site? What types of postings might they make?
> 
> How about Bible Schools?
> 
>     - Tim Young
> 
> Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 08:57 -0600, Tim Young wrote:
> > > I think it would be awesome.  One of the things that I think will need to
> > > happen is making sure it is tied to "sister sites" similar to how sourceforge,
> > > newsforge, and slashdot are all associated with each other.
> > >
> > > For the purposes of this site, I would think that CODN.net, the Freely Project,
> > > and ICTA.net are probably good ones to be somehow associated with.  (ICTA.net
> > > is working on developing methodologies for Christian websites to connect to
> > > each other a little easier.)  Any other sites that should be connected to from
> > > the beginning?
> >
> > What about your sites Tim? How could they be integrated. Aren't we
> > crossing similar lines?
> >
> > JSR/
> >
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