[CS-FSLUG] Christian FOSS News/Portal Site

[Daniel Miller]

I check /. a couple of times a day, as well as Drudge.  The reason I
do so, is because /. has the best tech news from a large majority of
sites all pooled to one central location.  The same pretty much goes
for Drudge, but on the news side.  There are Christian news sites and
OSS sites, but no one central location that is on the web in a /.
manner.  I really think that the key to making it a success would be
to ensure that ALL things related get aggregated to the site in a /.
kind of matter.

Then I think, but what if I don't have to check /. or Drudge?  What if
there was one central local to find all pertinent related news?  Would
I use it over /?  If the news and information that I want is there,
you bet I would.  Wouldn't it be great to have the / type effect on a
site pertaining to the info that's important to us?

Granted there are some sites like this.  (Which I have only come
across from being on this list.)  But none of them do it quite as
well.  Many of the sites I probably would have never known of, if it
wasn't for the one day that I decided to put christian, linux, user,
and group into Google and found this list.

IMO I feel that the site should be more or less the hub of the wheel
rather than another spoke.

Just my 2 yen on the whole idea.

Blessings to you all,
Daniel Miller  


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:29:54 -0500, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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