[CS-FSLUG] Introducing myself...

[Don Parris]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:28:25 -0600, James W. Thompson, II
<jwthompson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My name is James Thompson, some of you have heard of my article over
> on Libervis that is getting much more attention than I anticipated and
> my willingness to do whatever I can to aid the spread of FOSS in the
> church. Just so you have some background in case you didn't read the
> 'About Me' post on Libervis here is brief bio.:
> 
> I am 22 years old and a student at the New Orleans Baptist Theological
> Seminary. I work full-time at the seminary as their Web Administrator
> to support my wife Pam and baby daughter Marissa. I accepted Christ at
> the age of 17 back in 1999. I have a desire to share the good news
> with those I come in contact with but also to serve the church with my
> technological gifts. I run a free-lance web design, development and
> hosting outfit called thompsonsites at http://www.thompsonsites.com
> and have one active project I am working on called Atheteo which is a
> web hosting control panel written in perl.
> 
> I currently have a single dedicated server hosting some of my web
> sites which I have offered to use as a starting point for a new
> Christian FOSS news site. I already own a domain: openministry.com and
> could get slashcode running without too much hassle. What I really
> need is a group of people to act as moderators and submitters to kick
> start the community. If we can get that I can do the design and
> administrative details. Heck I can even notify the churches in the New
> Orleans area of the site and get the ball rolling in that arena where
> I am.
> 
> I'm willing to do what I can if there are other like minded folks who
> are willing to do what they can.
> 
> So I hope I can be of some service.
> 
> --
> James W. Thompson, II (New Orleans, LA)
> 

Welcome to the front lines of the Christian FOSS movement!  By way of
background, I was configuring aKgregator, and setup LXer as an RSS
feed.  One of the first articles in the feeds I got was James'.  Well,
from there, I just did my level best to draw in another believer! :)

I know you'll find this to be a great bunch of folks.  Mind you, one
can just about use this list for an RSS feed, thanks to Fred. :) 
You'll also see some political posts (which should be prefixed with a
"PD" - or something like that), so you can filter those out.  I pray
you'll benefit as well as contribute.

Don
-- 
DC Parris GNU Evangelist
http://matheteuo.org/
gnumathetes at gmail.com
Free software is like God's love - 
you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!