[TriLUG] open source god

Scott Lambdin lopaki at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 17:32:42 EST 2009


Wouldn't such a site tend to go all Gaza?  Like it would be www.Lie-Fray.com
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On 3/5/09, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
>
> I was kinda hoping for devine intervention set-and-forget software that
> never needs help just like Windows :-)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Shawn Hartsock
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:02 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] open source god
>
> I'm sure they would prefer you to view it as the difference between RHEL
> and Fedora. In the last few years they appear to have adopted RedHat's
> model.
>
> There are many selection criteria for you I'm certain. For example, who in
> the area will you be getting help from? What do they know about? What can
> they help you with?
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> > Interesting. Thanks for the feedback. "Commercial" to me implies money
> exchanging hands. Their free version appears to be beta software which I had
> really rather not use.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Shawn Hartsock
> > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:01 AM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] open source god
> >
> > It turns out http://www.liferay.com/ was a project started with nearly
> > the same charter. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liferay#History
> > the Liferay logo is even designed to bring to mind a stained glass
> > window.
> >
> > Profiles of Liferay supporters and contributors such as this one:
> > http://www.liferay.com/web/josh/profile ... show that the product's
> > focus is still very much in the non-profit sector. In fact I sought to
> > have a Liferay product customized for commercial use and ran into a
> > road block... we were a for *profit* organization and the Liferay
> > company seems to prefer working with non-profits.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> >> I want to start an internet based church to promote threaded
> >> discussions on all the different flavors of god. I've met too many
> >> folks with too many colors of skin with too many different countries
> >> of origin with too many different religions and too many different
> >> names for god that I really, really, really believe we're all talking
> >> about the same thing using different words. Promoting an
> >> understanding and open discussion is what my religion has called me to
> do.
> >>
> >> Are there any canned open source applications for starting the First
> >> Church of the Internet (or whatever the name will be that won't
> >> exclude anyone from any religion or no religion at all) that will
> >> mimic things like Facebook and MySpace?
> >>
> >> I'm thinking Wiki and keep it simple so Dreamhost one click install
> >> will start the church with no money, no tithe, no salary for preacher
> >> and no registration fee.
> >>
> >> It would be great to stream videos from small rural churches that
> >> might not have the budgets of the larger churches and give them a
> >> forum to share. I am currently working with one church now so they
> >> can post a link to their web-based Video over IP camera, and folks on
> >> the Wiki (or whatever is appropriate) may take part in their service
> >> without physically being present.
> >>
> >> Comments on open source solutions most welcome.
> >>
> >> With God as my witness I am
> >>
> >> Jim
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