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[Josiah Ritchie]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 17:53 -0500, Don Parris wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:44:16 -0500, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:00:00 -0600, James W. Thompson, II
> > <jwthompson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I was curious about something. I have been talking with people lately
> > > about a Christian FOSS news site modeled off of Slashdot. I have
> > > concluded that Slashcode is too cumbersome at this point as it would
> > > require a dedicated server or at least a VPS to host the silly thing
> > > and I don't have the resources financially to set that up. I also was
> > > wondering if such a thing was even necessary or whether producing a
> > > hub for all the other things going on might be better. Providing a
> > > single site that pulls in stuff from all the various sources to create
> > > a "network" of sites...
> > >
> > > Just putting out feelers to see what needs to be done. If a Christian
> > > FOSS news site is what is need though I could definitely make it work,
> > > but I just want to find out what is really necessary and what would
> > > just be a duplication of effort.
> > >
> > > --
> > > James W. Thompson, II (New Orleans, LA)
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > ChristianSource FSLUG mailing list
> > > Christiansource at ofb.biz
> > > http://cs.uninetsolutions.com
> > > 
> > We could talk with Bob Brown over at Open Source Ministry about that.
> > He also has hosting ability, and apparently desires to take his site
> > in that general direction.  When he posted over at Freely, he wondered
> > if there might be some duplication.  It might be best to build on what
> > he already has in place.  He has a very nice site, by the way.  For
> > those who haven't checked it out already...
> > 
> > Main -  http://www.osministry.com/
> > Forums -   http://www.osministry.com/forums/
> > 
> > 
> O.k., I just got back from Freely.  Bob is VERY interested in hosting
> the news on his site.  If it's all the same with everyone, it makes
> sense, and would draw Bob closer to the rest of the sites.  Take a
> look, see what you think.

Cool, what needs to be done to encourage the extension of OSMinistry in
this way? 

JSR/