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[Ritchie, Josiah S.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christiansource-bounces at ofb.biz [mailto:Christiansource-
> bounces at ofb.biz] On Behalf Of Joey Kelly
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 11:53 AM
> To: A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [CS-FSLUG] Your Mission Dream
> 
> 
> > There is also a several missionary agency programs you can find out
> > about at LightSys that are being developed under the OpenSource
model.
> > Some are highly complicated and probably in need of people with
> > commitment and significant coding skill to put years of their
volunteer
> > coding time into making these programs usable. I know of agency's
who
> > have invested multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars into
software to
> > do what they need to do, in other words, your time on this project
could
> > save a lot more money than you could potentially ever give.
> >
> 
> Don't forget all the existing open-source applications out there on
> freshmeat
> and sourceforge, etc.. I understand that the corporate world thinks
that
> if
> something is free it is worth using, but non-profit (which is what
> ministry
> is) organizations can benefit greatly by not having to shell out
thousands
> of
> dollars for software.

Certainly, those are good programs and worth using, but many don't
address the unique needs of mission agencies and as a result are clumsy
or don't work at all in this area.

JSR/