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July 13, 2005
My next project
I am working on a new website to promote churches and other ministries using open source software.
I see a lot of high quality free open source software out there that could be used by churches and non-profit ministries to improve the services they provide.
Usually there are a few barriers that prevent implementation
1) Often there is a steep learning curve, and it takes quite a bit of time to get up to speed on the ins and outs of a particular piece of software.
2) It is dangerous to be reliant on any one individual to keep one of your critical systems up and running.
3) Sometimes you don't have the right server setup to run a piece of software.
The interesting thing about this is that all of these barriers is that economies of scale make them relatively trivial. What is a huge problem if you are running a small church, is not a huge problem when you are serving 20 or 30 churches. The return on investment becomes much larger.
More to follow... Stay tuned. Let me know what you think about this idea. I am still brainstorming and praying, but I feel like this is something that I have been called to work on.
Posted by reighley at July 13, 2005 01:54 AM
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