Living Open Source

To use excerpts from videos in church usually requires you to buy a license, which in my humble opinion is ridiculous. Then there is the whole problem with queuing up the DVD to play and finding you’ve got it in the wrong place and instead of showing the desired clip, you show something highly unsuitable [...]

A while ago I reviewed a number of online sources of royalty-free images. While most of these permit you to use images created by others, being certain of what rights you have to reuse and redistribute is not that clear and you nearly always need to contact the originator before you use the image for [...]

I’ve just started a new Lectionary Flickr group for anybody that is interested. If you have a Flickr account you can join this visual and creative way of reflecting on the lectionary readings each week. Simply upload your images to a Flickr account, join the Lectionary group and then in the Flickr Organiser you can [...]

Last week I kicked off this series by introducing you to the concept of Creative Commons for licensing creative works. It is a way of sharing creative works that maintains rights for artists while providing a framework for more freedom in sharing and reuse. In this post we are going to begin exploring this world, [...]

There is something so gospel-like about the open source world and yet Christendom can take no credit for it. The concept of open source software has been around a while, with many high profile success stories like Linux, OpenOffice, WordPress, to name a few. But the Open Source concept is also becoming increasingly popular in [...]