I recently shut down my source.emptycrate.com website which was used for Christian open source project hosting. This was due to several factors but the single event that caused me to shut it down when I did was a server problem with my old host.
I've since moved to a new host which does not allow me the flexibility to run a source control server, so shutting down the website was a necessity. That is, without spending more money and effort than I was willing to move to a service that would continue to allow me to run the source site.
Another reason I was willing to shut down the site is that I noticed that the google code project provides the level of integration between blogging, wiki and source control that I was unable to provide. It is much faster, lighter and more stable than sourceforge (the problems with sourceforge was one reason I opened my site in the first place).
I can tell from the google searches reaching my site that there is still some interest in Christian Programming, so I'll continue to make information available here.
If you are aware of Christian (or non-profit) software that needs to be written, but don't have the skills to, use the contact us link at the top of the page and we'll try and get the project started.
If you know of any software that used to be hosted on the source.emptycrate.com site that you are missing, let me know and I'll get the software hosted again on googlecode.
Action Item
Anyone who is interested in starting a Christian open source project should go to googlecode, create your project and tag it with "Christian" (examples). Then, come back here and link to your newly created project with a comment!
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Christian Games
Do you know of any christian files that can be added to some of the rhythm games that are out there as Open Source?
Frets on Fire http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ (GPL License)
It's a great Guitar Hero clone, and they are working to make it more like Rock Band, but for the PC. It has Windows, Linux, and Mac ports. The problem is that almost everyone is making stuff for regular music. It would be nice to have some christian songs for this.
There is a commercial Christian Guitar Hero clone that is coming out for the PC. Here is a link to them and their song list.
http://www.guitarpraise.com/song_list.php
Then there is Stepmania a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) clone.
http://www.stepmania.com/ (BSD License)
The video arcade games "In the Groove" and "Pump It Up Pro" use StepMania as their game engine. It has Windows, Linux, and Mac ports. Again the problem is that everyone is making step files/patterns for regular music rather than Christian music.
Again there is a Christian (PC) version of the this out, but I was thinking if someone could make free step files for your own Christian music, then you could give it away to people as an alternative to secular games.
http://www.dancepraise.com/home.php
Anyway I left my email address in case you want to get in contact.
Music really isn't my thing
I don't know anything about how one might go about making Christian songs for rhythm games, or what the licensing implications might be, but I'm more than open to people using this thread to discuss things like this, let's ee if anyone has links to add...
Biblestudygroup atlas
Hi there,
I thought to share with you some of my vision of creating biblestudygroup web application to find biblegroups via google-map specific search
operation....I have done some basic functionality and would like to integrate it with some biblereading application...
it is hosted on google code repository server in the following url
http://biblestudygroupatlas.googlecode.com
Anyone have some ideas about how to integrate it with some open source bilblestudy application ?
BR Pasi