Open Source Digital Talking Book Player

[WelchTC]

This is very exciting! Should we host the project here on the LDS Tech web site or somewhere else like Source Forge? If we do it here, individuals would need to sign the Individual Contributors License Agreement before contributing in order to protect themselves and the Church. This agreement basically states that you as a contributor can hold the copyright to your code but that the Church receives a license to that contribution. This is the same agreement all members who want to help on any project sponsored or hosted by the Church would have to sign.

Tom

[cannona-p40]

This is very exciting! Should we host the project here on the LDS Tech web site or somewhere else like Source Forge? If we do it here, individuals would need to sign the Individual Contributors License Agreement before contributing in order to protect themselves and the Church. This agreement basically states that you as a contributor can hold the copyright to your code but that the Church receives a license to that contribution. This is the same agreement all members who want to help on any project sponsored or hosted by the Church would have to sign.

Tom

Are there any other pros/cons to having the Church sponsor it Vs. just doing it on SF or another similar platform? If there is no compelling reason to have the Church sponsor it, I would say that SF would probably be the best option, as this project will be useful to many other groups and organizations besides the Church.

Aaron

[thedqs]

You can choose though since this is not church-specific I think that SourceForge would be the better option.

[mkmurray]

You can choose though since this is not church-specific I think that SourceForge would be the better option.

I agree for the most part. But we're also looking for people to have a reason to come to this site and participate. But that would be the only real argument for Chuch-hosted...

[WelchTC]

Are there any other pros/cons to having the Church sponsor it Vs. just doing it on SF or another similar platform? If there is no compelling reason to have the Church sponsor it, I would say that SF would probably be the best option, as this project will be useful to many other groups and organizations besides the Church.

Aaron

There are no REAL compelling reasons other than some visibility.

Tom

[kalebpederson]

Well, I suppose it is safe to assume then that QT is the best option. I will continue to work on the classes to parse the XML. I'll also draw up an outline of the structure of the application and post that here.

Sounds good. BTW, Qt does a have a set of simple XML classes. Basically readers, writers, SAX Parsers, and a couple of DOM based classes. They have great docs.

Let me know once the project is setup on SF or wherever else it's hosted. I'll gladly help with the initial project hierarchy, best practices, or in whatever other way I can.

--kpederson

[gkearney-p40]

I vote to have it stay here. The good will that such a project could generate for the Church will be lost if it just goes over to SourceForge or some similar site.

Greg

[thedqs]

What is the "good" that would be lost if it goes over to SourceForge? Are you saying that people from the chruch will not use it? I doubt that since the church would just have to link to it. Is it for popularity of the tech site? Well that can be resolved just by putting a link back to this tech site from the sourceforge page that we are given. Would it be a loss in potential people coming to lds.org? I don't see how but I guess would could just recommend people to come to LDS.org from the sourceforge site. Maybe you have identified a part that I haven't taken in account and that would be great to know about.

[gkearney-p40]

First off having a reader will benefit the church as it converts from tape to DAISY format for it's material. I could picture distributing the reader with the books on CD for example. Like PAF it would help the church to have it's name attached to the only cross platform DAISY playback solution.

[thedqs]

Well I don't see how having a project on SourceForge prevents distribution of the sooftware by the church. Especially if the project has the correct licensing. And since it would be nice to get the greater open source community helping with the project I still see SourceFOrge as a better option then hosting it at LDS Tech.