Re: Religious study software

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> I came across this on freshmeat.net:
> 
> <http://www.crosswire.org/>
> 
> This is the SWORD Project, an "effort to create an ever expanding
> software package for research and study of God and His Word."  I
> occurred to me that this might be useful in religious schools, which as
> Bill mentioned often don't have the bureaucratic layers to work through
> that public schools do.  Does anyone know anything about this?  Are
> there comparable projects for the study of the Koran, the Torah, the
> Talmud, etc.?

I tried it a few months ago and couldn't get it to compile.  It's a bit
of a shame - I wouldn't mind checking it out myself.

You're right that private and religious schools are good targets for
seul-edu.  They are often VERY cash strapped.

I went to a Mennonite high school, and their computer budget is pretty
dismal, though they did manage to get a few Win95 boxes in the last 3-4
years.  I had been working on the computer guy and trying to talk him
into letting me set up a Linux server for them.  He seemed bent on NT
for whatever reason.  That was a while ago.

Recently I found out that they did install an NT/Win95/Linux triple boot
system.  I don't know what they're doing with it, but hopefully they'll
be impressed.