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Two Trackbacks - First Things & OpenSource.com

Submitted by oscatholic on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 7:20am
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Recently, this site has had a nice influx of visitors from the following two articles:

1. First Things / First Thoughts: Sources for Open Sources

I stumbled across Open Source Catholic while looking for something entirely different, and as our webmaster says it looks like a useful site, pass it along. It includes stories with mysterious titles like Drupal Gardens enters Open Public Beta and understandable ones like Live-Blogging to Drive Traffic, Interest to Organizational Events. Some of you may find it useful.

2. opensource.com: Give me some of that old-time, open source religion

A reader tossed us a link to opensourcecatholic.com. This of course raised the question—which Google happily answered: Is there an intersection between open source and religion? 8,910,000 results say yes. Whether you have a church home, a home church, or simply some spiritual foundation that you hold to because you believe it, it’s likely that this faith is helped by fellowship, and educated through both doctrine and some form of social networking. What you believe—the specifics of it at least—is usually information that needs to be explored, maintained, and perhaps shared.

OSC Users' RSS Feeds... soon to be aggregated

Submitted by oscatholic on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 2:37pm
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In the next week or two, I'm going to configure the Feeds module to begin aggregating RSS feeds added on Open Source Catholic members' profile pages. If you'd like your feed added, make sure you go to your user account page (log in and click on 'My account' under your username) and Edit it to add the URL.

Major Updates to Open Source Catholic!

Submitted by oscatholic on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 11:20pm
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During this Easter season, I saw fit to spend a few hours on the OSC website, which has, I admit, taken a back seat to many of my other web projects, most notably the Archdiocese of St. Louis website and some other little projects I'm dabbling in (like an experimental HTML5 site).

Here are some of the recent changes I've made:

  • OSC Member Tweets are back online!
    (I Installed an updated version of Drupal's Twitter module. Cron is now much faster, and old Tweets are cleared from the database, so I feel save using the module again).
  • OSC Wiki Pages are being added! (and anyone with an account can edit them!)
    (Right now they're pretty sparse, but I plan on taking on the development of these pages as a personal project—mostly so I can have a nice resource to refer the poor helpless chaps that are burdened with parish/diocesan web development, but need help).
  • Theming Issues are being cleaned up!
    (I've spent a little more time working with the Airy Blue theme (on drupal.org) and fixing small theming issues I've found on OSC, in particular).

BUT, most importantly, the 'Beta' status of this site has been removed! I figure almost a year into the site's existence, it is time. Check out the new and improved (and 5 KB lighter) header at the top of this page!

Any other suggestions? Comments are welcome :)

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