[Ldsoss] New Scriptures Beta Test Site

[Jesse Stay]

I can only select English as the language for the scriptures.  How do
we select other languages?

Jesse

On 6/12/06, Tom Welch <welchtc at ldschurch.org> wrote:
> Although I am over the open source initiative for the Church, I've also
> been asked to help project manage the online scriptures program.  The
> current version that is on http://scriptures.lds.org has been up for
> quite some time.  It had some limitations in that there was no easy way
> to deploy additional languages.  For quite some time a new version of
> the scriptures has been under development.  It has been designed around
> supporting multiple languages.  So, although the initial look and feel
> of this new version does not look much different, it is a completely
> rewritten piece of code.  I'm sending this email to enlist your help in
> testing this new scriptures program.  You can find it at
> http://beta.scriptures.lds.org.  Give it a try and send me feedback on
> bugs or improvements.
>
> Here is a piece of history about this software that I think is of HIGH
> interest to this audience.  This program was not written by the Church
> but was written by a member and then donated to the Church.  Even the
> original version that has been on the website for some time was written
> by this member.  The Church has offered help with some pieces of the
> work (translation, technical advice, etc) but 99% of the code was done
> by this member and a few others who helped him.  I've talked with the
> member about the possibility of open sourcing this code and allowing
> others to work on it and he is fully supportive of this approach.  Using
> an open source approach, we could add PDA links, alternate formatting
> and an API set to integrate the online scriptures into other programs.
> We are not sure this will happen yet as there may be some extenuating
> circumstances we have to first solve but I thought you all would find it
> interesting that an open source model can work for the Church.
>
> Meanwhile, please help test http://beta.scriptures.lds.org and thanks
> for your help!
>
> Tom
> --
> Tom Welch
> welchtc at ldschurch.org
> (801) 240-1609
> (858) 829-4614 - Cell
>
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