So true, isn’t it? It’s even more true in ministry where we can’t always afford the best equipment.
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So true, isn’t it? It’s even more true in ministry where we can’t always afford the best equipment.
To God be the Glory through less-than-bleeding edge!
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oschurch says
So glad you brought this up. Of course, I believe that if we as churches and non-profits invest in open source culture in general and open source software specifically, in the near future (if not now) we can have the best of both worlds? The cool thing about open source is that the more contributors you have (whether for code, documentation, bug reports, etc.), the better it gets. If you don’t like a certain open source alternative compared to your expensive proprietary software, really the only person you can blame is yourself for not helping to make it better. However, many open source projects are already competing very well with their proprietary alternatives. In fact, if you invest a little time to learn something new, you just might decide that certain things in open source land are even better. If you haven’t checked os alternatives out lately, maybe you should take another look? For this forum, I would recommend:
Ubuntu for OSX
Gimp for Photoshop; Gimp Painter for Corel Painter
Inkscape for Illustrator
Scribus for InDesign
Blender for After Effects/Maya
Kdenlive for FCP
If they aren’t exactly what you want, no worries, start using them and figure out how you can help make them more like what you want! That might mean adding documentation once you figure out something that’s not obvious. It might mean being a part of the UI redesign effort. It might mean just getting others to use them too so they can help as well! Just imagine if every church always defaulted to open source alternatives and helped invest in them. Not only would the software start working much better for church usecases (if it doesn’t already), but it would get better for everyone. And then, maybe, just maybe we can have our eye candy without decaying our pocketbook too.
So there you have it, you can continue to ask/complaining the same questions year after year, pay more for more or less for less, yada, yada, yada…or start investing in open source now so in a few months or years you can quit asking the question altogether. I can attest personally that it is totally worth it.
Kevin
http://opensourcechurch.com
Travis Fish says
Haha so true. Ive worked in so many ministries where we’ve ghetto rigged stuff. lol