November 15th, 2007

Episode 58: No Matter How You Slice It

In this episode, we talk about forming a Catholic Open Source movement, our CU pick of the week is in there somewhere, and a very merciful bishop attempts to save the souls of some lady sheep. Also, some audio backChat, no news is good news on the CatholiCon front, and we chat a little about scripture and tradition. Wow!

UPDATE: If you’ve got a version with no song at the end, we fixed it. You can delete the one in your iTunes library and re-download it by hitting “Update Podcast” again, or you can get it by downloading the link above. Sorry!

Fr. Chris | Posted in CU Podcast | 13 Comments »

  • Rich

    A Catholic Open Source movement is a great idea. I would definitely contribute.

  • http://calendar.ipriest.org.uk Fr. S

    My free (well, I ask you to pray for us at St Thomas, Elson) Calendar is at calendar.ipriest.org.uk. We use the Roman Lectionary in its entirety, but with a couple of extra festivals, and some extra Anglican/Episcopalian data (which many would find useful). If that was a problem, you can always delete those few.

    Although Outlook can import comma separated variable data, my calendar is coded in the industry standard iCalendar format, which is usable on both Mac iCal and Outlook. You guys have a copy of my calendar generator (which is a proper piece of code, not just data!).

    As regards Diocese and Parish databases, I have written a plugin for the typo3 content management system which means that it is runnable from a web browser of your website, and is Open Source. Typo3 can be found at http://www.typo3.org

    Prayers and Blessings

    iPriest

  • Barb in Nebraska

    I really like your idea of a Catholic Open Source movement. I also wanted to share a Wiki for Catholic School teachers to collaborate.

    http://catholicteachersonline.wikispaces.com/

  • lindsaypace

    Josh is building a HTPC! Josh did you know that LG just came out with a Blu-Ray\HD player for under $200? It does’nt write at that price. Do you have a Xbox 360? They make a great media extender. My poor P4 2.53 will not play HD but if I use the xbox to play it on my 22′ Samsung HDCP it works great. I am also slowing buying parts to build a HDCP. I would love to hear your componet list. It would be so cool if you guys would do a video (HD) podcast. Oh would you guys plug your amazon wish list? I would like to now if it is current.

  • http://renaissancefox.com matthew

    i love the idea of a OSS movement within the Church. as a user and proponent of gnu/linux, i would definitely contribute my time and talents.

  • http://www.catholichack.com Joe McClane

    Hi Catholic Underground Crew!

    Thanks for playing the feedback and plugging The Catholic Hack! I appreciate that greatly.

    God Bless
    Joe M

  • http://catholicboard.com Carson Weber

    Yes, it was I who mentioned the E-Ordo. Joshua, let’s say you make $65 an hour for webdesign, and it takes you 2 hours to pump out a Microsoft Outlook datafile containing the liturgical calendar for a year… wouldn’t $20 for that datafile be worth the price for you?

  • http://www.catholicunderground.com/fatherryan Fr. Ryan

    Hey Carson, seeing as the calendar only includes about 8-12 movable feasts and the rest are really just repeat events from last year which will happily repeat again next year, the actual cost-time ratio would mitigate more and more over time. Two hours up front 25 mins the next year, 25 mins the year after that…

    I used to get paid $75 an hour to do house-call computer installations. The thing is that unless the work is constant – unless you’re actually carrying a backlog of clients, you can’t really claim “time is money” from a non-salaried position. Any pay-by-the-job environment is going to have lulls and so I’d say that even if I was making $100 and hour 25 hours a week. It would still be better for me to do it myself…

    I’d pay $5 for it.

    Then again, I’m intensely OCD and would have a hard time trusting someone else to do it right.
    HA!

    Thanks for the comments Carson.
    Pax
    Fr. Ryan

  • http://catholicboard.com Carson Weber

    thanks Fr. Ryan.. I’m listening to old episodes during my commute & heard Fr. Chris mention his desire for “Coffee & the Catechism” – I had created a Sunday morning program with that same title, and it was fun even though the turnout wasn’t spectacular.. Though if a priest marketed it in his homily and was doing the teaching, it might go over well.

  • http://catholicboard.com Carson Weber

    Just ran across this Zenit article: http://www.zenit.org/article-21065?l=english

  • JohnH

    I’m a new listener and really, really enjoyed this episode.

    On open-source software; I would contribute.
    On calendar data; have you seen RomCal? Visit http://www.romcal.net
    On everything else; kudos!

    I hope I don’t bust your bandwidth budget by downloading all the previous episodes.

  • Ken H.

    Hello -

    I know of an on-line Ordo for the USA – here is the URL: http://www.poshusa.org/ordo.php from Priests of the Sacred Heart. Just something that you could look at or bookmark for reference. (It doesn’t have any downloadable version like Ical or other. Just a test-based HTML page.)

    -ken

  • Ken H.

    that should say “text-based” page.