Supporting
THE BIBLE STUDENT'S COCKPIT
Or better yet "The Growing Christian's Environment"
An aircraft flight panel is designed to provide efficient access to all resources a pilot needs to fly in all weather and conditions. What we need it an equivalent environment for the growing Christian. There are some good tools, but a Biblically complete learning environment has not been engineered yet.
What We're Fixing
Most Bible study programs to date have had no agenda and no ability to interact with others, they are just a search tool. The Great Commission describes a learning process in which the student is provided wise mentors who teach, train, answer questions, challenge and support them. Anything less is not what the Bible describes as the minimum essential requirements for Christian growth.
Asking me to fantisize about software might be a mistake on your part ;-)
I've been thinking about web2.0 community driven sites quite a bit lately -
(Submitted Dec 16 2006)
Web 2.0 Community Driven Sites
1. Make it personal
I would want to do my own hi-lites, add notes, cross references to other verses and other extra-biblical resources. I would want to be able to create devotionals, studies, etc. with references, to my notes and verses dynamically included (blog-ish?).
2. Add tags - like catigorized hi-lites to texts
I read a passage, it has meaning to my life that can be expressed as some single word value or values ('holiness', 'money', 'giving', 'prayer', etc) - later on, I can look up my 'holiness' tagged verses/passages.
Brainstorming ideas about an ideal Bible site for the next generation. (Nov/Dec 2005)
[[What are your ideas??]]
1. Advanced Search
- Basic words
- Verse/chapter/book
- Notes
- Materials
- Topical
- Languages
- Versions
- Strong + Greek
- Grammatical
- Word family
- Synonim
- Thesauruses
- Audio search
- History log
- From my site
2. Display Alternatives
- Mini site (download via handphone)
- Reverse verse index + materials
- Read bible in one year
- Read devotional in one year
- Target gateways
- Parallel
Ideas from Letters/Articles received.
- OSIS
- Dreams/Metaphors
- Fonts/Unicode/Search
- #2 for Notes
- Subversion/Process
- Next Gen
- Taxonomy
- Architecture of Participation
- Tag Bible
- Ideal Bible site
The following are currently on-going -- they are parallel activities, sub-projects,
and new development/research to further improve and enhance this NextGen Project !!
- MicroWeb -- Running nextgen site and scripts directly from a CD (pseudo-server).
- Test Bed -- Usability and Compatibility Testing (Browsers, Scripts, ...).
- ITL -- Interlinearization Tools, Scripts, Data Structures, and Platform.
- TRAC -- Our "Project Management System", web based,with trouble tickets, milestones, and wiki.
- ExtremeProgramming -- Philosophy for Rapid Cycle Time, Development, Testing and User Delivery.
- Subversion -- Used via TRAC as enhanced version control system to faciliate process improvement.
- ODT/ODF -- Exploring NON-MSword solutions for editors/data (such as OpenOffice), and XML/OOo docs.
- XML Tools/Scripts -- Exploring XML tools/libs for file management, DIFF (XMLdiff), clean/lint, etc.
- Actively exploring many open source packages; PHPGroupware, XPlanner, Libs, etc, and also CMSes.
- AND various aspects/tools/scripts of ... DOM, XML, JS, RSS, Tags, AJAX, Web2.0, etc ...
- Bible.Org NextGen -- Researching/Exploring/Testing for the creation of Bible.Org's next site/platform.
Our current project management tool/system, trouble ticket tracker, Subversion data repository, and basic information wiki. Please feel free to look around, including adding comments, suggestions, or even reporting bugs/fixes. FWIW: Trac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system emphasizing ease of use and low ceremony. It provides an interface to the Subversion revision control systems, integrated Wiki and convenient report facilities. At present the following two NextGen projects are registered and active in TRAC:
- "NETBible DB Project" and
- "NETBible Versi
