<div dir="ltr">Edward,<br>It sounds to me like a wonderful project. I wondered myself why only the Bible was available.<br>Morgan, them being christian does not necessarily imply they would not host other scriptures.<br>The link <a href="http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp">http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp</a> seems to suggest they would be open, for at least putting it on the "Cult / Unorthodox" module add-on section.<br>
<br>I for one welcome our laptop bearing levitating little monk overlords.<br><br>;-)<br><br>Sebastian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/16 Morgan Collett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morgan.collett@gmail.com">morgan.collett@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:15, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> We have a Bible program in Sugar. Sword allows any number of texts,<br>
> dictionaries, and commentaries in any combination of languages to be<br>
> integrated together. I know where many other scriptures in many<br>
> languages are available, and would like to start a project to<br>
> integrate them into Sword and make them globally available. Some of<br>
> the materials are<br>
><br>
> Qur'an, Muslim<br>
> Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh<br>
> Tipitaka and Tripitaka, Buddhist<br>
> Kanjur, Tanjur, Buddhist<br>
> Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Hindu<br>
> Laozi, Juangzi, Daozang, Daoist<br>
> Confucius, Mencius, Confucian<br>
> Talmud, Jewish<br>
> Popul Vuh, Mayan<br>
><br>
> I am open to other suggestions, and will need help with appropriate<br>
> dictionaries and commentaries. This is a large project, and will need<br>
> people with a range of skills. I can contact organizations that work<br>
> on each of the sets of texts listed, but we will need more contacts<br>
> beyond them.<br>
<br>
</div>The Sword activity is based on upstream software available for many platforms:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SWORD_Project" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SWORD_Project</a><br>
<a href="http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp" target="_blank">http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp</a><br>
<br>
Since the upstream organisation is Christian, I doubt they would want<br>
to host the texts you have listed. However we can get them to list the<br>
Sugar Sword activity on their site.<br>
<br>
My interest is to get the reader localized, and create<br>
easy-to-download bundles containing a specific Bible translation<br>
(<a href="http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles" target="_blank">http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles</a>) as<br>
appropriate for specific countries. That's probably easier in the<br>
short term than adding in support to download texts within the<br>
activity, especially as they are large files. In my opinion, most use<br>
would be for a specific text, perhaps including an appropriate<br>
dictionary and commentary.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> o Should I create one ticket for the project, or one per religion, or what?<br>
<br>
</div>Are tickets necessary at this point? I think tickets are best suited<br>
to discrete bits of work that can be assigned to a person and have a<br>
definite completion. I think the tasks consist of work on the<br>
software, localization, work on the content, and creation of bundles<br>
with specific content.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> o Where can we host this?<br>
<br>
</div>We should specifically not use the wiki for hosting the actual<br>
downloads. Downloads from the wiki are slow, and place a lot of load<br>
on it.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<font color="#888888">Morgan<br>
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