Empower Your Church
Your church was just given a data projector and you want to use it to display the lyrics of songs. You were thinking of using PowerPoint, but after a test found it very unwieldy. Then someone suggested that you look at commercial church presentation software, but when you looked at the price tag, you knew your church could not afford that kind of money. You begin to wonder if you should just go back to hymn books and just leave projection of song words to bigger churches who can afford to do it.
Allow us to present the solution to the problem: openlp.org
Unlimited Freedom
openlp.org is free. And it's not just a below-standard freebie thing, it's a powerful, elegant open source application. What does that mean? It means that the code that the developers write is available to you. But more than that, it means that openlp.org is, and always will be, free. Free to download, free to use, free to give to all your friends. Unlimited freedom, like the freedom we find in Christ.
Find Out More
Want to learn more about openlp.org? Have a look at the documentation, which contains everything from getting started, to submitting bug reports. Discuss problems and issues with other users of openlp.org in the forums, and read up on what the developers are doing via the developer blogs. See what other people are saying. If you wanna take a sneak peek at openlp.org before downloading it, have a look at the screenshots. Lastly, download and install openlp.org.
Version 1.2.1 is available
V1.2.1 is purely a bug fix release, solving
- A translation bug in the Portuguese language
- A problem if a default display was not selected in the First Run Wizard
- A display numbering issue causing "index out-of-bounds" exceptions
- A bug with the blank screen notification message being on the wrong display at startup
- A bug where in certain Windows display configurations, the Verse search button was not visible
Derek.
CCLI Lists openlp.org as SongSelect enabled!
Hi All
Just to let you know that CCLI (Germany) that has listed openlp.org on their website as projection software supporting SongSelect as well as supporting the German language.
http://www.ccli.de/songselect/import-praesentationssoftware.cfm#OpenLP
God bless,
Derek.
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1.2.0 - A bug or 2 :)
Well, it would appear as if there are 1 or 2 small (?) issues that I missed in my testing. Firstly, it's important to select a monitor in the First Run Wizard. Failure to do so will result in an error message, but the software will still run fine afterwards.
Secondly, in some cases, the Search Button in the Bible Verse Lookup goes missing.
I plan to make these corrections in the next few days and release an update. Feel free to try and find as many bugs as you can in 1.2.0 so we can make 1.2.1 bug free :D
Derek.
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Version 1.2.0 is now available
Hi all,
For those of you out there that don't have musicians to play music for your church service and use audio tracks, version 1.2.0 will be a welcome surprise (since it wasn't in the project plan). Due to a personal requirement, I continued development on the v1.x line of openlp.org and added the facility to play audio files. Not only that, but they can be linked to lyrics and managed together.
Welcome to Jon Tibble
This is a little late, but better late than never... I want to welcome Jon Tibble to the OpenLP 2.0 core development team.
Jon has been helping us out with come coding recently, and has proven himself to be a real asset. He's not only been working on some of the bigger things, he's also gone in and worked on a lot of the smaller bits that we haven't been able to devote time to. He's got a real eye for detail and is a meticulous developer.
So, from me and all the rest of the core developers: Welcome Jon!
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Commit 550 has passed and new components have arrived
Work on the 2.0 version is moving forward at great speed with new developers helping out.
In the last few weeks code has been added to run Impress presentations on Linux. Work is underway to get this to also work on Windows. Powerpoint and PowerPoint Viewer will come later.
In the latest merge a new Audit plugin has arrived to audit songs used during a service. This will record what was actually used during a service. More work is needed on this component but the foundations are complete.
Find us on Ohloh!
If you haven't noticed it before, let me draw your attention to the bottom little black bar underneath the menu on the left. This is a little counter and a link to our project page on the Ohloh website. Ohloh is a site where open source projects can have a project page, and users of the software can write reviews, indicate that they use the software, and give the developers "kudo". It's kinda like a Facebook for open source projects.
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A Linux Server Distribution For Churches?
I've just written a blog entry on a blog I take part in for Christians in Open Source Software, and I thought that some folks who use openlp.org might be interested in reading my blog entry, and possibly commenting on it.
Without further ado, here is the link: A Linux Server Distribution For Churches?
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New Milestone towards Version 2.
Without the aid of a sceen shot revision 500 has been committed to the repository.
We are making progress with Songs , Bibles and Custom plugins working resonably.
The ServiceManager and ThemeManagers allow services to be saved and loaded and themes imported from version1.
We are still a few months away from an alpha release but we are making good progress.
It's a Boy!
Just to let everyone in OpenLP-land know that my wife and I now have a lovely healthy baby boy! He was born at 12:16 on Wednesday 29 July, and weighed 3.57 kilograms. For the full story and pictures, you can read the blog post on my personal blog.
