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!

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.

The other month an extension to the alerting component was added allow alerts to be triggered over a network.  This will be useful for creche's and car park attendants

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.

As you can see from the counter, openlp.org currently has 183 594 lines of code, and would cost a dedicated development team $2.5 million to write. If you use openlp.org, and you like it, would you please consider signing up on Ohloh and at least mark that you use it. If you'd like to, please feel free to write a review, and giving the developers kudo is always welcome.

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?

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.

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.

No, we're not releasing OpenLP 2.0, my wife and I are expecting a baby.

From time to time in the past I have blogged things of a more personal nature, which I know some of the OpenLP community have welcomed, and I figured that most of the community would like to hear this bit of news.

My wife is booked for a caesarean section on Wednesday, 29th July. This is our first child, and we're both excited, but also daunted at the responsibility we have been given to take care of this baby. We would most certainly appreciate your prayers for the operation and for the adjustments we have to make and for the additional financial consequences of a child.

Of course, having a new born baby is unfortunately also going to impact the amount of work I can do on OpenLP, but I'm hoping that it won't be taking away too much of my time.

Thanks for your prayers and support!

I feel really sorry for our testers who use Mac OS X, because they have to go through a real mission to get OpenLP 2.0 up and running on their machines. One of our testers who uses Mac OS X was brave enough to undertake that massive task, and sent in the screenshot below to prove to us that it *is* possible. Well done Andreas!

Let's start with a screen shot:

The Service Manager is nearing completion and it is now possible to save are restore orders of services.

The screen shot also shows that individual verses are visible within songs. These can be selected as the starting place for the times when the worship leader decides to start in a different place to normal.

Hello everyone,

As Raoul has already announced testing time is here. I have been asked to help organize this effort. I have a pretty good list of possible testers, but the more the merrier.  I have already emailed many of you, if I haven't yet I will be getting to that soon (its a holiday weekend in the States and I've been more out of pocket than I thought). Here is a link for some info on testing openlp.org. If you are interested in testing just send me PM from the openlp.org site. Any help we can get will be greatly appreciated!