After many hours of coding in my spare time, I’m pleased to announce the public launch of inConversation!

inConversation is an aggregation of blog posts related to Campus Crusade for Christ International. It’s a place where:

• You can keep up to date on what’s happening around the world in CCC.
• Get in contact with others who share the same passions as you.
• Add your own blog to those that are aggregated.

We’ve just finished setting everything up on the new server, but you can expect more blogs to be added to the site very soon! Word has it that there may be some influential CCC bloggers signing up, why not join them?!

The site is user-drivern. Check out the wiki for documentation and upcoming features, etc!

I’d like to say a special thank-you to Keith Seabourn and his team at the Global Technology Office for encouragement and resourcing to make this happen!

I’ve launched the GCX community for discussion about a CCCI Planet website and feed for those of you who are interested. Search for ‘planet’ on the GCX community browse page to request an invite.

If you were wondering, a ‘planet’ in this case refers to an aggregation of blogs around a certain topic (in this case, CCC).

(This post for CCC staff again…) Forgot to mention earlier, but even if joining our Web MPD GCX community isn’t for you, please take a few minutes to fill out our (short, 9 questions only!) survey about how you do MPD. And please pass this on to other staff! Thanks!

(This post is aimed at CCC staff).

Some of you may have heard me talk about the need for a web-based MPD application. After playing around with some code for a while and talking to Troy (TNTMPD creator) and others, I’ve finally launched a GCX community to further discussion and collaboration on the idea.

If you’re CCC staff, and have been looking for something like this – or just like the idea – then please consider joining this GCX community.

Update: To join, head to the GCX community browse page and search for webmpd.

Note: For those who were wondering, this post has nothing to do with the drink, and everything to do with my inner geek.

This post is to give some info on how to get the lyrics presentation software Openlp working on your Linux install. I didn’t really have to do any tinkering, things pretty much just worked. Here is my setup:

• Multiple monitor setup already working in Linux, with KDE and Xinerama.
• Wine 0.9.57 (configured as Windows XP)
• Openlp 1.0

I ran the installation with Wine, and everything seemed to go smoothly. Once running Openlp, the display settings drop down box has an option to display lyrics on “Monitor 2 on X11 Windowing System”.

The only thing I’ve had problems with so far is displaying alerts; no text ever seems to show (just the red background). Not sure if this is an Openlp bug or a Wine problem yet. Hope this post helps someone!