1 Sep 2010: College classes are starting up all across the country. Will you join us in praying for wisdom for the many professors who are desiring to share their heart for Christ and for missions with the students in their classrooms?
30 Aug 2010: LightSys' Monday Prayer Meeting tonight at 9pm EDT / 6pm PDT. How can we be praying for *you*?
26 Aug 2010: Tomorrow morning (Friday), Tim and Patricia will start off on their next trip "to the West Coast." It will take them to Portland and Seattle, Los Angeles, Arizona, Colorado, Toronto, and Delaware (among other places). Ok. So "West" is relative. They will be back sometime in February.
16 Aug 2010: Here at LightSys, we're praying about where to base our ministry long-term. Would you join with us in prayer, for wisdom and God's touch and leading as we plan and decide?
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Tim Young writes on Aug 5:
"Hard-Drive Status (S.M.A.R.T)"
Many people I help out have been wondering about the quality of their Hard-drives. There are very few moving parts inside a computer, one of the primary ones is the hard-drive. These can ...
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Potter's Ministries - COSS: Potter's Ministries is a partner ministry in the Christian Open Source Software (COSS) effort, now being realized in the new CODN site.
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Kardia and Centrallix
One of our visions from the earliest days of LightSys planning was to
offer a full-fledged administrative and communications platform for
missions organizations. Not only so, but to find ways in which we could
bring that technology to missions of various sizes and budgets, and to
help encourage and empower sharing and working together between
different missions groups.
The Kardia and Centrallix projects are the fleshing out of that
vision: Centrallix as the Infrastructure/Foundation, and Kardia as
the Expression.
See the FAQs on Centrallix
and Kardia for more information.
More About Kardia...
Kardia is a missions administrative system built on top of the
Centrallix technology. Kardia represents a strategic partnership between
LightSys and various missions groups. The key distinctives of Kardia's
goals are listed below:
- Multiplatform: The core tool, Centrallix, is being built to run on
multiple platforms, and has been tested on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
- Ease of Deployment: Missions and ministries often do not have the
resources to support a "thick client" deployment of a complex technology.
- Ease of Customization: Every mission works differently, and so Kardia
must be able to accomodate customizations, without those customizations
interfering with the supportability or upgradability of the core product,
and ideally placing the job of customization within the reach of someone
who is not an expert programmer.
- Secure: Security will continue to be more and more critical, and
so a system providing rich, strong, and flexible security is important.
- Free: Our goal is for the entire system to be free of hard costs,
meaning no fees for system components and no per-user licensing fees.
- Collaborative: Kardia uses technologies which encourage and
support collaborative open-source development of the system itself, and
the development tools themselves are free, meaning any developer can
join the effort without having to first purchase expensive tools.
- Distributed: It is important that Kardia be able to operate in
connected and disconnected (offline) modes, and be able to synchronize
between installations, whether servers or workstations.
- Vision for the Future: Kardia is being constructed in such a way
as to provide investment protection, so when technology changes again and
again, Kardia and its foundation technologies will remain relevant and
modern.
For more information about Kardia:
More About Centrallix...
Centrallix is an application platform tool, and forms the foundation
for this work. It represents a strategic partnership between LightSys
and the high-tech community, including both university students and
seasoned IT professionals. The key distinctives of Centrallix include:
- Geared Towards Kardia: It is built with the end-goals of
Kardia (see below) in mind, and inherits all of the complex
requirements needed to support a system like Kardia.
- Abstraction: Applications, Data, and Logic are all
abstracted in an object-structured, declarative system, thus
isolating the data source, data, logic, presentation, and
delivery mechanisms from one another. We believe that
application-centered aspects (data, logic, and presentation
logic) should not be mixed with system-centered aspects (data
sources, presentation language, and delivery vehicle).
- Thin-Client: Centrallix is geared towards a generic
thin-client deployment, and currently sports a rich GUI running
inside a browser. In fact, Centrallix was using "AJAX" type
technologies through-and-through as early as 1998!
- Declarative: A major goal is to empower the creativity
and productivity of technologists in missions and ministry by
providing a tool that can create and customize applications,
without involving procedural programming.
For more information about Centrallix:
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