Our friend Dave Warnock shares his excitement at discovering Datasoul — free, open source, church presentation software. I’ve downloaded it myself, and it does look good. Dave is appealing for Java programmers to get involved to make it even better.
My latest software find is the web-based drop.io, a simple solution for private file-sharing, collaboration and presentation. Very simple and elegant, drop.io promises to be useful in all kinds of ways. Give it a go.
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Dave Warnock 11.07.09 at 11:40 pm
I’m feeling quite pleased with myself. I have sent in two patches for Datasoul. a) to start work on support for remote presenters and b) to use tabs for the main interface which is a lot clearer. Don’t know if Samuel will accept my very amateur contributions yet. The code base is pretty simple and mostly straightforward (at least if you use netbeans).
As alternatives to drop.io there is box.net but Ubuntu users get the much much cooler Ubuntu One. 2Gb of free storage synchronised automatically across as many ubuntu machines as you like. Ubuntu rocks! (oh and Datasould works lovely on Linux
Richard 11.08.09 at 12:03 am
I’m full of admiration for you Dave. I’ve never learned any Java. Perhaps I should try…
Ubuntu One sounds like a good wheeze. What I like about drop.io is that you can easily set up a new “drop” for a specific purpose and schedule it to disappear completely if you want it to.
Dave Warnock 11.08.09 at 12:41 am
It is hardly that impressive it was my job for near;y 25 years
That is particularly impressive given java is only just over 10 years old 
I don’t like my files disappearing automatically - that is what windows is for!
Richard 11.08.09 at 1:13 am
You’ve clearly always been ahead of your time!