[Linux4christians] OpenLP 2.0 is moving steadily along

[Raoul Snyman]

Hi Folks,

I just thought I'd drop a line to this list and give you all a quick run-down 
of the current state of my OpenLP project.

For those of you who don't know what OpenLP is, it's an open source Church 
presentation program, which allows you to project song lyrics, Bible verses, 
custom slides, images, videos using a data projector as a second monitor. On 
top of that, if you have PowerPoint, PowerPoint Viewer, or OpenOffice.org 
Impress installed, OpenLP can integrate with those applications, and you can 
control your presentation from within OpenLP!

We've been working hard on version 2.0, which is written in Python, using Qt4 
as it's GUI, and the PyQt4 binding to facilitate this. This evening we reached 
another minor milestone when we committed revision 600 to trunk!

Some of the other (implemented) features include:

- Plugin architecture
- Auditing plugin to track song usage
- CCLI SongSelect integration (coming soon!)
- Nursery alerts
- Customisable slide themes
- Cross Platform Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/FreeBSD*


* FreeBSD is untested as yet, but should work.

For more information about OpenLP, see the website, and read the blog:

http://openlp.org/

If you're interested in just chatting with the guys, come join us in 
#openlp.org on Freenode.

If you're interested in helping out, have a look at our development wiki, and 
join us in IRC:

http://wiki.openlp.org/


God bless!
-- 
Raoul Snyman, B.Tech IT (Software Engineering)
Saturn Laboratories
m: 082 550 3754
e: raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za 
w: www.saturnlaboratories.co.za 
b: blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za