Bible Study software inclusion in Edubuntu seeds

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

Hello all

The following packages are available in Ubuntu/Debian. Xiphos,
BibleTime, Bibledit and Biblemermorizer. Along with a dependency on
libsword to processing electronic bibles and similar texts. Also
libsword includes command line tools for bible reading, search &
installing with possobility to modify and run as PHP scripts.

I would like to propose Xiphos for inclusion into Gtk seed and
BibleTime into KDE seed.

Both are fully fledged bible study tools which are very mature and
have a lot of users.

Libsword will be pulled as a dependency.

Bibledit and Biblememorizer are smaller in scrope apps. They are
helper tools for translating/digitalizing bibles and facilitating
memorizing Scriptures.

Along with sword, CrossWire Bible Society publishes bibles and similar
texts on their ftp mirrors. All of which is in public domain & freely
distributable (a bit like gutenberd) but the format used is the one
libsword understands. Some of these texts are in the archive as well,
and both front-ends can install modules from the internet into
~/.sword such that you can use either frontend to read your bibles.

I do understand the religion is a touchy subject and might not be
appropriate for global audience of Edubuntu but I hope that these
packages can be recognized and included in Edubuntu seeds....

Thanks for your attention and I'll be glad to answer any question.

References:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~pkgcrosswire/+maintained-packages
http://xiphos.org/
http://www.bibletime.info/
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp
http://sites.google.com/site/bibledit/
http://biblememorizer.sourceforge.net/

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With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич

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