Free churches software for linux

Lyricue 1.9.10 is an extremely useful utility for everyone. It can be used to edit/display song lyrics on a second screen/projector for use at singing events such as church services.

Major Features:

1. Web interface available
2. OpenGL accelerated server using Clutter
3. Video backgrounds
4. Display over live video
5. Runs in English, German, French, Dutch or Swedish
6. Networkable (i.e. run interface and server on different machines)
7. User access controls
8. Multiple Playlists
9. Copyright info for songs
10. Automatic Page advance
11. Duplicate/Delete individual pages in playlist
12. Preferences Dialog
13. Re-orderable playlist
14. Playlist entries to change background
15. Can run at configurable resolution
16. User-specific configuration/images (or can all refer to global one)
17. All songs kept in a database and so screens are dynamically generated, allowing you to easily change the backdrop, font etc without having to change all the songs
18. Can automatically create screens for bible verses (KJV included since there are licensing issues with NIV)
19. Quick searching for songs
20. Playlist shown as collapsible tree so easy to find wanted page
21. Can use any image as backdrop (stored in database)
22. Can add images to playlist (stored in database)
23. Add/Edit/Remove Songs (even while they are being displayed)
24. Honourize a song (change 'jesus' to 'Jesus' etc)
25. Preview a song as you enter it
26. Drag'n'Drop playlist adding
27. Searching by song name or the lyrics themselves
28. Change Font/Colours of server
29. Graphical error reporting
30. Spellchecking
    

Enhancements:

• Drag'n'Drop backgrounds
• First-run wizard to help with initial setup
• Much better automatic handling of multiple monitors
• Preview displays now look/scale better

Requirements:

• Gtk2-Perl 1.020
• MySQL 4.0.12
• Perl 5.8.0

IRC Services are Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC operator control over the network.
Main features:
- Nickname management. Services allows users to "register" nicknames, and will prevent users other than the registrant from using them. Services also maintains information about each registered nickname, including the last time the nicks owner was online as well as a URL and E-mail address that can be set by the user.
- Channel management. Like nicknames, Services allows users to register channels as well. A channels owner can give privileges to other users of the channel, such as auto-opping or the ability to set various channel options, or conversely deny other users the ability to obtain channel operator privileges or even enter the channel altogether. Services will remember the topic on the channel even after the last user leaves, and can automatically set modes on the channel whenever a user joins it.
- Messages to offline users. Probably every IRC user has gone through the experience of waiting and waiting for someone to come online in order to pass a message along or ask a question. Services alleviates this with a "memo" system, allowing users to leave messages for other users even if the recipient is not online at the time; the recipient will be notified of the memo the next time they log on.
- Centralized network control. Services includes features which allow IRC operators greater control over the IRC network through a single point, and also defines multiple privilege levels for IRC operators with respect to Services itself. For example, IRC operators with sufficient privileges can use Services to set modes on any channel; it is also possible to ban users or groups of users from connecting to the network entirely, and such bans ("autokills" in Services terminology) will remain active even if a server, or Services itself, splits from the network.
Furthermore, each of these sets of features can be configured or disabled to match individual networks policies.
Whats New in 5.1pre4 Development Release:
- This release corrects various minor issues in the previous beta release and updates the ratbox protocol module to better support current versions of the ircd-ratbox server (note that versions earlier than 2.1 are no longer supported).
Whats New in 5.0.61 Stable Release:
- This release fixes a bug which allows users to crash Services on x86-64 (and potentially other non-x86) platforms.

Groupy project is an open source content management system that allows groups within an organization to share multi-lingual content. Groupy provides a unique tool for organizing diverse content types (Articles, News, Files, Images, Events, etc...) in a rich editing environment similar to a wiki. I want Groupy to be great blog, a great file and image gallery, a great on-line calendar, and mailing list manager all with an easy to use consistant interface.
Groupy comes from several years of working with, writing plug-ins and skins for several other content management systems. In particular wordpress, joomla, and mediawiki. I found it odd that in order to set up what I considered a fully functional church website I needed multiple installations of these systems, and that integrating them was extremely painful. I also noticed that there was significant functional overlap present and that in general there could be opportunity for much code sharing. Thus I have undertaken the daunting task to bring them together.
Main features:
- Highly extensible plug-in architecture.
- Flexible skin system.
- All strings fully internationalized.
- Infrastructure for multi-language sites.
- Organized code base with minimal global functions.
- All content types extend a common base class.
- Revision history kept for all content.
- Text body for all content allows for links to other content.
- Ability to email content to subscribed users.
- Ability to comment on content
Enhancements:
- The rich editor was switched to use tinymce, which is far more robust and full-featured.
- A dialog was added in the rich editor to search for and insert content to embed.
- XML Feed support (RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, ATOM 0.3, ATOM 1.0) was added for every group.
- Setup now allows a user to specify a superuser login.
- Several performance enhancements were made.
- The documentation was updated.
- Some fixes were made.

Crossfire TRT project is an advancement of the crossfire multi-user RPG game. Unlike the original project, it focuses mainly on stability and playability, but also adds modern technology such as map scripting, Perl server extensions, asynchronous I/O, higher resolution graphics, and better client support.
Main features:
- Death is not permanent, and you can get back all lost stats and experience by playing a game in a special place named Nimbus. You are teleported there when you die and you have to play a game (currently minesweeper) to get out.
- Friendly fire is disabled and playerkilling is also modified. You can only kill another player when you and the other player are hostile. To become hostile, you have to visit the church of Gorokh in Scorn and talk to the priest. To become peaceful again, visit the curch of Valriel and talk to its priest.
- Invitation of other players to where you are is possible with the invite command. You have to solve the invitor quest (see below in maps) to be able to use the command.
- You can follow other players with the follow command when you stand next to the player you want to follow.
- Pet monsters and summoned creatures will not stand in the way of other party members, making it bearable to play with summoning skills in a party.
- Map and graphics artists are working on improved graphics and new maps and quests.
- A new currency: the Royalty. Its worth 100 Platinum and is made of paper. (The bank script was completly rewritten in Perl)
- The communication commands have been rewritten in Perl and an ignore command was added.
- Trade shops have been implemented in Perl, which allows the player to trade items when they are offline.
- Big 64x64 faces and tiles have been introduced, which have a higher detail level than the old 32x32 tiles, and can be used with the CFPlus client.
Enhancements:
- optimised event invocation (non-wanted events can now be skipped with 4-5 inlined instructions).
- complete rewrite of town_portal: it now creates a portal to the "nearest" town only, travel is only possible to the town and back, anybody can use it (also removes one of the remaining syncpoints in the server).
- complete rewrite of the range/attack skill slot system: there are now two slots, one for combat, one for ranged attacks.
- introduce the concept of a current weapon (either a ranged or a combat weapon/skill/tool) and switch between them as needed.
- rewrite bow code so bows get more useful: apply damage, attacktype and other stats to the arrows and treat bows as weapons. also rebalance the missile weapons skill so its damage increases with level.
- rewrite the complete player speed logic: weapon_speed now works as documented and there are no unnatural speed boosts.
- implement a utility - cfutil - that simplifies arch and map installation, replacing the old collect scripts and simplying deployment by scaling and cutting faces as required.
- simplify the map protocol extensively by taking advantage of missing bigfaces, speeding up map generation immensely.
- implement inherit keyword allowing archetypes to inherit from other archetypes.
- rationalise archetype, region and treasurelist file format into a single file format and make them reloadable asynchronously.
- make the worldmap, facedata (smoothing, faces, magicmap) reloadable at runtime.
- implement 64x64 faceset support.
- implement fxixsx protocol that saves a lot of bandwidth over the old image/face/smooth packets and allows images > packetsize, incremental and background transfers.
- implement a bandwidth-saving smoothing protocol that works on a face basis as opposed to a mapspace basis.
- the server can now rate-limit image uploads to not exceed a certain (client-configurable) speed while guarenteeing full freedom of movement.
- implement new ex command to request item descriptions.
- implement new msg command for in-game messages with meta information (using xml).
- enforce utf-8 for all text messages.
- added micropather (not used yet).
- many, many bugfixes.

Community Content Management project consists of a light-weight CMS, designed for communities.
Community Content Management is a light-weight CMS, which is designed for small communities, such as churches, schools, and neighborhood watch groups.
It allows someone with relatively little knowledge of the Internet to publish news stories and events. It sets archive/publishing dates, allowing groups to write press releases/articles about events before they happen.
Its output conforms to XHTML 1.0 and uses CSS 2, and its configuration comprises one file, which sets the site title, database, host, and meta tags.
Enhancements:
- Login - code changed so correct variables are passed to login script :)
- Search - Search Engine Added
- Articles - new lines (n) are replaced with "
" instead of " "

CFPlus is a modern client for Crossfire+ and Crossfire MMORPG game servers.
It offers a large map, an elaborate menu and help system, dialog-based character setup, and an innovative command completer and macros, and supports all CF+ extensions: dialog-based NPC interaction, enhanced map protocol (health and dialogue information), and the graphical minimap.
It is based on Perl, SDL, and OpenGL for high performance on modern systems, and works on both Unix and Windows. Ports to other platforms should be very easy and are underway.
Main features:
- Death is not permanent, and you can get back all lost stats and experience by playing a game in a special place named Nimbus. You are teleported there when you die and you have to play a game (currently minesweeper) to get out.
- Friendly fire is disabled and playerkilling is also modified. You can only kill another player when you and the other player are hostile. To become hostile, you have to visit the church of Gorokh in Scorn and talk to the priest. To become peaceful again, visit the curch of Valriel and talk to its priest.
- Invitation of other players to where you are is possible with the invite command. You have to solve the invitor quest (see below in maps) to be able to use the command.
- You can follow other players with the follow command when you stand next to the player you want to follow.
- Pet monsters and summoned creatures will not stand in the way of other party members, making it bearable to play with summoning skills in a party.
- Map and graphics artists are working on improved graphics and new maps and quests.
- A new currency: the Royalty. Its worth 100 Platinum and is made of paper. (The bank script was completly rewritten in Perl)
- The communication commands have been rewritten in Perl and an ignore command was added.
- Trade shops have been implemented in Perl, which allows the player to trade items when they are offline.

Son of Service (SOS) is a multiuser volunteer management database for non-profits, charities, schools, churches, and clubs. SOS will keep track of your volunteers, their contact information, availability, work history, comments, reminders, and relationships.

It will help you quickly find the right volunteer for the job and e-mail him, and it will make reports about how you are using volunteers.

SOS is a helpful tool for organizations with many volunteers or multiple volunteer coordinators.

Your organization helps people for free, and your volunteers work for free. So you know there is a "free lunch."

SOS is free. Its free from charge: notice there is no menu option for purchasing or ordering. But SOS also provides freedom from many restrictions. Download the program, install it, and use it without buying expensive licenses.

Use it on as many systems with as many users and volunteers as you have. Use your choice of server operating system and RDBMS. (You dont need to buy a RDBMS or other server software.) You can even modify SOS to meet your specific needs because the full source is available to you.

Gcal is a program for calculating and printing calendars. It displays hybrid and proleptic Julian and Gregorian calendar sheets, respectively for one month, three months, or a whole year.
It also displays eternal holiday lists for many countries around the globe, and features a very powerful creation of fixed date liststhat can be used for reminding purposes. Gcal can calculate various astronomical data and times of the Sun and the Moon for pleasure at any location, precisely enough for most civil purposes.
Gcal supports some other calendar systems, for example, the Chinese and Japanese calendars, the Hebrew calendar, and the civil Islamic calendar, too.
English user manual included; German user manual included.
Main features:
- Some special calendar sheet formats.
- Calendar sheets can be provided with week numbers.
- Variable number of year calendar sheet blocks.
- Adjustable ordering of displayed dates.
- Adjustable period of Gregorian Reformation.
- Proleptic Julian and Gregorian calendars.
- Adjustable highlighting of holidays and actual day.
- Variable starting day of week.
- Output of day-of-year numbers and concatenated day and day-of-year numbers.
- Allows user-defined ordering of the date elements.
- Output of fiscal years.
- Output of lists or ranges of months or years.
- Sorted output of selectable country/territory specific eternal holiday lists (mostly complete) for nearly *all* countries around the globe, which are generated automatically.
- Sorted output of Christian Western churches calendar holidays, Orthodox Christian Eastern churches old and new calendar holidays, Hebrew calendar holidays, Islamic civil calendar holidays (since AD 622), Persian "Jalaali" calendar holidays, Chinese and Japanese calendar holidays (since AD 1645), more "other" calendar system holidays, multicultural New Years Days, and start of "other" calendar system months, which are also generated automatically.
- Sorted output of fixed date lists which can be defined and created in a highly flexible manner.
- Allows filtration of fixed dates by using regular expressions and other built-in methods.
- Allows the use of date and text variables and basic operations on them.
- Some gimmicks like solar and lunar eclipse time, sunrise/sunset plus a lot of other Sun based data and times, Moon phase, Full and New Moon time, moonrise/moonset plus a lot of other Moon based data and times, zodiacal markers, equinox and solstice, air line distance between two geographic point locations plus course angles, biorhythm et cetera...
- Fixed dates can be stored in several files.
- Nearly unlimited nesting level of include files.
- Nearly unlimited internal text and table lengths.
- Default options can be stored in the `GCAL environment variable.
- Options and commands stored in response files can be preloaded.
- Uses either an external pager or a simple built-in pager.
- Detailed Texinfo reference manual.
- German, English and American program version by default.
- Supports various computer platforms.
- GNU `gettext internationalization technology, which allows the use of message catalogs for most native languages.
- GNU `autoconf(iguration) installation technology.
- Supports both UN*X short-style options and GNU long-style options.