Re: [Ldsoss] Wednesday 3:00 PM mt: FamilySearch API Overview

2007-11-07 Thread Jay Askren
It does appear that the agenda is different today. It must be different material. Jay On Nov 7, 2007 11:42 AM, Jared Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/7/07, Ash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is today groundhog day? > > I don't know, but I'd still like an answer as to whether or not the

Re: [Ldsoss] Fwd: TODAY 3:00 PM mt: Introduction to FamilySearch DevelopersServices and Affiliate Program

2007-11-07 Thread Jay Askren
Unfortunately, I didn't see this announcement until it was too late. Is the video online or at least can I read somewhere about it some where? Jay On Nov 6, 2007 11:52 AM, Gordon Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Developers, > > Please call in and hook-up with our web conference today

Re: [Ldsoss] Geneology questions

2007-09-23 Thread Jay Askren
> That's precisely my own observation. I've done a few Google searches > only to find that nothing new seems to be happening with any standard. > It seems a shame that one of the most popular web topics and xml have > not really gone anywhere after all this time. Makes me want to start > somethin

Re: [Ldsoss] Geneology questions

2007-09-23 Thread Jay Askren
As far as gedcom 6 goes, It's been around for ever and nothing has happened with it. There are other competitors to gedcom 6. As far as I know none of xml competitors to gedcom 5.5 have been adopted by the main stream. Various open source programs do have the ability to import/export some of the

Re: [Ldsoss] Automatic Update in Java

2007-09-04 Thread Jay Askren
em > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.manorrock.org/ > Founding Java Champion > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Askren > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 9:09 AM > To: LDS Open Source Software > Subject:

Re: [Ldsoss] Automatic Update in Java

2007-09-04 Thread Jay Askren
I've also thought about using the Eclipse RCP. Eclipse RCP can be nice but it can be a real pain at times too. Writing my own doesn't sound bad at all. Thanks. Jay On 9/4/07, Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 08:30:09 am Jay Askren wro

Re: [Ldsoss] Automatic Update in Java

2007-09-04 Thread Jay Askren
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[Ldsoss] Automatic Update in Java

2007-09-04 Thread Jay Askren
I'm working on an open source project in which I want to make updating the application very easy. For instance Firefox automatically updates itself when there is an update. MLS from the church does the same thing. I want to do this with my own Java application. Does anyone know of an open sourc

Re: [Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

2007-08-20 Thread Jay Askren
, at some point there has to be two different people who are > very close to each other, but ended up being interviewed by different > census takers and so are many pages apart. > > On 8/20/07, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For this application, as was stated,

Re: [Ldsoss] Alternate way of searching genealogy...

2007-08-20 Thread Jay Askren
For this application, as was stated, it's probably not vital to know the exact latitude, longitude, since distance in pages in the census should be good enough. Because of the way the census is taken, two families on the same page or on consecutive pages and in the same township are close together

Re: [Ldsoss] Re: HT and VT Tool

2007-05-22 Thread Jay Askren
In the CSV export from MLS, there is also a unique identifier created by MLS for both the family and for the individuals. I used this as my key in my Emergency Preparedness Program. Does anyone know how stable these columns are? I use it to tell if someone is new to the ward when an update happ

[Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness

2007-03-04 Thread Jay Askren
I finally released a new version of my Emergency Preparedness Software which supports maps. http://jay.askren.net/emergency/ It imports data from MLS and will allow the user to store information about ward members which may be useful in an emergency. You can see where everyone lives on the map.

Re: [Ldsoss] Ward mapping application

2007-01-26 Thread Jay Askren
d it in and I'll take it to the correct department and show it. Tom >>> On 1/26/2007 at 11:02 AM, in message < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jesse Stay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/26/07, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on an email list for

[Ldsoss] Ward mapping application

2007-01-26 Thread Jay Askren
I'm on an email list for ward clerks, and there's been quite a bit of chatter about the following web site: http://wardmap.theballfamily.org/intro.asp I don't know if it is open source but I bring it up because it appears to be a really cool application, but the same issues are being asked about

Re: [Ldsoss] Meetup at Crown Burger before Tech Talk Jan 18th 5pm

2007-01-23 Thread Jay Askren
Is there an ETA on when these pod casts might be ready? On 1/18/07, Tom Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've confirmed that we are recording some of the events and will be posting them as pod casts. I'll announce on this list once they are ready. Tom Tom Welch wrote: > I believe that most s

[Ldsoss] Laslo vs Flex vs GWT vs ?

2007-01-05 Thread Jay Askren
* I know there are a lot of web developers out there. I'm looking into the various AJAX frameworks out there and was wondering if someone could give me a run down of the advantages/disadvantages of the various frameworks. I know of Laslo, Flex, and GWT. I believe these are all major players in

Re: [Ldsoss] Fwd: LDSOSS Tech Talk announcement

2007-01-04 Thread Jay Askren
Not living in Utah, I won't be able to make it to this event. I would be very greatful if someone wanted to take notes and send their notes to the list. Jay On 1/3/07, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I received the below personal invite for everyone on the list for those interested (I

Re: [Ldsoss] Internet Filter

2007-01-03 Thread Jay Askren
t easy to get around the filter, I'd be interested in hearing how to do that. Thanks for the other suggestions. I'm going to look into those. Jay On 1/2/07, Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:26, Jay Askren wrote: > Does anyone know o

[Ldsoss] Internet Filter

2007-01-02 Thread Jay Askren
Does anyone know of a good internet filter for linux? I do know about Dan's Guardian(http://dansguardian.org/) which is a good server filter, but I'm looking for a client side filter. Jay ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ld

Re: [Ldsoss] Interesting O'Reilly post on genealogy

2006-12-27 Thread Jay Askren
What do you know? Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.mapyourancestors.com/ On 12/22/06, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: About a year and a half ago when I was in graduate school, a classmate and I came to the same conclusion about the geography and timeline functionality men

Re: [Ldsoss] Interesting O'Reilly post on genealogy

2006-12-22 Thread Jay Askren
About a year and a half ago when I was in graduate school, a classmate and I came to the same conclusion about the geography and timeline functionality mentioned in the blog. I've been wanting to work on such an open source project, but unfortunately there are only 24 hours in a day and I haven't

Re: [Ldsoss] Automating Genealogy Research

2006-11-03 Thread Jay Askren
I would have to disagree about this not being a computer science problem.  Computers can't solve the problem for sure, but they can take us farther than we are now.  Our company focuses on Artificial Intelligence research and my background is in Computational Linguistics or in other words Natural L

Re: [Ldsoss] Wireless Networks in Church Buildings

2006-11-03 Thread Jay Askren
About two years ago or so, we got a similar setup in one of our little branch's family history center in Indiana.  I was the stake computer specialist at the time and one day I got a phone call from the family history center saying that there was new computer, and they had no idea where it came fro

Re: [Ldsoss] Non-Web Application Frameworks

2006-11-02 Thread Jay Askren
Paul, I agree with you 100%.  That's exactly the model I'm using on my application and that's really what I was trying to say.  I don't know that I would call it a limux model since lots of applications use it.   I should also say to that I'm not arguing against web application, for Mitch's applica

Re: [Ldsoss] Non-Web Application Frameworks

2006-11-02 Thread Jay Askren
There are still many advantages to client apps.  Even though the internet has boomed, not everyone has access to the internet every minute of the day and if I have my laptop with me, I would like to be able to use some applications even though I might not have access to the internet.  Sure, I could

Re: [Ldsoss] Non-Web Application Frameworks

2006-10-31 Thread Jay Askren
At work, I'm using the Eclipse RCP, and unfortunately, not only is it a huge learning curve, but good up to date documentation is somewhat scarce.  For a small app, it's much easier to just write it in Swing.    In addition to the ones you mentioned, I believe Netbeans also has an RCP framework, t

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a "Respect Copyrights" activity badge

2006-10-25 Thread Jay Askren
Maybe we need to have someone create another mailing list covering intellectual property, copyright law, and what is legal and what is not.  This topic seems to come up a lot, and I it seems that people really like to argue about it.  It would be nice if these arguments would move to another list s

Re: [Ldsoss] Software for people who can't use MLS?

2006-09-08 Thread Jay Askren
er than minister TO the branch. As many little quirks as MLS mayhave that we discuss on this list, some people don't even have MLS touse to support their branch. I was hoping someone on the list might have gone through that and come up with a good solution.On 9/8/06, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Ldsoss] Software for people who can't use MLS?

2006-09-08 Thread Jay Askren
I would think the church would have something worked out.  Why doesn't he just call church headquarters and see what everyone else is using?   I thought other countries were using the old MIS and FIS.  Jay   On 9/6/06, Slide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any software packages anyone could re

Re: [Ldsoss] AntiAlias Java

2006-08-25 Thread Jay Askren
I tried your code on version of 1.5_04 of java and it didn't work.  SwingUtilities2 is not mentioned in the javadocs for Java 1.5, so I looked at the code for SwingUtilities2 source code, and it appears that SwingUtilities2 is not stable, and the the comments said to not rely on the class.   I did

[Ldsoss] PAF File Format

2006-08-02 Thread Jay Askren
Does anyone know how one would get a hold of the PAF file format?  There are several programs which work with it so it must be available some how.   Jay   ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss

Re: [Ldsoss] New Member Checklist

2006-07-31 Thread Jay Askren
The export functionality exports to a CSV format.  It works pretty well.  For Emergency Preparedness, we export the data to CSV and then import it in to our application.     On 7/30/06, Bill Pringle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been asked by the Stake to look into some way to exportinformation

[Ldsoss] LDS OSS Framework

2006-07-24 Thread Jay Askren
There was quite a bit of talk about the Scouting open source software.  The Emergency Preparedness project I'm working on has many of the same issues:   http://jay.askren.net/emergency/     For our users, sometimes they may be online other times they may not be.  I chose not to create a web applica

Re: [Ldsoss] I don't know if this has a software solution or not...

2006-06-23 Thread Jay Askren
As a computatoinal Linguist, I can speak to this.  It should be possible using modern algorithms and techniques to divide the results of a search engine into articles for Joseph Smith, articles against Joseph Smith and articles neutral to Joseph Smith with reasonable accuracy. There's been a bit o

[Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Database

2006-04-26 Thread Jay Askren
I have an alpha version of the Emergency Preparedness database if any one is interested in trying it out: http://jay.askren.net/emergency/     You can import your ward's data from MLS.  Just use MLS to export to a CSV file and then import into the program.  Because not everyone has access to MLS, I

[Ldsoss] Re: Calendar Import

2006-04-22 Thread Jay Askren
There's no reason the import functionality would have to bypass the approval process. A user could import several calendar items and the website administrator could still approve it. But of course until that feature is added, everyone in the ward has Privileges to add things to the calendar, so s

Re: [Ldsoss] Dare I say it ... patents ...

2006-04-13 Thread Jay Askren
Of course if we had a software patent in an area where we were planning to do more work, giving the patent away would mean we could no longer use our idea which would make us dislike patents even more.  So it doesn't seem like this would be a good idea if we had a patent that came from our open sou

Re: [Ldsoss] Mapping on lds.org

2006-04-10 Thread Jay Askren
First, I want to say the website is very cool.  Unfortunately, when I forwarded it on to some of our church leaders, I got a response that caught me a bit off guard.  A member of our bishopric was very hesitant to put his username and password to a non church sponsored website.  The more I think ab

Re: [Ldsoss] Archiving Our Electronic Lives

2006-04-07 Thread Jay Askren
I think it would be interesting if we could compile a list of where every one is living?  People who live close together may want to meet as well.  Along with that, it would probably be good to have a summary of people's interests as well.     On 4/7/06, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This

Re: [Ldsoss] Feedback request

2006-02-10 Thread Jay Askren
I have to apologize to everyone.  There have been several occasions that I've meant to send an email to an individual and have sent it to the entire list.  I'm still getting used to my gmail.  I'll try to do better.  Most of you can just ignore my last email.   Jay   __

Re: [Ldsoss] Feedback request

2006-02-10 Thread Jay Askren
DF.  These are great resources, but quite difficult to find.  Here's one example: http://delgensoc.org/dgsproj.html   Anyhow, thanks for all the work you've put into this website. Jay Askren   On 2/10/06, Dallan Quass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I just launched a website for g

Re: [Ldsoss] Suggestions for web site

2006-02-09 Thread Jay Askren
Bill's email mentioned some libraries in Java to parse Word Documents. I'm thinking about writing a genealogy search engine in the future, and that would come in handy. Does anyone have a link to the specific project on source forge? I searched source forge and all I could find was a library

Re: [Ldsoss] Leadership Directory

2006-02-08 Thread Jay Askren
Of course with all of these feature requests everyone is making, Pete may run away from this list screaming and never come back.  :)   Jay   On 2/8/06, Aaron Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I might piggyback a little here, for the Other category for our stake online leadership directory, there

Re: [Ldsoss] Leadership Directory

2006-02-08 Thread Jay Askren
It would also be nice if I could update my email address and preferred name online and MLS would get updated from that.   Jay   On 2/8/06, Richard Pyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Add to that preferred names and email addresses. People simplywill not take the time to keep them current. --RichardOn 8

Re: [Ldsoss] Wholesome Entertainment: Checkers

2006-02-06 Thread Jay Askren
When I'm ready to tackle it, I would need access to your source code, but like I said before, there's no hurry. On 2/4/06, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just updated the "Wholesome Entertainment" page( http://ldsoss.org/index.php/Wholesome_Entertainment) with a link tomy open-source implement

Re: [Ldsoss] Stake/Ward Web Site Utilities

2006-01-27 Thread Jay Askren
I wonder if you could call the church support number for ward and stake clerks and ask them.  Even if they can't answer your question maybe they can get you in touch with the right people.     A buddy of mine and I wrote a search engine for the church magazines and we asked permission from the chur

Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-11 Thread Jay Askren
These two go together: I don't think the church would be okay with youpulling all of that very confidential information (birthdates and membership numbers?) out of MLS and into some other system. I also don'tsee how membership numbers help in an emergency preparedness system.Birthdates are unders

Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Askren
I'm trying to set up the mapping files.  I've got several many to many mappings.  One in particular includes needs of families.  Needs include having an elderly person in the home, not having transportation, or having small children for instance.  I have a table to store family information(family_t

Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Askren
So, I just sent an email to the list with a link with more information about the app.  That should give you a better idea of what I'm creating.  Let me know if you would find it useful in your ward.  I hope to have the data entry part done in Februrary or so.   Jay  On 1/10/06, Jeff Raymond <[EMAI

[Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Askren
I sent an email the other day about software I'm creating for my ward.  I created a little web page so you can get an idea of what it will do and look like:   http://jay.askren.net/emergency/   Also, if there are any Java developers out there who have used Hibernate, I would be interested in talkin

Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Askren
ting it to Java.  If it's something that your ward would like to use, let me know.  I hope to get done with the data entry part some time in Februrary.     Jay       On 1/10/06, Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/9/06, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> In ou

Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Askren
Well, thanks for the encouragement.  :)  I can send you more details on what I have planned.  I'll try to do that tonight. What Stake are you in?     Jay  On 1/10/06, Jeff Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We were just talking about this in our welfare meeting.  We were trying to deciding what t

[Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-09 Thread Jay Askren
In our ward I've been asked to put together a little database to store Emergency Preparedness information such as who has a truck, who has a generator, who knows CPR or First Aid, etc.  It will be a Java application and import data directly from MLS.  I was wondering if this application would be us