Re: [sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

2009-07-27 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there ... Jonathan Marsden wrote: If ten CrossWire people kicked in $1000 each (or twenty people @ $500 each), and if (a big if?) there was a reasonable expectation of selling 500 NIV modules within a year or two, it would be doable. Well, I for one would go for this. Suggest setting

Re: [sword-devel] Bisaya-Inunhan New Testament (Philippines)

2009-07-27 Thread David Haslam
My concern is that the SWORD module should faithfully represent all the features of the published translation, inasmuch as this is feasible. The translator (Eldon Leano Talamisan) is originally from Tablas Island. The language is described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onhan_language I hav

Re: [sword-devel] Bisaya-Inunhan New Testament (Philippines)

2009-07-27 Thread David Haslam
I have sent a private reply to you Greg. David Greg Hellings wrote: > > What was his problem? > > --Greg > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bisaya-Inunhan-New-Testament-%28Philippines%29-tp23258810p24676682.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabb

Re: [sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

2009-07-27 Thread David Haslam
"Why, oh why?" In a word, Marketing! The NIV was very effectively marketed by the publishers. As a result, many evangelical churches bought into the NIV, and have it as their pew Bibles. As an evangelical myself, I am not "over the moon" about this, because it put a substantial section of th

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire wiki database error - Recent changes page

2009-07-27 Thread David Haslam
This wiki problem is not yet solved. David David Haslam wrote: > > When I just tried to access > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges > http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges > > it gave this result > > Database error > From CrossWire Bible Society > Jump to: n

Re: [sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

2009-07-27 Thread Brian J. Dumont
Barry Drake wrote: > > Now - a rant - I see it as a great pity that so many people want the > NIV. As a theologian, I never recommend this translation to my > students as it has a party bias. The entire translation team is from > the evangelical school. The Good News (TEV) and the NRSV are two

Re: [sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > Jonathan Morgan wrote: > >>> On May 10th, 2007, he reported having got a reply to the effect that >>> "the NIV costs US$10,000 to license and then US$10 per copy. There is also a >>> rather detailed approval process." > ... >> I remember t

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire wiki database error - Recent changes page

2009-07-27 Thread David Haslam
Further information This URL gives a page not found error http://crosswire.org/wiki/Special:Tags http://crosswire.org/wiki/Special:Tags Listed as Valid change tags under Recent changes and logs in http://crosswire.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages http://crosswire.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire wiki database error - Recent changes page

2009-07-27 Thread DM Smith
David, It is now back up. (Many thanks to Jonathan Marsden for his help!) The problem was that each time mediawiki software is updated on the box, the wiki breaks in a different way. The solution generally is to backup and run a provided script to upgrade the wiki database. We are working on

Re: [sword-devel] CrossWire wiki database error - Recent changes page

2009-07-27 Thread David Haslam
Thanks to both of you for speedy response. -- David DM Smith-5 wrote: > > David, > It is now back up. (Many thanks to Jonathan Marsden for his help!) > > The problem was that each time mediawiki software is updated on the box, > the wiki breaks in a different way. The solution generally is to

[sword-devel] mvnForum upgrade

2009-07-27 Thread Manfred Bergmann
Hi. mvnForum has seen quite many bugfixes and improvements. We are running a fairly old version (from 2003). I'd like to look into upgrading our version if I may. God bless, Manfred ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://

Re: [sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

2009-07-27 Thread Jónatas Ferreira
Em 2009/07/27, às 13:59, sword-devel-requ...@crosswire.org escreveu: It doesn't seem all that impossible. At those prices, mental math says the breakeven is 500 copies. You just need the $1 up front. If ten CrossWire people kicked in $1000 each (or twenty people @ $500 each), and if (a

Re: [sword-devel] Often-requested yet never-available Bibles

2009-07-27 Thread Jonathan Morgan
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Jónatas Ferreira wrote: > > Em 2009/07/27, às 13:59, sword-devel-requ...@crosswire.org escreveu: > >> It doesn't seem all that impossible.  At those prices, mental math says >> the breakeven is 500 copies.  You just need the $1 up front. >> >> If ten CrossWire p