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.. title: Where are all the OpenLP users?
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.. slug: 2010/02/02/where-are-all-the-openlp-
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.. date: 2010-02-02 13:02:57 UTC
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.. description:
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A few days ago, sjpslabbert asked the question in a forum post how many
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people are using OpenLP? As I said in the reply, it's close to
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impossible to answer that question. All we know is that we average 100
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downloads a day, there were over 16000 downloads of version 1.0.1, this
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site has over 2500 registered users and we are approaching 200 fans on
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facebook.
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What we don't know is how many of those downloads are new users who go
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on to use OpenLP regularly.
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So I thought perhaps we could add a page to our wiki where users could
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add their church, if using OpenLP. However since the wiki is currently
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focused towards v2.0 development it wasn't really appropriate. Also as
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good as a list is (e.g. see Drupal's) it needs to be maintained and not
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everyone knows their alphabet. I know this from my churches pre-OpenLP
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days trying to keep our large box of OHP transparencies in order!
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So then I wondered if we could use google maps. I had seen the map of
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OpenLP developers locations on launchpad and investigated doing the same
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for OpenLP users.
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The keen eyed among you will have spotted the **Worldwide Usage** on the
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left hand menu. If you a regular OpenLP user, or hope to be, it would be
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great if you log into your Google account, head over to the map, click
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the edit button. Then just drag a placemarker to your churches location
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(you might want to zoom in a bit) and put a little comment with the name
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of your church and how you use it.
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Over time this will then give us an idea of where the regular users are
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and perhaps might even help us know which translations or culture
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specific features will benefit the most people.
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*And whilst I'm blogging*... As some of you know, I maintain a few
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utilities to help do a few things with openlp which are not currently
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built in. You'll be pleased to know that the 2.0 team are doing a good
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job at incorporating some of this functionality into the new version.
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However a new budding utilityist has wandered onto our shores, cowjam.
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He has written a web-based OpenSong converter, which I'm sure will be
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easier to use than mine and helps add functionality to the opensong
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importer built into 1.2. If you have need to import opensong songs or
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bibles, please check it out.
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