At the YWAM Centre I last worked at it was always an interesting conversation when it came to filtering the Internet. On one hand we are blocking the Internet, stopping people from free access and controlling them. On the other hand we are protecting them from all sorts of junk that is out there, and can possibly cause our brothers and sisters to stumble.

This is my fourth attempt writing this post, my computer has crashed all three other times …

I’ll be honest, when we lost all of the old YWAM IT site last year due to hosting / billing problems I became extremely discouraged and lost my motivation. This has resulted in the site you see today, one that is pretty dead and needing a lot of help. The last site started out being driven by myself, but very quickly a community developed, which is what brought life to the old site.

That community is what I would like to build here again.

Originally Posted on 26/06/2007 by Kevin Colyer

I was reading the Crit 07 report and was interested by the part about proposing an IT Symposium "a gathering of IT specialists that can come together and work on a common project – an IT project/infrastructure that will serve the mission as a whole".

Originally Posted on 18/06/2007 by Alex Costa

Hey! I've been testing some OpenSource and Free software for using with Videoconferencing equipment and I was wondering if someone here have tested, tried or successfully used any of the following software.

Xmeeting - for Mac computers

Ekiga - Formerly known as Gnome Meeting ( for Linux and has a beta for Windows)

Originally posted on 06/06/2007 by Sindre Vaernes

I think I vaguely remember when the service first started, but I did not pay much attention. Now I just read an article where Deutsche Telekom has made an investment in this company, so maybe there is something to it after all. I signed up but haven't really been able to test anything yet.

They are supposed to offer some competition with Skype, etc. Following is an excerpt from the news article I read:

Well, after a much too long hiatus we are finally working on the relaunch of YWAM IT. We've launched it on a new domain, with a new theme, and hopefully we will see some exciting things happen with the site over the next years.