Last Friday, Jason Powell hosted Episode 2 of Church IT Discussions (you can download or listen to the discussion online) on TalkShoe. Here are a few notes on what we discussed (please feel free to add or correct).

First, you may need the lastest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for the Talkshoe Live Client, although their FAQ sates that the JRE is distributed and packaged with the PC Version of the TalkShoe Live Client. The JRE for Macs can be downloaded from the Apple website.

Pre-call highlights:
North Point Community Church has a cool AV mini server room setup
Seem like no one is connected to the discussion via Skype this week.

Participants: (I am sure I missed a lot, comment and I’ll update the list)
Jason PowellGranger Community Church – Granger, IN
Andrew MitrySt. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church – Fairfax, VA
Dave StoneBethel Church – Richland, WA
NickCentral Christian Church of the East Valley – Meza, AZ
Trace PupkeSeacoast Church – Mount Pleasant, SC
Derek Berg – Woodland Baptist Church, Bradenton, FL
William – Calvary Chapel – Newport News, VA
David RussellNational Community Church – Washington, DC
Tony DyePerimeter Church, Duluth, GA

cool or new tools / discoveries:
Jason Powell – groupbar
Opera Browser – Restore Session with all tabs, no memory leaks like Firefox
doesn’t work well with F1
On FireFox, Control + Tab gets you between tabs within a browser

nairdo – Wink is a good tool creakting screencasts/tutorials

dtstone – portableapps.com/apps
Side discussion on USB Drive use on site

jkergosi – esword
wbcderek – ebible.com, xpound.org

Spam – TonyDye
tonydye – Barracuda – hardware device
jason powell – Postini.com – hosted service
ryancl – Ciphertrust Ironmail
Tony Dye brings up a good point about aliasing spam in exchange to forward to vendor spam email.
jeffrey – SpamAssassin linux box
chris257 – Katharion $.42 per box 1/4 cost of Postini for non-profits
Jason mentions mxlogic
GCC blocks all traffic on port 25, only allowing Postini servers to connect
NCC also on postini
Perimeter sends ndr on spam
wphelps – spamstopshere

Houston – Spring 2007 Church IT Roundtable

Roundtable Notes

jeffrey – itdiscuss.org – rss feeds

Next episode – 01/05/07 02:00 PM EST

Post call – highlights:
Northpoints Xsan can scale to 40 terabytes