Conmergence

2008 Fiber To The Home Conference & Expo September 21 - 25, 2008 Gaylord Opryland® Resort & Convention Center, Nashville, TN

<ed.note>The conference's theme is "Linking Communities at the Speed of Light" but more intriguing to me is the the scheduled appearance of Don Tapscott (The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business, Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs, Creating Value in the Networked Economy, Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business, Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation, The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence, Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World, Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology)  adreessing his latest work, Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Implicit in Tapscott's writings is management's buy-in of the distrubuted digital enterprise-enabled results-only collaborative work environment. If you happen to be one of those creatures (especially if you are from Nashville), I invite you to join the Linkedin.com Project Net-Work group and Technology Nashville.</ed.note>

Sunday, September 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Registration Opens
Monday, September 22, 2008
7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Registration Opens
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Developer Panel Workshop  *Additional fee*
8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Home Networking Workshop  *Additional fee*
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.	Track Session - Series 100  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.	FTTH Executive Summit *By invitation only* Moderated by: Don Tapscott, Author
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.	Track Session Series 200  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.	EXPO Grand Opening & Opening Reception *Open to all registered attendees*
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Registration Opens
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Opening General Session    *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only* Keynote Speaker - Don Tapscott, Author Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sponsored by: FTTH Council Awards Sponsored by: FTTxcellence Awards Sponsored by:
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	Refreshment Break    *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.	Global Carrier Keynote Panel   *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.	EXPO Hall Opens   *Open to all registered attendees*
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.	Luncheon in EXPO Hall  *Open to all registered attendees*
3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.	ITCo Panel  *Conference Pass attendees only*
3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Track Session Series 300  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.	Track Session Series 400   *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.	Track Session Series 500   *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.	International attendee Reception   *By invitation only*
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Registration Open
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Government and Regulatory Panel
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.	Track Session Series 600  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.	Track Session Series 700  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Refreshment Break  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Track Session Series 800  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 a.m.	Panel Session Series 900  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	On Own for Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	EXPO Hall Opens
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.	Closing General Session with Keynote Speaker  *Conference Pass and Day Pass attendees only*
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.	EXTRAVAGANZA - Closing Reception with Entertainment *Additional fee* "Don't forget your dancing boots!"
Thursday, September 25, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.	Post Conference Workshops

Project MedSend Nashville Host Committee Announces Informational Dinner, February 28, 2008

Traci Warner writes:

On behalf of the Nashville Host Committee for Project MedSend, we would like to invite you and your missions-minded friends to be our guests for dinner and an exciting account of God's strategy to bring the gospel of Christ, by medical missionaries, to those in other cultures. Your attendance at this dinner will help to increase the awareness of health professionals, students and churches in the Nashville community of ways to serve the Lord free of the burden of their educational indebtedness. You will enjoy a complimentary dinner held on Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hillwood Country Club in Nashville 6201 Hickory Valley Road (615) 352-6591.

Dr. Tracy Goen will tell how God has used him and his wife, Patty, a pediatrician, to bring the gospel to a settlement of Fulani cattle herders in Southwest Nigeria. A series of miraculous cures -- the result of much prayer and divinely directed medical interventions -- has opened the hearts of these people to the good news of Jesus Christ.

Randy Carey, Midwest Regional Director of Project MedSend, will bring you up-to-date on the role of the project in freeing medical missionaries for service by service by removing the major barrier they face -- the high cost of education for health professionals and resulting educational loans. To date, 329 physicians, dentists, nurses, physicians assistants and veterinarians have been freed to serve the underserved years earlier than they had dreamed possible.

We hope you can join us for what has proved to be a delightful evening for people across the country. Please RSVP by Monday, February 25th with your name, phone number, and the number in your party to: Ms. Traci Warner (615) 243-7529 (you may leave a message on the answering machine), psalm6201@yahoo.com 

Directions from downtown Nashville: South on Broadway to West End Avenue which turns into Harding Road at St. Thomas Hospital. Beyond St. Thomas Hospital will be the intersection of Woodmont Blvd. (left) and White Bridge Rd. (right) At the 4th stop light after this intersection turn right onto Davidson Rd. Cross over the the railroad tracks and go approximately 8/10 of a mile beyond the 4-way stop at Post Rd. Turn right onto Hickory Valley Rd. Entrance to Hillwood Country Cluy is on the right at 6201.

"Expanding Africa’s Broadband Capacity", Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, 29-30 October 2007

Where: Kigali, Rwanda

Why: The main goal of the Summit is to help bring connectivity to Africa and promote "Connect Africa", a new partnership that seeks to expand the information and communication technology infrastructure of the continent, especially Internet broadband.

Who: Some 500 participants are expected to attend the Connect Africa Summit. Participants include the patrons of the initiative, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Ghana’s President John Kufuor, who is also the African Union Chairman. High-level participants include International Telecommunication Union Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré; President of the African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka; and Intel Corporation Chairman Craig Barrett, who is also the Chair of the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development. Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, will make a contribution by video link. The Presidents of several African nations are expected to participate.

The event will bring together political leaders, including Ministers and Heads of State, CEOs and senior executives of global and African IT companies, leaders from civil society and heads of international and regional development banks. Industry leaders including Cisco, GSM Association, Ericsson, Huawei, British Telecom, Qualcomm, NTT DoCoMo, Neustar, Safaricom, Nokia-Siemens and Microsoft will attend and announce new initiatives to help bring connectivity to Africa.

The Summit sessions are designed for television to encourage interactive participation and key sessions will be moderated by Stephen Cole, a renowned TV anchor with Al Jazeera International. The event’s press conferences will be webcast live, and time slots for telephone interviews with prominent participants will be allocated for those journalists who cannot attend.

The event is organized by the International Telecommunication Union, the African Union, the World Bank Group and the Global Alliance for ICT and Development, in partnership with the African Development Bank, the African Telecommunication Union, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and the Global Digital Solidarity Fund.

For further information, click here or contact:

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Managing Virtual Distance - Driving Business Transformation through Distributed Work, November 14-16, 2007

The Disneyland Hotel • Anaheim, CA

THE One, THE Only Conference Focused on Strategies, Teams, Tools & Beyond in the Virtual Workplace
ANNOUNCING INAUGURAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGING VIRTUAL DISTANCE

• IDENTIFY, MANAGE & MEASURE virtual distance
• Break through language barriers & manage MULTI-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS
• Harness virtual KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
• Believe the unbelievable & witness the power of VIRTUAL WORLDS technology
• Transform business norms & cause cultural shifts in the way people work through SOCIAL NETWORKING
• Implement new millennium strategies that change the way we think about INNOVATION in a corporate context
• Manage, Train & Measure Productivity of the REMOTE EMPLOYEE
• Identify SECURITY CHALLENGES introduced by the transition into Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

To Register:
E-mail register@iirusa.com
Call 888.670.8200
Fax 941.365.2507 
Visit http://www.iirusa.com/virtual

The New World of Work
Daniel W. Rasmus
Director of Information Work Vision – MICROSOFT

Virtual Distance Under High-Stress
Honorable Jerry MacArthur Hultin
President – POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY & FORMER UNDER SECRETARY OF THE U.S. NAVY

Global Projects vs. Traditional Projects
Karan Sorensen
Chief Information Officer – JOHNSON & JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL R&D

Legal Issues & IP Protection
Michael S. Mensik
Partner – BAKER & MCKENZIE

Virtual Worlds Technology
Philip Rosedale
Founder & CEO – LINDEN LABS

Secrets of High-Performance Distributed Teams
Cynthia C. Froggatt
Author of “Work Naked: Eight Essential Principles for Peak Performance in the Virtual Workplace”

Leadership in the Digital Age
Charles H. House
Executive Director – STANFORD UNIVERSITY, MEDIA X LAB

A Perspective From Corporate Resources
Ann Bamesberger
Vice President of Open Work Services – SUN MICROSYSTEMS

More here.

Thinking Outside the Circle

Lyndsay Jacobs, Christian Churches NZ/Associated Churches of Christ in NZ, Uniting Congregations Partner Representative, in "The Wider Church - Number 7, July 2007 (Occasional news and updates prepared for Uniting Congregations in Aotearoa New Zealand with Christian Churches/Churches of Christ participation)" writes:

I am very encouraged by the way many union/cooperative churches are responding to their call to ministry and witness in this new century. But being effective parishes/congregations in this post modern, post denominational, post Christian, post Christendom era is a huge and constant challenge to us all.

IT IS A NEW WORLD. Like many others, I feel absolutely sure that trying to do what we've always done, but doing it better, JUST WON'T WORK. That is like looking through the wrong end of the telescope or trying to get ice cream into the cone through the bottom. It's coming at things from the wrong end. That's thinking 'Inside the Circle' - looking out from where we are. THE WORLD HAS CHANGED. We're not where we were anymore.

The first (and major, huge) step for any congregation wanting to be real in 21st Century New Zealand, is to understand today's community and HOW THE COMMUNITY SEES CHRISTIANITY and the CHURCH. We need to step outside our circles, see ourselves (our congregations) from the outside looking in. We need to think outside the circle.

I have prepared a one day or two evening discovery/action program for congregations which feel they're ready, like Abraham, to explore moving into a 'new country'. Let me know if you're game. ( Contact info: lyndsaylorrainejacobs at xtra.co.nz, PO Box 211, Kirwee 7543, New Zealand. Ph: +64 (0) 3 317-8011. Mobile: +64 021 424516 ),

Ministry as Open Source

<ed.note>There are several podcasts on the meme of of Ministry as Open Source over at Geeks and God. My assertion is that the true strength of open source is its transparent community collaboration.</ed.note>

The Wired Scholar: Five Free Tools You May Not Know About

Danny Zacharias

The Internet has radically changed how information is stored, researched, and published. Work that was once done in a file catalog and in the midst of towering book shelves can now be done with a few keystrokes on a computer. The ability not only to find information, but to store your own information for the benefit of others makes the Internet an exciting tool for academic research. At the same time, the Internet has also become a resource for free quality resources. The purpose of this article is to introduce Society of Biblical Literature Forum readers to five free online tools that can serve to enhance research and productivity.

Climate Savers Computing Initiative

<ed.note>In the meantime, of course, builders and computer vendors can begin deploying geothermal heat exchanger driven data centers. And we might all support the use of biosand water filters (portable potable) so there will actually be someone around to use those computers.</ed.note>

Believe it or not, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half the power delivered to it. Half! This wasted electricity unnecessarily increases the cost of powering a computer, and it also increases the emission of greenhouse gases. Improving the energy efficiency of computers is a cost-effective way to reduce electricity consumption and the emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. The Climate Savers Computing Initiative brings together industry, consumers and conservation organizations to significantly increase the energy efficiency of computers and servers.

Born Again in Second Life

"Give me that online religion", Virtual religious services are gaining in popularity - Online religious observance gains a foothold

May 21, By Don Teague, Correspondent, NBC Nightly News ( via MSNBC.com )

A new online virtual world called Second Life is also a new religious frontier where real-life churches, synagogues and mosques are trying to gain a foothold.

Cyberspace: New Frontier in Mission -- 8th Mission Lecture Series

If you’re a religious educator, or a CLE or CL teacher, or a college theology instructor/professor, or a formator,or any faith-based tech-savvy trekker and you can ‘dig’ terms such as: Friendster…YM…online chatting…ICQ…internet…MSN Messenger…e-mails…Chikka…website…blogging…texting …SMS… MMS…GPRS…WAP…wi-fi…PDA…tablet…iPod… Then the 8th Mission Lecture Series is for YOU!

But if you cannot decipher some of these lingoes, then there’s nothing else we could surely say other than: The 8th Mission Lecture Series is DEFINITELY for YOU!!!

Let us navigate the evolving 21st century cyberspace culture, which can leave us groping in understanding the internet generation our kids, students and formandis. The 8th Mission Lecture Series, however, will be more than just an ‘orientation’ to the fascinating world of instantaneous global communication. In its entirety, it is a wake-up call so that we can synchronize our religious road-maps and faith perspectives with contemporary developments and explore the possibilities of a combined CYBER-ian and CHRIST-ian existence.

A Good Friday for Post-Congregationalists

<ed.note>I listen to audiobooks when possible ( fwiw - I like audible.com, store.audiotech.com, summary.com, some others ). It is interesting to me that the two recurring themes that stand out for me in the business management meme are the importance of servant leadership in the C-Suite ( including the ability to put your ego and vision on the shelf when circumstances dictate that that it is prudent ) and listening to the consumer ( and actually spending money on aligning your business practices and processes { yes this means ACTUAL I.T. capex spending [ over airplanes, race cars and yachts ] and employee education, eg - requiring that every employ be both tech and biz savvy, usually involving the statistical data warehouse and open comments on public facing web properties }).

Bill Kinnon captures this same spirit as applied to the tradition ecclesiastical structural deafness in the land at his ongoing posts found here.

A personal aside and hypothesis: you might think that US denominations exist for theological reasons -- in fact, I would offer, it is to keep otherwise uninsurable ministers in affordable health insurance plans. Go ahead -- ask your minister/pastor/priest -- and then ask if anyone in the congregation can get the same deal. Then ask them why not.

Oh, and if you are wondering what I think the resolution to all this angst is going to be -- ( it's going to be a shocker coming from me ;-) -- apply the Pauline edification imperative ( I Cor. 14:3-4 ) -- via a globally distributed, open stance model -- as the default answer to every discussion ( as opposed to the rote "congregational meeting drivification for 30 minutes to discuss something that should have been wikied" response ). Start there...</ed.note>

Disability Education in Seminaries? Your Input Sought!

<ed.note>Over at the Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities web site I saw this:</ed.note>

How to tackle this situation is a question the subcommittee is now studying. Should there be a survey and assessment of current initiatives in seminaries? Would a series of cost-free summer institutes be helpful to provide training in state-of-the-art strategies for including issues related to pastoral and spiritual supports for people with disabilities in theological education and professional training? Would funding be available for such institutes? Would seminary professors appreciate and use disability-related modules in their courses if these were available? Do people in disability ministry need to do more to stimulate thought by presenting papers at professional conferences and submitting articles for national religious and educational journals? Here, too, the input of others is sought. Responses to the above questions may be sent to the CCPD office.

<ed.note>My response of course is to begin by hosting a wiki.</ed.note>

OpenPlans

Welcome to OpenPlans a free wiki-based community organizing and project management tool. OpenPlans, a site dedicated to helping communities organize virtually to effect real world change, is currently running a beta testing version of the software here.  The site will continue to evolve as we roll out bug fixes, new features, and enhanced functionality.

OpenPlans is wiki-based. This means that most pages are editable by members of the site. Membership is free and it takes just seconds to register. Once you log in, you may start your own project or contribute to an existing one. We hope you use OpenPlans to share information, coordinate tasks, and build momentum around your project.

OpenPlans is the work of The Open Planning Project (TOPP), a New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing citizen and public interest group participation in community planning processes through technology. TOPP imagines OpenPlans as a free, hosted, and shared suite of community organizing tools, and we look forward to providing you with an ever-increasing toolkit for getting things done.

We will soon be adding a user's guide. In the meantime, logged in users can visit our Sandbox project to experiment with using the system.  Once in the sandbox, click the "edit" tab to change the text and layout of the page.  You can link to existing pages in the project by enclosing the page title in double parenthesis.  You can also create new pages this way; if you enclose text that does not match an existing page title in double parenthesis, this text will become an "add link", which will create the new page when followed.

Let us know what you think using our contact form; we love and need your feedback and suggestions for improvement.

Thank you, The Open Planning Project

Using Wiki in Education

http://www.ikiw.org/

CMS and Wiki Directories

http://cmsmatrix.org/

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

http://www.wikimatrix.org/

Segue

Segue is an open source content management system designed for e-learning that combines the ease of use of course management systems with the flexibility of weblogs for creating various types of sites including course, news, journal, peer review and e-portfolio. When integrated into an institution's administrative systems, it can become a portal providing access to an indivual user's course and personal websites.

Segue is really a collaborative learning system. It has a granular permissions structure that allows site owners to assign individuals or groups to be collaborators and specify precisely what content block, page or section of the site they can view, discuss, add to, edit or delete from. Contrast this to e-learning systems such as WebCT or Blackboard in which faculty post the majority of a course's content with tools available only to them. With Segue, students can contribute as much as the instructor or more to a course website. In addition students can make their own websites that can be associated with a course website or can build a website for their own personal use such as a weblog or an e-portfolio.

Segue is based on a publishing model of content delivery which regards faculty not as course managers but as authors and/or editors and students as contributors/collaborators. Indeed, Segue encourages the publication of course work (where appropriate) and opens the classroom to the world community. At the same time, Segue allows for a site to become a personal workspace, where site owners can develop ideas in a private web-based environment accessible anywhere; or a community workspace, where individuals or groups can share ideas amongst only themselves.

Segue is browser-centric and relies on hyperlinks to provide both site navigation and organization. Built into its interface is a customizable three level navigational structure. This means that a given site can be organized into sections each of which can contain any number of pages. Pages in turn can contain any number of independent timestamped content blocks (text, images, file downloads). These content blocks can be sorted by recent first or recent last, or can be sorted by user's who added or edited them, sorted alphabetically or sorted by some custom ordering.

Segue is themeable. Content is completely separated from form. Users can customize the appearance of their site by choosing from a number of themes and adding custom headers and footers. Themes themselves have settings that can be altered resulting in well...variations of a theme.

Segue was first written under the name ('CoursesDB', then later 'SitesDB') during the summer of 2002 at Middlebury College.

Authors
Segue's principal authors are Gabriel Schine, Alex Chapin, Adam Franco and Dobo Radichkov.
Gabriel Schine is the lead programmer of Segue, a resident of Middlebury, Vermont, and a student at Kenyon College in Ohio.
Alex Chapin is the project manager of Segue and Middlebury College's Foreign Languages Educational Technology Specialist.
Adam Franco, programmer, employed by Middlebury College's Educational Technology Group.
Dobo Radichkov, Middlebury College student, Database Designer.

Contributors to Segue include:
Reinhold Lange, web programmer.

Special thanks to:
Middlebury College
Middlebury College Center for Educational Technology
Shel Sax, director of Educational Technology at Middlebury College.
Patricia Saldarriaga, Assistant Professor, Spanish, Middlebury College
Gloria Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Spanish, Middlebury College
Carole Cavanaugh, Associate Professor, Japanese, Middlebury College 

Elgg.org

<ed.note>I find it rather odd and strangely tragic that while "secular" colleges, universities, and education institutes of all stripes continue to adopt web-based open source, collaborative tools I have yet to correspond with one missionary who isn't resistant to their adoption. I'm cynical so I assume its just enlightened self-interest  on missionaries' parts -- eg, fear of job loss -- but I assume that over time missionary senders will get savvy to the more efficient ways to spend their social outreach and evangelistic dollars.</ed.note>

Elgg is a new breed of social software based around choice, flexibility and openness: a system that firmly places individuals at the centre of their activities. With the freedom to incorporate all of your favorite tools within one environment, Elgg allows you to showcase your content with as many or as few people as you choose.

Open Source Portfolio Initiative

Newsforge

The free software movement was inspired by the ideals of academic research, and in the last few years it has given some of the fruits of that inspiration back to academia. One of the largest open source projects in academia is the WebCT. Its functions are to assist universities in administering Web servers, teachers in preparing online course components, and both teachers and students in designing and using portfolios, which are academically oriented personal Web pages. Despite some flaws, the project fulfills its functions well.

Academic portfolios evolved from samples of work assembled by writers and artists. In the last five years they have become a major part of online learning. Instructors' portfolios usually consist of syllabuses for the courses they are teaching and samples of professional work. Students' portfolios show their efforts to understand course material, often by a combination of two elements: Reflections, or blog-like writing about the course material, and artifacts, which are related graphics or sound and movie clips. Both professor and student portfolios may also contain contact information and résuméés. Students' portfolios may be public, or shared selectively, and are often coordinated with online course components that may also include elearning modules and student presentations.

These are the needs that OSP is designed to support. OSP was begun in January 2003 as a joint project of the University of Minnesota, the University of Delaware, and The rSmart Group, a commercial company specializing in open source applications for education. The first version, released in July 2003, was built on top of a job application program. The second version, funded by a grant of $518,000 from the Mellon Foundation and matching funds from Indiana University and The rSmart Group, is built on SAKAI, an open source content management system for education. OSP 2.0.1, a maintenance release, was released in August 2005, and version 2.1 is scheduled for release next month.

Social Source Commons

The ultimate goal of the Social Source Commons (SSC) is to create a "knowledge commons" that maps the NPO/NGO software space and makes sense of the collective expertise related to that software. It aims to provide those who need information on NPO/NGO software access to lists of what's available, with each list item linked to relevant documentation, localization tools, services and events, user reviews and a place to request the tools and features they can't find. It is envisioned to catalyze a network of shared resources and contributors rather than simply building a single comprehensive web site or database, connecting the rich but relatively unlinked array of NPO/NGO-focused software information resources that already exist and builds upon it.

Web-Empowered Church (WEC)

The WEC is a new ministry of The Foundation for Evangelism designed to help churches around the world apply Internet technology to enhance evangelism, discipleship, and care. See the About Section for details. And be sure to watch the introductory video presentation titled "Web-Empowering the Church" to learn more.

e-Sword links to download files

By Tom Childers

E-Sword is a free Bible program which may be downloaded at http://www.e-sword.net. Below are some sites which have additional free files.

Diogenes

Diogenes is a tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek, that are published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute. It is free software: you are encouraged to modify, improve, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public license. The goal of this software package is to provide a free, transparent and flexible interface to databases in the PHI format.