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The Open Church
The Open Church is an open source project that helps churches and other non-profit organizations use their website to its fullest potential. The Open Church provides online applications that let users to interact with each other online, make it easy to create online content, and manage your congregation and leaders.
Features List
Content Management Tools:
- Content Management - Easily edit web pages online and allow others to edit pages with an integrated approval system
- Template System - Lets you make changes to your whole site with the update of one file
- Calendar App - With iCal support so you can integrate the calendar into your favorite PIM
- Audio and Video Podcast App
- Video Integration with CMS
- Blog App
- Photo Gallery App
- Support for Multiple Domains
Community Interaction Tools:
- User Directory App
- Chat Room App
- Donation App
- Mailing Lists
- Bulletin Board App
Church Management Tools:
- Calendar
- Volunteer Calendar - Schedule help and send e-mail and SMS reminders.
- Mailing Lists
The Open Church gives you acces to all of these features while also maintaining your ablility to design your site however you would like. You can also delegate tasks and content creation so that other leaders in your organization can provide input into your site. The Open Church makes running your website and keeping it up to date as easy as possible.
Open Church Hosting
Interstellar Technologies provides hosting of the Open Church application for $25/month + storage fees. E-Mail can be added for an extra $30/month (includes 15 addresses and 15 GB of space). For churches and organizations who have an IT staff, visit www.theopenchurch.com to download and use the application free of charge.
If you would like to contact someone at Intersellar Technologies please see our Hosting Inquiry page.
To get The Open Church Hosting, Sign Up Now!
To get a better idea of what the Open Church can do for you, take a look at some sites using The Open Church:
Storage Fees:
All multimedia files in The Open Church are stored and served by Amazon S3. This means you get unlimited storage and you only pay for the storage and bandwidth you use. The storage fees are as follows:
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Usage Type |
Price ($) |
Details |
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| Data Transfer |
GB of data transfer in |
0.20 |
per GB |
| GB of data transfer out |
0.27 |
per GB |
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| Requests |
1,000 PUT or LIST requests |
0.02 |
per Requests |
| 10,000 GET and all other requests |
0.02 |
per Requests |
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| Storage |
GB-Month of storage used |
0.25 |
per GB-Mo |
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