Box 2
Box 2
A lot has changed since the unfoldingWord project was first launched in 2014. Over the years we have started some projects that have fizzled, much to our dismay! However, we think it is wise to learn from these fizzles and try again, rather than push to completion something that isn’t achieving the objective we set for it.
There is a book called The Three Box Solution which helpfully points out that a strong “Box 2” that is able to “Selectively forget the past” is an important part of success for an organization. We have many “Box 1” (in progress) projects that are effectively meeting needs we see on the field. We also have a handful of “Box 3” projects which we are working on, things we think will meet the needs of tomorrow. In order for us to be effective in Box 1 and Box 3, we have let the following projects fall into our Box 2.
Some of these projects only fizzled from the standpoint of what we were attempting to accomplish with them; they may still be valuable to others. So, good news, if any of these happened to be your favorite project, you can fork them and rebuild because they are all open licensed.
Deprecated Projects
- The Unlocked English Bible
Superseded Projects
- The Unlocked Literal Bible - This has developed into the unfoldingWord® Literal Text.
- The Unlocked Dynamic Bible - This has developed into the unfoldingWord® Simplified Text.
- translationKeyboard - While this served a need for many people, a superior product became openly licensed, so now we recommend you use Keyman.
In the News
Stories From the Field
Breakthrough in Chad
- July 04, 2022
Three churches were birthed when a local chieftain, who formerly combined Islam and the occult, came to Christ. In the another community, new believers were baptized, and two new churches were planted...
MARYAM the LIBRARIAN: A war-traumatized girl finds the Prince of Peace and becomes a Bible translator
- April 06, 2022
Dr. Maryam Ghobadi was a little girl living near the Iran/Iraq border when war broke out in the 1980s. When she was still very young, her family moved to Tehran to escape the fighting, but the move di...
OVERCOMING the ODDS for 300,000 PEOPLE
- April 06, 2022
The challenge Pastor Manish was facing seemed insurmountable. His 300,000-member South Asian mountain people group desperately needs Scripture in the language they understand best. Pastor Manish, an e...
Ruska Roma celebrate first Scripture in their language
- September 20, 2021
EASTERN UKRAINE — To Stephen K., holding a Ruska Roma translation of 3 John means more than a chance to celebrate with his Roma friends. It’s the answer to 10 years of prayer. In April, a team of fou...
Escape from Kharkiv
- June 28, 2022
BAM! A rocket penetrates a building, shattering windows and shaking foundations. Clatter! Bomb debris splatters cars, building façades, and adjacent roofs. Bang-Bang-Bang! The jackhammer staccato of A...
Oscarcito and the Yanomami
- June 23, 2022
Hernán walked out to board a missionary’s small plane deep in the South American rainforests. Then he paused, turned around, went back to his house, and did something unusual. “I feel like I should le...
SOUTH ASIA GATEWAY LANGUAGE TRANSLATORS OPEN the GATES to TITUS
- April 06, 2022
Imagine you had never heard of Noah’s Ark, Joseph’s many-colored coat, Moses and Pharaoh, or David and Goliath. You could not call on their inspiration and encouragement, because your language did not...
Iran: Bibles in every language
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Iran: Bibles in every language
- January 04, 2022
222 Ministries President Lazarus Yeghnazar dreams of the day when his country, Iran, will have Bibles in every local language. Using unfoldingWord's translation tools and Biblica's newly-revised Farsi...
A Scrap of Paper that Changed a Life
- December 28, 2021
It was 2006. A young Islamic man, walking home in Khartoum, Sudan, found a scrap of paper that changed his life and began his journey to the forefront of Church-Centric Bible Translation. His name is ...
Zafar's Favorite Tool
- December 28, 2021
This year, unfoldingWord completed the initial training of the Russian Gateway Language team. All 50 Open Bible Stories and nine Scripture Book Packages are now available in Russian, serving as the Ga...
Seizing the moment in Sudan
- November 01, 2021
Circling the Kaaba with thousands of fellow Muslims during the Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca), a young Sudanese man comes to a moment of crisis. He realizes that fellow believers from all over the...
Open Bible Stories open doors for Gospel in Venezuela
For Piaroa Christians like Alejandra, having unfoldingWord’s Open Bible Stories translated from Spanish into her heart language means more than nice bedtime stories for her kids. It means giving them ...
Bible Without a Village
- December 27, 2021
On December 4, our Spanish Gateway Language partners held their first translation workshop with Portuguese translators. Portuguese is the Gateway to 530 people groups representing about 50 million peo...