I would love to see expansions and revisions of the LDS Hymnbook through crowdsourcing, particularly for the international church. Perhaps members around the world could submit youtube videos or mp3 versions of themselves performing original works which they would like to see published in their local hymnbook. It would be similar to the international art competition but digital. I think it could be a mix of wider membership, expert panel, and church administration on the judging side of things. This would accelerate the artistic richness of the church, particularly for members outside of the U.S. who have few resources in terms of recording or studio equipment or connections to the church music committee but who could nonetheless could use a simple digital camera to record their creativity and artistic expression of their testimony. We need to discover the equivalent of what W.W. Phelps was for the musical artistic explosion that occurred in early Church History but in Ghana, Korea, India etc. That’s what I would love to see.

Suggestion: Missionary work? Try our stuff out on members to help them become more motivated to do missionary work; try it out on non-members to better understand communicating with them, and to engage them in a productive dialogue.

Missionary work online can also benefit from crowdsourcing. Elder Ballard request to participate in the online discussion about the Church is a nice way to use crowdsourcing and expand member missionary work.

However, the Family History Record Extraction program is a more targeted way of crowdsourcing and it is very well organized, but I suppose that the work for people on the other side of the veil is always easier to organize than the work with people on this side.

If opening the code to the entire world is more than the Church is willing to do, perhaps they could create code.lds.org which only permits Church members to access the source code and submit patches.