About LSM
Learn more about the software

What is LSM?

A small team of brothers designed the London SMPW Manager (LSM) software to manage London’s Special Metropolitan Public Witnessing.
Now LSM is used to manage SMPW in multiple cities around the world.

This website will introduce you to the software’s features and how these help you to manage SMPW as an overseer or site administrator .
May Jehovah bless your efforts to organise SMPW in your city to preach the good news to all sorts of people.

What is required to install LSM?

Each city can install the application on their own shared or dedicated hosting solution. We currently recommend either IONOS or AWS depending on your preference.
It is preferred that as part of your team you have a technical brother familiar with Web Hosting, but we can provide assistance along the way to get everyone up and running.
You will need:
A shared or dedicated Linux Server running PHP8.3.
A domain.
A MySQL Database.
Access to an email service.

The story behind

How LSM started

  • The LSM project originated when the coordinating brothers of the London SMPW programme identified the need for a new website—one capable of addressing the growing organisational and functional needs of the programme. The previous platform had become outdated and increasingly difficult to maintain.
    In December 2019 approval was granted to a small team of two brothers to begin development. During the pandemic the site was launched for extensive testing involving hundreds of users—both tech-savvy and non-technical—who explored its features and helped identify a wide range of usage scenarios.

    Over time the LSM team has grown to include over 30 volunteers, now organised into four key departments: Development, Design, Documentation, and Translation.

    Each of these departments has an appointed overseer, and the LSM project as a whole is under the care of a designated overseer, working in harmony with the London SMPW Coordination Team, who provide overall oversight and direction.
  • Following a successful testing phase and recognising the benefits the tool could bring to others, the London SMPW team made the decision to offer the system to other SMPW programmes across Britain, and eventually to those internationally.

    Over the past six years, LSM has been continually refined and expanded, with new features regularly added to support the varying needs of SMPW programmes in diverse locations.

    As interest increased from non-English-speaking cities, a major initiative in 2024 enabled full multi-language functionality. The platform is now available in Spanish, Italian, and French, and is built to support translation into any other required language.
  • The team of brothers and sisters consist of developers, testers, translators and documenters all working behind the scenes maintaining the software and building new features.. They are remote workers based in England, Portugal and Cyprus.

    All praise to Jehovah for making this project possible, supporting Special Metropolitan Public Witnessing in cities around the world.


LSM Statistics

A few fun facts about LSM
30+

LSM Team members

20+

Cities Using LSM

100,000+

Users Worldwide

What you can expect from LSM

We balance technical functionality with visual elements to create a system that is operationally effective for overseers and user-friendly for publishers to manage their shifts.

Responsive Design

LSM software is created to work on all devices; desktop, laptop, iPad and even mobile. Especially popular is the small schedule view for mobile screens.

Program Support

Support provided by other cities using LSM as well as the LSM Development team. Bugs are normally resolved within 1-14 days. Requests for help from users are reduced thanks to a fully integrated User Guide.

Easy Installation

A technical brother familiar with Web Hosting can easily follow our step-by-step guide and be ready to go within a few hours, but we can always provide assistance along the way to get everyone up and running.

Fully Customizable

The software can be changed to any colour scheme you would like, there are various options for this. Locations can be changed to the specific names of your territory as well as location images uploaded for publishers to identify easily.

New Features

Brothers can submit new feature requests to the development team, if approved it will be implemented into the software.

LSM Frameworks

LSM uses well maintained frameworks, Vuetify and Laravel, which allows for ease of development and regular security patches.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you need more help