May 2005 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

PG for Mac users
by Dick Adicks 24 May '05

24 May '05

Is there a sub-group to help Mac users to create e-texts that will communicate successfully with PCs? Are there individual volunteers who use Macs and can advise others? Dick Adicks

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PG and Creative Commons
by Tony Baechler 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi. Is there any kind of official statement or PG policy concerning works licensed under a Creative Commons license? Are such works acceptable? Also, is there anyone maintaining the PG music archive? I am asking because I know of several composers of classic MIDI files. I am planning to ask them to consider licensing their works under a Creative Commons type license. I can also mention Project Gutenberg and/or drop a name of someone for them to contact if they want or will allow PG to distribute their works. This would be good for PG because some composers have done a lot of classical music from a number of pre-1922 compositions. I don't think I can help with sheet music, and of course I have no way of knowing that the sheet music sources they used are in the public domain. I know that some of them also make various files available in mp3, but I don't think they offer other formats. Is this something I should consider on behalf of PG or not? If PG is interested in something like this, I would also ask them to consider just releasing their files into the public domain, but I doubt if that will happen. Thanks, and feel free to write me off list if it's easier. Tony Baechler Maintainer, goldenaudio.net (TM) online archives http://goldenaudio.net/

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re: [gutvol-d] so, jim, please tell me what it is that you do
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 24 May '05

24 May '05

dick said: > As a writer of local histories, I endorse this proposal. The day > will come when somebody will want to write a history of PG. the historians will have a field-day with _that_! :+) but yes, everyone's contributions should be documented thoroughly, for the simple and correct sake of giving credit where credit is due. and inclusion in the newsletter should be just the first step. i think a wiki would be the best way to go, so anyone who felt that they had been left out could write themselves in, with plenty of people on hand to go right back in and restore a sense of proportion if any one individual got out of hand... -bowerbird

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so, jim, please tell me what it is that you do
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 23 May '05

23 May '05

jim said: > And please note, by "regulars" I mean > people who were actually contributing to PG, > who knew what they were talking about from experience, > and who had a stake in the outcome. > Monday-morning Quarterbacks weren't really in evidence. well, jim, since you have said that i am one of the people who don't know what it is that y'all _do_ here, perhaps you would like to explain to us all what it is that you think i fail to comprehend in sufficient detail? because i think i understand it just fine. i even believe i can provide some solutions that you've been unable to provide yourself, such as the he/be thing discussed recently, just to give one concrete example. or, since this thread was talking about the promo boards, a few of the "challenges" that you laid out there, years ago, if you haven't gotten them solved yet. i fully realize that a lot of the people who criticize you and your processes do not fully understand what you're doing, and that wears a person down after a while. but when you put me in that category, i think you are making a big mistake... like the far-too-numerous false-alarms in gutcheck, which cause you to ignore the alarms entirely and therefore miss the times when the alarm was true, i think you've come to ignore everybody's criticism, chalking it up to "you don't know what we do here, and you certainly don't know as much about it as i do", and therefore miss out on some poignant feedback... so by all means, tell me what it is that you do that is so difficult to grasp that i don't get it... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] PG for Mac users
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 23 May '05

23 May '05

one of the top 5% said: > Are there individual volunteers who use Macs and can advise others? it is also the case that, since distributed proofreaders is web-based, mac users can get along just fine other there. just so you know... -bowerbird

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Help with video formats
by Robert Cicconetti 23 May '05

23 May '05

On 5/22/05, Jim Tinsley <jtinsley(a)pobox.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:04:51PM -0400, Robert Cicconetti wrote: > >On 5/22/05, Jim Tinsley <jtinsley(a)pobox.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:25:24PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote: > > > >But all of that is not as good as getting a more accurate capture of > >the original. To me, converting those video files is like automated > >conversion of text to html.. useful to some, but referring back to the > >original text delivers a much better final product. > > > >For 1994, that is very good digital video footage. For 2005.. well, > >most camera phones do better. > > For 11 years, anybody could have come to us with improvements to > it, and they still can. Such is the nature of PG; things get built > on, improved, re-formatted, whatever. 16MB was quite a chunk of > real-estate to devote to this back in 1994. 16MB is not so scary > now! If you, or someone, can get better originals, then you should > by all means let us know. I think the collection represented by that DVD is likely the best transfer of the original 16mm and television coverage that is widely available.. the question is how much is clearable under Rule 8. And that is a rather large can of worms.. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009XYYF/ is the particular work I am referring to. If it is clearable, then at some point I can purchase a copy, rip the scene.. wait, now we get into DMCA territory.. you can why I am a little hesitant here. The ideal solution, of course, would be to get the footage straight from NASA. Anyone have any contacts there? ;) R C (Whoops.. didn't check the To: box the first time..)

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copy of the archive on DVD
by Aaron Cannon 23 May '05

23 May '05

Please note that this is only an internal offer, not one for the general public. If any of you active volunteers have a need for a copy of all of the zip files (minus mp3s and human genom) from the archive on DVDs, please let me know. Thanks! Sincerely Aaron Cannon -- E-mail: cannona(a)fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona(a)hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)

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Re: [gutvol-d] Attempt to add: Flight From The City
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 22 May '05

22 May '05

In a message dated 5/22/2005 2:01:50 AM Mountain Daylight Time, holden.mcgroin(a)dsl.pipex.com writes: Then surely it should be possible to publish this at PG of Australia since, up until recently, their copyright law was Life + 50 and the recent extensions do not (I believe) apply to books which had already fallen into the public domain. I really cannot imagine who would complain to us about publishing MEIN KAMPF if that is what we're still talking about, whether it's legally public domain or not. It's all over the Net. That's why I don't think it's really essential for us to do it. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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Help with video formats
by Jim Tinsley 22 May '05

22 May '05

Etext #116, Video of the first moon landing, needs attention, and I'm no video format expert. There are three files: landiavi.zip landimpg.zip landiqt.zip all in etext94/. The AVI is perfect. The MPG has perfect picture, but no sound. Given the disparity in file sizes, I don't think this was corruption. The QT/MOV won't play for me at all. Yes, I may not have the latest QT, but this file is from 1994!! :-) The obvious solution is to make MPG and QT files from the AVI. A complication that, thankfully, we don't need to deal with is that the landiqt.zip on archive.org is corrupt; same file size but some bytes different, leading to a corrupt zip. Not a problem, because we can work from the file on ibiblio, and just replace the archive version. If someone knowledgeable in this area could contact me off-list, and help me towards getting a good solution, I'd appreciate it! jim

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re: automated conversion of text to .html
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 22 May '05

22 May '05

robert said: > To me, converting those video files is like > automated conversion of text to html.. > useful to some, but > referring back to the original text > delivers a much better final product. i know you were _trying_ to say something there, but i don't think i got it. would you please rephrase? because compared to creating a .html book manually -- which is how a good many people create them -- i think doing it automatically is _much_ superior, given end-results that are even roughly equivalent... :+) when you said "referring back to the original text", did you mean looking at the original paper-book itself, either directly or by viewing scans of its pages? -bowerbird

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