February 2015 - gutvol-d - lists.pglaf.org

[KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline
by Emmanuel Engelhart 17 May '17

17 May '17

Hi, The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11.zim.torre…. We also provide a few language specific versions here http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg. This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet) and it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org) This allows anybody with a computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books big library. You can also make it available for read to other people on your network, they only need a web browser. In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML (directly readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have created a custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few clicks you can find your book, read it or download it. What is also unique is that Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books content. You can see by yourself using this demonstration web site: http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/ Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France by four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the Fondation Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia CH. The Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use it already for its own deployments in Africa. The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is available here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows to release easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project and we will release periodically new version of this offline version of the Project Gutenberg. We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add, this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available. We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here: https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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Unicode UTF-8 Compatible Version of Gutcheck
by James Adcock 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

I've created a Unicode UTF-8 Compatible Version of Gutcheck, calling it gutcheck_u -- if anyone wants to try it. This was primarily an exercise in finding and changing 8-bit char coding dependencies to 16-bit widechar coding dependencies, but it did require some additional coding. Currently it is a somewhat Windows-dependent implementation, so if you want to run it on another OS it would take a little bit of work. I find it more pleasant to use if one's development file format of choice is UTF-8, and/or if one are doing such things as left-handed / right-handed quotes. Testing it on PG released files I am in fact finding a fair amount of left / right handedness errors that are not currently being discovered. Let me know if you want to try it, same distribution terms as the original. Jim Adcock jimad(a)msn.com

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i told him he was doing it wrong
by bowerbird 10 Feb '15

10 Feb '15

i _told_ him he was doing it wrong. but seth, well, he didn't listen to me. now his project -- "gitenberg", project gutenberg in github -- won a $35,000 prototype award from the knight foundation... that's right. 35 thousand smackers. > http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2015/1/30/22-projects-win-… that'll teach him to ignore me... -bowerbird p.s. now i just need to fork the rebase, so the merge will clone my repository, and i can diff the conflict in my commits without recovering fallback authentication or transferring the branch before deletion, as there's an issue configuring the remote, as we see by deleting the unused branches, since collaborators can't update credentials, although you can symlink the submodule tag, or you can push the ssh cache up your nose, but you'll need to filter a request to pull my leg. don't worry, it's ok, as long as you get the gist. because plain-text is the _simple_ format!

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Trans-Pacific Partnership and copyright extensions
by Al Haines 07 Feb '15

07 Feb '15

I received the following from Mark Akrigg, founder of Project Gutenberg Canada: The Electronic Frontier Foundation in the US has just commented on the new TPP mess. It's as good a summary of the situation as I've seen, and is well suited for colleagues outside Canada: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/negotiators-burn-their-last-opport unity-salvage-tpp-caving-copyright-term Al

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