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re: [gutvol-d] All people with accounts on ibiblio! PG site moving to wiki
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

marcello said: > Proactive conflict management. well, i suppose if you really cannot help yourself from becoming entangled, that's understandable. good luck with your wiki. -bowerbird

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All people with accounts on ibiblio! PG site moving to wiki
by Marcello Perathoner 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

I'm moving the static part of the PG site to a wiki. This will allow more people to participate in the site maintenance and improvement. Everybody who currently has shell access on ibiblio should stop editing the html pages and transfer their content to the wiki instead. The wiki will soon replace most of the PG site, except for the online catalog and a few other pages. The wiki can be reached at: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/ 1. Currently all new users have to be added by a sysop (me). If you speak wiki and want an account, mail me your username and initial password. You will be added to the "gutenberg" group. 2. The wiki has a 'private' section. All pages starting with "Gutenberg:" are editable by the "gutenberg" group only. This will be the 'official' PG site. 3. The rest of the wiki works just like wikis are supposed to work. You may put it to any use you like that helps "producing and distributing ebooks". -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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re: [gutvol-d] All people with accounts on ibiblio! PG site moving to wiki
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

i see that _marcello_ has blocked _me_ as a "troll". ironic, eh? t.e.i. is lagging, but the smear campaign continues. whatever, i've got better things to think about... -bowerbird

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!@! 4 Weeks: The Big Push, Well Not So Big This Time
by Michael Hart 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

As most of you are aware, it is 4 weeks until we complete our 35th year of Project Gutenberg history, and we have about 380 eBooks left to make it to 20,000. This would be about 95 per week. . .we did 82 this week. So it's not such a Big Push as we did to get to 10,000, but a rather smaller push, which is why you haven't heard me say an awfully lot about it. . .things are working out much a closer match to reaching 20,000 on our 35th anniversary than anyone, myself included, would likely have predicted. However, especially since I am planning on taking a week off, right at July 4th, I am best man at my best friend's wedding, I am trying to get as much as possible done before I leave as soon as I can after sending out the Newsletter a week before. I am working on the July 5th Newsletter, and will have it out in a fairly complete manner half a day after the previous one goes out, and am hoping that some of our volunteers will have the wherewithal to update it and send it out July 5th with an entirely up to date revision, that hopefully will hit 20,000. If you have any books that are near completion, but would not be totally through all the various processes, we can put them in the "PrePrints" section now, where perhaps a few people in the next few weeks can help with them. More later, I'm just trying to make it one day at a time right now. . . . Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org

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re: [gutvol-d] Dagger/sword symbol, Scandinavian countries
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

andrew said: > Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887" gosh i enjoyed that book as a youngster... -bowerbird

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Works of Bertolt Brecht
by Marcello Perathoner 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Famous German playwright Bertolt Brecht died 14. Aug. 1956. His works will therefore be in the public domain in life+50 countries by January. I'm a big fan of Brecht so I'm willing to put quite a lot of work into an electronic edition of his works. I have an edition of his "Gesammelte Werke" (collected works, 20 volumes) Copyright Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1967 that I'm willing to sacrifice to the good cause. Is this edition eligible for processing by DP-EU or any other DP? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster(a)gutenberg.org

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Thank You for all of your work (fwd)
by Michael Hart 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

As usual at this time of the year, I will be sending you some "Thank You Notes" from our Project Gutenberg readers. Here is one message, in it's entirety, that I hope you enjoy! Thanks!!! Give the world eBooks in 2006!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Blog at http://hart.pglaf.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:48:23 +0100 From: Amy <amy.e.pedersen(a)gmail.com> To: hart(a)pobox.com Subject: Thank You for all of your work Dear Project Gutenberg, I dont know if many people take the time to thank you, but I just wanted to express my gratitude for the services you provide. Thank you all for your work and dedication. Your work is profoundly appreciated. I am a Peace Corps Volunteer working deep in rural Namibia. I had always admired Project Gutenberg (even donating some time through Distributed Proofreaders) but I have only begun to realize how truly important it is since I have been here. When I was in America it was nice to have access to books whenever I felt like it, without having to go to the trouble of going to a library or bookshop, but here it is vital. Bookshops are rare in Namibia (the nearest one to my village is over 250 kilometres away) and the books they sell are often very very expensive (especially considering my limited financial resources.) Also, the books they sell are often only in Afrikaans or German, neither of which I understand (Peace Corps taught me the tribal language in my villageKhoeKhoeinstead.) Libraries are even rarer and often badly under stocked. I am trying to build up a school library, but we are dependent on donations and it is much more important to get easy to read picture books to help the children with their English than to get classics for my own consumption. Project Gutenberg has become my library. I didnt realize the importance of plain vanilla texts until I got here and realized how slow and expensive internet is. The zipped plain vanilla texts often take less than 5 or 10 minutes to download and provide hours of reading enjoyment. Thank you for being an equalizing force in literacy, allowing books to reach those who would otherwise have a hard time getting them. Your work is thoroughly appreciated. I have shared your site with other volunteers who also enjoy it. Thank you so much. I am immensely grateful. Sincerely, Amy Elizabeth Pedersen

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URL for a single author is PG catalogue?
by Dave Fawthrop 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

I am trying to beg a link to the PG catalogue for John Hartley's books from my local Library. He was a Halifax poet and they specialise in paper copies of his works. Is there a way of giving them a link to the PG catalogue which will go straight to John Hartley's books? This must be quite a common problem, could someone consider including it in the PG FAQ? -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design". Sig (C) Copyright Public Domain

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Dagger/sword symbol, Scandinavian countries
by Al Haines (shaw) 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

A couple of questions, just to satisfy my curiosity: - A book I'm working on has a small dagger or sword symbol (point down, handle up) next to some dates. It looks something like the "dagger" symbol in Windows' Arial font, Unicode U2020. Two examples, with an exclamation mark substituting for the symbol, are "Occam ! c. 1349" and "Colet ! 1519". What does this symbol mean? - On several books' copyright page, I've seen the statement "all rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian." Why are Scandinavian languages specially noted like this? Al

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DP-Canada progress report
by Michael Lockey 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

We are experiencing some delays while awaiting the DP-EU source. They're heavily overworked there, but not a problem... The forums are up at dp-can.cybernetik.ca/phpbb2, so please feel free to log on and make suggestions as the site becomes more accessible. Content providers may start entering through userid dpscans with password of image$. The files go into the directory \inetpub\dp-uploads. Users can create their own subdirectories, e.g. "\vasa", and thereunder put their projects, e.g. "\vasa\FamousParrotsIhaveKnown". (I might note that I'm not ready to put this up with a proper web address until it's a lot more stable than it is: the situation is only temporary, of course.) Michael Lockey (Hoping to surprize and amuse you once we are flying; many thanks to Don Kretz for all his work.)

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