A lot of what's been talked about here can, in my truly humble opinion be brought back to a question like --at this particular moment, what IS the internet and the diverse communities sociologically? I think a DP community and the way of working evolves facebook and twitter-wise ... which is why Ilike to work on my own a lot... 2010/2/15 don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de>wrote:
Hi All,
Let me see if I understand this right.
6 Rounds of work is done just to be worked over so that text and HTML versions can be created and the final result is published.
Why, in goods name is it not done the other way around !! Get a clean text and HTML version and then and all the googly goop after words. Sure would save alot of time.
I know DP knows above markup, but have they ever heard about pseudo-code/markup.
regards Keith.
Am 14.02.2010 um 21:47 schrieb don kretz:
You'd think it would be obvious, wouldn't you?
When DP started, here was the basic process as far as the participants were concerned.
1.) A person takes a page of text and a picture of the text, plus a mediocre online text editor and some guidelines for follow, and tries to get the text to match the picture.
2.) A second person takes their work and the same picture and guidelines, and tries to make it better.
3.) The system strings the text files together and hands them off to PG to publish.
Clean, simple, and most importantly it provides each person with the immediate and obvous positive gratification of seeing their work self-evidently closing the gap between the text and the picture.
Now, almost all the process has been so completely decomposed and constrained that almost all the oppportunity for gratification shows up for a little bit to the first proofer (who still must not do *too much* to make it look like the picture, i.e. format it); maybe the first formatter (if there's even much left to do), and supremely and finally, gloriously, the Post Processor (whose name is associated semi-eternally posted with their work.)
There's a whole lot more that can be said (is is said, in the DP forums, loudly, into the vastness of space), about how it got to be this way, and how happy people are about it, and what might be done. These are not dumb people, even though the work seems to have become dumb work. But there's the picture in a nutshell.
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