On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
I'm only interested in books that people actually read.
Then we've pretty much completed the list of English books. The exceptions are exceptions because they're hard; Newton's Principia is not a trival work. Far less so is the OED.
And not crappy books either, because there's no difference, reading a crappy book or watching a crappy show on tv.
Which contradicts your other goals; if you want it to be universal, you have to give people what they want, not what you think they should want.
Running a cooperative workflow of volunteers involves motivating people. A leader of such an effort can't just tell them what to do, or sometimes even how to do it. They need to gain their good will, evoke their interests, stimulate their creativity, and communicate with them in an open manner. Who is going to do that in the proposed organization?
What good is a leader if she *doesn't* tell people what to do ???
You get to tell me what to do when you pay my salary. You have no idea how to lead volunteers.
Wikipedia instead, by enforcing strict guidelines -- vilified by many -- in a lot less time, has become omnipresent. It's hard to come across a site that doesn't link to wikipedia.
You'll note that Wikipedia doesn't have a leader, and is pretty anarchic as a whole. Following the Wikipedia example would encourage PGDP to internally set better standards by consensus, not listen to one leader. Secondly, Wikipedia works by letting people work on what they want. There's quite a detail of information on various TV shows, random rock bands, minor sports stars, D&D, etc.
The next advance in technology will leave PG out of the game completely because PG has failed to deploy the least of technological safeguards, eg. a master format that can be made to transform into other unheard-of-today formats
I was all for TEI-Lite, until you made it clear you had no interest in my concerns about what it needed. You'll sell a master format the day you balance the concerns of the parties who have to use it. You'll never get people using a master format if you go about it by ordering people to use your format. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.