I would guess that most of the volunteers have gone over to DP. I have no information to backup this speculation, however, so take it for what it's worth. The reason I feel this way is simply because, from what I've seen, the DP model works better than the "old way" for the majority of projects. By the way, on an unrelated note, everyone who receives a CD or DVD from us is encouraged to go over and check out DP, so hopefully that has given you all a few more volunteers. Keep up the great work. Sincerely Aaron Cannon At 01:16 PM 9/17/2004, you wrote:
"Frank" == Frank van Drogen <fvandrog@scripps.edu> writes:
>> I usually skim the news letter to see if there is anything new, >> and I noticed this little stat: 352 Average Per Month in 2004 >> 355 Average Per Month in 2003. >> >> Anyone have any theories as to why we are doing fewer books per >> month on average this year? Not complaining, just a little >> curious.
Frank> I think one reason that DP produces a little less texts Frank> compared to approximately one year ago is the fact that Frank> more and more projects get HTML markup, which makes these Frank> texts a lot more usefull (IMHO), but reduces the output Frank> because people are still supposed to prepare the text Frank> version as well. So having to produce two versions, and the Frank> fact that adding markup, images, links between ToC and Frank> indices just takes more time reduces the quantity of the Frank> output. Having the HTML editions, however, definitely Frank> increases quality....
I don't think that DP has produced less texts; in one year, we passed to 2000 to 5000 posted books; but the percentage of non-DP contribution to PG has dropped to almost nothing. Part of the 2003 average however was due to inflated numbers: automatic MP3 and books with chapters posted with different numbers.
I cannot say if the "freelance" volunteers have passed to DP, been discouraged by DP, or something else. It would be interesting to understand.
Carlo
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