Folks - I agree with Tim M that the fact that our output is stagnant is very telling; its much more important than whether we are complying with Moore's Law, Megan's Law or Murphy's Law. While one important issue is the post-proofing bottleneck in DP (which is being given attention), as important but more fundamental is whether the PG project/organization/effort is positioned for growth. In my view, chugging along at 5-10K per year is very nice, but will be increasingly marginalized by other efforts (whether Google-wise or otherwise). It also raises a difficult issue: If we are going to do a significant chunk of the public domain in a reasonably short period, it probably doesn't matter in what order we do the books. If we are only going to get to 50K over the next 5 years or to 100K over the next 10 years, we should probably give some thought to where we should put our efforts (e.g. what is the relative value of "The Yale Shakespeare" on top of the several versions of each play we already have?) Steve Harris pg@steveharris.net
-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Tim Meekins Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 2:27 PM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Fw: [gweekly] 15,000th Project Gutenberg eBook Released
From the last newsletter, I think this is the most telling stat:
338 Average Per Month in 2004 355 Average Per Month in 2003 203 Average Per Month in 2002 103 Average Per Month in 2001
4049 New eBooks in 2004 4164 New eBooks in 2003 2441 New eBooks in 2002 1240 New eBooks in 2001
We've done FEWER books in 2004 than in 2003... At that rate, I don't see how we could be keeping up with Moore's Law. We did pretty good from 2001 to 2003, but we've started to plateau, if not slide back a bit. I'm sure we will see much more growth, but at a steady Moore's Law curve, I'm not so sure.
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