Thanks, Greg. Here's a copy of the posting I made in response in the DP forums. I'd be surprised if anyone can identify a single ebook produced elsewhere that can compare favorably with one of ours that has received the full-course treatment. Anyone suggesting that an inferior version would influence DP's commitment to completing an excellent one doesn't understand what we're about. Especially not a preview version of our own. I would expect it would be much more likely to encourage others to come join us. An example: the Encyclopedia Britannica project that was available on PG when I joined DP (and still is, by the way,) was unquestionably inferior to what we currently produce after just two Rounds of proofing; yet was still impressive enough to catch my interest, first helping proof/format, then as project manager for Encyclopedia Britannica. For comparison, here's a project submitted and released this week<http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/1/7/9/31793> . Despite the fact that there are several inferior EB versions available on the internet, I have if anything noticed a recent upswing in the relative number of new people working on EB in the early rounds. I hope putting their work out for others to see will help attract more. I would also expect it might encourage some of those we have to progress into the further rounds, where work grinds quickly to a halt. It certainly would be an encouragement to provide earlier posting; based on current production rates, most of them wouldn't see their work released in their own lifetimes. - Don On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
As mentioned a few weeks ago, I encouraged people who were interested to set up a pre-release area for items in the Distributed Proofreaders processing chain. There is now a site that has this proof of concept:
This was done by Greg Weeks, using entirely (or almost entirely) DP items he is the project manager for. But other folks who are project managers can ask to have their items included.
He announced it here, and there is some follow-up discussion. You need a DP username to access this forum:
http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=43367
The scripts are checked in at:
http://dp50.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pgdpprerelease/
It's uncertain whether this will continue as-is, or there will be other, competing ideas, or we'll not keep up with this, or something else. Feedback & ideas welcome.
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