Technical Collection for Consideration.
One of the drawbacks of PG is that it is considered mainly a fiction/literature type collection. In this regard it is good to add some Technical Books. The easiest way to do this would be to (a) Harvest Technical Books that are already hosted on other sites and then add them here. Proofreading them based on user feedback is suggested. (b) Provide a link to such a Project on PG. In this regard here is one site for consideration: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com Lots of EBooks and other materials for programmers. Created/Maintained by a very enthusiastic person. Vijay _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com
On 18 May 2005, at 4:29, rvijay07 wrote:
One of the drawbacks of PG is that it is considered mainly a fiction/literature type collection.
By whom? Why is that a drawback?
In this regard it is good to add some Technical Books.
Why?
The easiest way to do this would be to (a) Harvest Technical Books that are already hosted on other sites and then add them here. Proofreading them based on user feedback is suggested. (b) Provide a link to such a Project on PG.
I think people should add whatever they want to add. If you feel like adding technical books, please go ahead. -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl
On Wed, 18 May 2005, rvijay07 wrote:
One of the drawbacks of PG is that it is considered mainly a fiction/literature type collection. In this regard it is good to add some Technical Books.
rvijay, I know you asked about what kind of things a new volunteer might want to be aware of about PG. This is one of them. There are regularly people who come in and say "The problem with PG is that [fill in the blank]" As if they hope that "some people" will go ahead and fix this "obvious deficiency". Here I can give Jon Noring credit. He has views of what would make PG better, and he is _actively trying to do something about it_. It might help you to realize that the most involved PG volunteers may not be posting here a great deal because they have a lot to do. In fact I would say that they always have a large backlog of tasks to do. If you have some partcular texts that you would like to see added to the collection, which you believe can be freely distributed, go ahead and look at getting PG copyright clearance, then preparing the texts for PG. You are bound to have questions along the way, and we are happy to help here. Just ask. Andrew
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