On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:35 PM, don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:

Summary of the situation (as it seems to me).

SNIP

What can DP do in the reasonable short-term future that would be low risk and low effort?

The first most obvious to me is to start getting serious about passing along the raw materials. Upload in as complete form as possible the matching image and text files so future modification and adaptation is possible. There's no loss to DP by doing so; and the risk is that over time they are quite capable of losing track of them.

SNIP Yes please. Please provide a complete archive of the project files (Scans, text, clearance docs, etc) in an obvious location for all projects and submissions (DP or otherwise). This can be at PG, at DP, at archive.org or elsewhere... I don't care where, so long as it has the same permanence of a PG text, and has the same 'lack' of barriers to access as PG texts. Just as open source projects literally require distribution of the un-compiled code so that future folks can see the foundation of the work as well as the finished product, so can ebooks benefit if future users can (if they choose) see the basis of the work as well as the finished product if they feel like offering an improved or altered version. Thanks! Kevin