On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Darryl Moore wrote:
Regarding James preference for being involved in a non-PG org, my personal opinion is that PG has a bit of a reputation and therefore if we want to also have some influence in Ottawa it is best we stay a part of PG. That being said, I do not think there is any reason we cannot do everything James wants to do as PGCanada. (I'm a newby so I could be wrong in this assessment)
I think a careful reading of James' messages are in order. Of course, I can't speak for him, but I believe that he was discussing the status of the _software_ he had designed, preferring it to be an independant item possibly used for PG purposes, rather than something with the PG trademark "attached" to it. I must admit that, for me, the Project Gutenberg name is part of the draw. If someone just asked "Hey, I'm gonna make a collection of marked-up texts, want to help?" I would likely jsut role my eyes and think "Yet another person reformatting the same old texts?..."
It is still my intent to work on the legal side of creating this org, however my workload in other areas has increased since before christmas rather than let up at all. I do have a wiki set up on my home server now at www.moores.ca/wiki My intent is to put up all the legal resources I've found about setting up a not-for-profit and the draft articles I've created for others to review, markup, and comment on, hopefully by the week end.
That would be really wonderful. Is there anything the rest of us could do to help that? Andrew