Hi Darryl I love the tone of the quoted paragraph below. How can you tell we are stereotypical Canadians? We worry about "stepping on others' toes". I've been a fairly long-time volunteer contributor to PG (about 5 years) so if you have any questions regarding that organization feel free to ask. I feel that anything we can take from PG-US, which has already been proven, will only make the birthing of PG of Canada easier on us all. I must say that from the point of view of technical details about the texts themselves, James' preferance for xml as a master file does make me wonder somewhat. As we don't have another project (that I am aware of) to base our initial efforts in this format on, we will be working out the bugs on our own... Also, I believe the collection will grow much slower than if we were to use un-marked-up text files. However, the alluring vision of a collection of consistently marked-up texts is tempting. Perhaps I lack the prior experience to really know how long it will take to get to that point. James, convince me! :) On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Darryl Moore wrote:
Lastly... I know I am a newbie here so tell me if I am stepping on anybodys toes. I have significant enthusiasm for this project right now and I don't want my own momentum to wain. From what I've seen here I think there is a lot of enthusiasm from a great many people and I want to encourage that as well. I don't want anybody to feel pushed out, and I know if left on my own I'll just pick it all up and run with it until I burn out. So please tell me how I can help rather than just letting me take over.