Re: [PGCanada] James website and more news
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From: Jon Noring
Well, it shows PG-Canada can find partners in the long-term endeavor to convert the public domain works of Canadiana into high quality digital texts.
We're not likely to get partnership with Cold North Wind, who are in the business of selling content, although, who knows, they might donate some tech stuff if asked. PG/DP-int already have informal agreements with Canadiana.org and ourroots.ca. I've Project-Managed two Canadiana.org works onto the PG- int site already, with two more in my queue for post-processing.
Wallace wrote:
Jon Noring wrote:
Well, it shows PG-Canada can find partners in the long-term endeavor to convert the public domain works of Canadiana into high quality digital texts.
We're not likely to get partnership with Cold North Wind, who are in the business of selling content, although, who knows, they might donate some tech stuff if asked.
PG/DP-int already have informal agreements with Canadiana.org and ourroots.ca. I've Project-Managed two Canadiana.org works onto the PG- int site already, with two more in my queue for post-processing.
Thanks for clarifying the current status of partnerships. I do encourage PG-Canada, once it is incorporated as a non-profit, to create a Board of Trustees which is diverse and includes outsiders from allied groups and stakeholders. The Board should, also, be more than just window-dressing -- it needs to be the ultimate authority in the global operation of the organization (the Executive Director will implement the Board's direction for day-to-day operations.) This is the way all successful non-profits work -- good governance and organization, and not closed to the outside world. It will greatly increase the chances of private and public funding to be properly governed and organized. Jon Noring
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Wallace J.McLean wrote:
We're not likely to get partnership with Cold North Wind, who are in the business of selling content, although, who knows, they might donate some tech stuff if asked.
We shouldn't always be assuming that traditional creators and smaller publishers will never "see the light" and want to join us. As a creator myself I believe in a strong and growing public domain, and find that once they spend adequate time to think about it most other creators do as well. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: http://www.flora.ca/ Code is Law: how software code regulates the activities of citizens, and acts similar to law. How do we ensure transparency/accountability? http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/code-is-law.html
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Russell McOrmond wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Wallace J.McLean wrote:
We're not likely to get partnership with Cold North Wind, who are in the business of selling content, although, who knows, they might donate some tech stuff if asked.
We shouldn't always be assuming that traditional creators and smaller publishers will never "see the light" and want to join us. As a creator myself I believe in a strong and growing public domain, and find that once they spend adequate time to think about it most other creators do as well.
You also never know what they might do to get addition publicity. . . . mh
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