Andrew Sly wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Wallace J.McLean wrote:

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Has it been?

Can we get a status report from whoever is "in charge", technically speaking?

Right now, I get the impression that James is willing to put some time into helping out, but not to be a full "in charge" organizer.

I've been staying in the background, but I think it's perhaps time to come out and make Project Gutenberg of Canada happen. I get the impression that the interest is almost at a critical mass right now, that could be lost if people don't see results...

I agree. 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) 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. James appears to have software which can do everything we need, and Russel has offered us a server to run it on. Is there anything more we need to get started? I don't think so. If James and Russel could spend a bit of time getting the code working on his server, maybe someone else could work on building an interface for it's search engine. I can work on the legal entity, and try to chip in a bit on coding if needed, though I warn you my field is embedded controllers not network servers so non time critical coding tasks might be best for me. If this is agreeable to others perhaps someone else could suggest an appropriate time line. cheers, darryl

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James appears to have software which can do everything we need, and Russel has offered us a server to run it on. Is there anything more we need to get started?

I'm doing some hardware shuffling, and will try to ensure that there is a more dedicated machine that can be put to this task. The idea will be to have a machine that we can set up shell accounts on and push these types of projects forward quickly.

I'm wanting to offer what I can, but also wanting to ensure that there are no dependancies on my time given I have a few projects underway and already get too easily distracted.

If you need a backup/standby sys admin, let me know. -- James

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