----- Original Message ----- From: James Linden <jlinden@projectgutenberg.ca> Date: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:59 pm Subject: [PGCanada] Re: Gutenberg site
Copying the existing sites from PG-USA or PG-AUS is a poor way to get a website up. Their sites are static and hell to maintain. I personally have no intention of building yet another headache. If we can wait a few days, I'll be back home and we can get something better going.
Don't know about the site structure itself, but there are certainly a good many PG-US and PG-Aus titles which will qualify for inclusion in a PG-Can site; and many of them, at least on PG-US, are actually CanCon. So whatever the structure, I do hope we'll pilfer the content for all it's worth! ;)
Wallace J.McLean wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: James Linden <jlinden@projectgutenberg.ca> Date: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:59 pm Subject: [PGCanada] Re: Gutenberg site
Copying the existing sites from PG-USA or PG-AUS is a poor way to get a website up. Their sites are static and hell to maintain. I personally have no intention of building yet another headache. If we can wait a few days, I'll be back home and we can get something better going.
Don't know about the site structure itself, but there are certainly a good many PG-US and PG-Aus titles which will qualify for inclusion in a PG-Can site; and many of them, at least on PG-US, are actually CanCon.
So whatever the structure, I do hope we'll pilfer the content for all it's worth! ;)
The etexts are not part of the site itself... we can certainly pilfer them. :-) -- James
I'm happy with whatever other want as long as we can get something in place. I'll do all I am capable of to keep it moving. That is really the only reason I suggest what I do. My background not being web development, I don't feel I can competently build a site up from the ground; but I probably can copy someone elses and change it. I'll defer to you James. How long will you be back in this neighbourhood for? cheers, darryl FYI: I'm in Aurora, so if you need local help with servers and such (what I'm capable of any way) I can come up there. James Linden wrote:
Wallace J.McLean wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: James Linden <jlinden@projectgutenberg.ca> Date: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:59 pm Subject: [PGCanada] Re: Gutenberg site
Copying the existing sites from PG-USA or PG-AUS is a poor way to get a website up. Their sites are static and hell to maintain. I personally have no intention of building yet another headache. If we can wait a few days, I'll be back home and we can get something better going.
Don't know about the site structure itself, but there are certainly a good many PG-US and PG-Aus titles which will qualify for inclusion in a PG-Can site; and many of them, at least on PG-US, are actually CanCon.
So whatever the structure, I do hope we'll pilfer the content for all it's worth! ;)
The etexts are not part of the site itself... we can certainly pilfer them. :-)
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I'll defer to you James. How long will you be back in this neighbourhood for?
A long time hopefully... I'm getting married up there. :-)
FYI: I'm in Aurora, so if you need local help with servers and such (what I'm capable of any way) I can come up there.
We'll have to get together sometime then. -- James
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Wallace J.McLean wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: James Linden <jlinden@projectgutenberg.ca> Date: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:59 pm Subject: [PGCanada] Re: Gutenberg site
Copying the existing sites from PG-USA or PG-AUS is a poor way to get a website up. Their sites are static and hell to maintain. I personally have no intention of building yet another headache. If we can wait a few days, I'll be back home and we can get something better going.
Don't know about the site structure itself, but there are certainly a good many PG-US and PG-Aus titles which will qualify for inclusion in a PG-Can site; and many of them, at least on PG-US, are actually CanCon.
So whatever the structure, I do hope we'll pilfer the content for all it's worth! ;)
Setting up a system for the exchange of "life +50" eBooks should go a long way to helping gather content for all it's worth. . . . We have already purchased the domain name pgcc50.net for this purpose, and any of you are welcome to it. PGCC = Project Gutenberg Consortia Center or Project Gutenberg Copyright Center Clearinghouse. . .or whatever you decide. Again. . .my HUGE thanks!!!!!!! Michael
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Wallace J.McLean wrote:
Don't know about the site structure itself, but there are certainly a good many PG-US and PG-Aus titles which will qualify for inclusion in a PG-Can site; and many of them, at least on PG-US, are actually CanCon.
Assuming that newcomers have not seen me mention it before, please take a look at the list of Canadiana in PG I've compiled: http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~sly/cancon.htm and please let me know of any more titles that would be appropriate to add. Spreading word to the DP Team Canada about it might be nice too. Andrew
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