hi Thanks for your suggestions, Michel. More comments in line...
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Michel Bauwens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Dear Christian, > > concerning this paragraph: > > "Our project is an open source project. We need someone to take > responsibility for transcribing the video. We have 360 hours of video. We > cannot transcribe and translate all of that video ourselves! We need help! > " > > Could you not write an appeal, that we could publish in our p2p foundation > resources (and others in theirs). > Yes, actually, I could write up an appeal. Oddly enough, the first appeal would be for people who would like to kill wiki spam for us. We need to build up our wiki community so that we can undo damage to our wiki. We had so much wiki spam that our database collapsed, and we lost lots of hours of work, due to the fact that we are an all-volunteer group, and we didn't have the resources (expert time) to back up our data regularly. We do have a back-up that is several months old, and we are in the process of getting that back-up. We are in the process of recovering that data now. As soon as I get ahold of our back-up, we can begin the process of putting out an appeal for spam-killing volunteers. We can't really go forward until we get our wiki back in shape. There is a plug-in, I have heard, that we can apply to make it easier to maintain a wiki. We are also looking at using a forum instead of a wiki. Right now, our work is focusing on rough editing the video, since we can still do that work while waiting for the solution for our wiki problems. The second appeal would be for rough video editors. We need people to send us external hard drives (internal drives won't work, because there are too many variations on machines to support internal hard drives) and then we will load video onto it for those people to do the basic clean up work. They would then email me the Edit Decision List, which is a tiny XML file, and then I would use their edit decision list to generate an edited .dv file, which I would then compress and put up onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video Collection. http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint Thanks again for your help! -- Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
