Troy, I have to state, as a (fairly new) module developer, that I agree 100% with Matthew. Quite frankly, your response makes me feel like the contributions of those putting together modules is not *really* valued by the project.
CCEL is not really a good option, in my opinion. Over the years they have worked to further and further restrict access to marked up files. I am encoding works that are in the public domain and I want them to be freely accessible to *everyone*. CCEL seems to have different goals. I don't blame them, I don't know their funding sources, their organization, or their reason to exist. They have every right to claim copyright on the markup of public domain texts (I think). But I don't want to be a part of that. My goals are different. I had thought that they were in line with the Sword's goals. It seems not. Brian Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Dear Matthew, > > I understand that you wish CrossWire were the host of authoritative > content. We do not currently have the infrastructure to do this, nor do > we currently wish to do this when organizations like CCEL exist. As > stated in my previous email, Harry Plantinga, who runs CCEL, attends > most of our OSIS conferences. His team has even written a (now defunct) > OSIS MSWord plugin. At one time, he even attempted to allow his > documents to be obtained in OSIS format using XSLT transformations. He > created ThML long before OSIS existed and my hope (though somewhat > waning) is that someday he will adopt OSIS as his pristine source > markup. But even if not, I know his team strives to push their > documents toward very well conforming and unambiguous ThML. This makes > conversion much easier for us. There have been times our users have > produced new material here at CrossWire and we have almost always > submitted that material to CCEL for hosting, maintenance, and further > development. > > I am sorry that you disagree with this policy, but it is currently our > policy. Please know that I have heard your disagreement. > > -Troy. > > > > Matthew Talbert wrote: > >>> There are other organizations who are dedicated to being authoritative >>> text sources. One of these organizations is CCEL, with whom CrossWire >>> has a very good relationship. We want to encourage their ministry, as >>> they have encouraged our ministry. If there is not a good document >>> source for a particular area of interest which you feel the need to >>> contribute toward. Please join CCEL and produce your work there. >>> >> This thoroughly confuses me. As far as I can tell, CCEL works with >> ThML. I understand from recent discussions that Crosswire will accept >> ThML from CCEL but no one else. However, if Crosswire is promoting >> OSIS why would you encourage us to go to CCEL? >> >> I do not think that Crosswire's goal of promoting OSIS (particularly >> as represented by Chris in these threads) is compatible with the >> policy of not maintaining sources. >> >> I also do not feel this policy accurately reflects the value of the >> module library to the Sword Project. I was just told in a private >> email that the module library was one of the most valuable parts of >> the project, which attracted people who would otherwise go elsewhere. >> In addition it was mentioned that the value of this library was why >> sources were not made available, because other projects could too >> easily use them as well. >> >> I do not see how these policies line up with the official goals of the >> Crosswire project either. However, I do thank you for the >> clarification on all of this, and your very clear rejection of >> community input. It has made it quite clear to me that I have been in >> the wrong place. >> >> Goodbye and God bless, >> >> Matthew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > >
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