Hi Greg,
Thanks for expressing your interest in this and sharing the vision! :)
POC = Proof of Concept?
I'll come back to you personally.
Best regards,
Tobias
On 12.03.19 23:44, Greg Hellings wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 5:12 PM Tobias Klein <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I'm following up on the last thread that I started. Who would be
interested in actively supporting the following idea:
- Develop/set up an online platform that sells non-free Bible
translations as locked Sword modules
This is, technically, trivial. I've created at least two functional
POCs in the past that would create a customized download with a
uniquely locked key for every "purchaser" (the POC part came in that
it didn't actually transact money).
- Establish a non-profit that becomes a Library Card Holder @ The
Digital Bible Library (DBL)
Sounds like a lot of paperwork.
- Negotiate with Bible Societies to actually get licenses for
distributing specific non-free Bible translations
Sounds like even more paperwork.
- Develop a software that uses the DBL's REST API for
automatically creating locked Sword modules
If the DBL's REST API is reasonable and well-behaved, this would be a
very simple task as well. The programmatic creation of SWORD modules
from pre-parsed text is very simple and straightforward (the biggest
complexities in our module creation process comes from the rigid
nature of how we store scriptures on disk vs the great freedoms we
offer to module creators in the XML we accept and in the parsing of
the XML).
Anyone interested? We would need:
I am keenly interested. I believe that lack of modern English
translations is a huge detriment to the SWORD ecosystem. It's one of
the main reasons I don't use any of our apps on a regular basis. The
only thing that has stopped me, in the past, has been the social back
pressure from other members of the CrossWire community who, for
reasons still opaque to me, oppose the existence of a separate entity
that is not affiliated with CrossWire that distributes for-pay SWORD
modules.
Since I have print copies of all the modern English translations I
want, I have no true pressing need for such to exist, as much as I
really wish it did. Thus, rather than fly in the face of others in the
community to scratch my own personal itch, I have opted against such
and continue to solely use dead tree editions for reading and studying
and limit my digital interactions to search.
I foresee that you'll also find that many of our core, active members
are still of the opinion that such an entity would be a negative
thing. As I mentioned, I do not comprehend their objections but have
not made a strong effort to really find out why their objection
exists. It would, for me, be nothing more than a pet project more
answering the question of, "Is it possible, technically", and that
answer has already been given by my POCs for me.
--Greg
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