December 3, 2010
From DPCanadaWiki
Volume 3, Issue #78--December 3, 2010
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)
DPCer of the year for 2010
Before Quill can get the first word, I’m very pleased to announce that the DPCer of the year for 2010 is … drum roll, please…
No modesty, please now, Iona, this is well-deserved and perhaps long-overdue. Iona is involved in virtually every aspect of DPC’s operations, and does them all superbly well. It’s often said "we’re all volunteers--even Simon", and that’s true.
But Iona is the only one of us all who has to meet constant deadlines, and does so--78 times in a row now!!!
"Quill" has produced our Newsletter for three solid years--always on time, always entertaining, regularly informative. Hey, I learn stuff about DPC in here. And she’s cheerful, upbeat and friendly--all values that are highly valued at DPC. I received several nominations for Iona from all areas of the membership, and I’m sure you’ll all agree that this award is properly directed.
So, please all of you join me in congratulating Iona on her award as DPCer of the year for 2010.
Cheers
Simon
DPC's 3rd Anniversary
by Simple Simon
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, was officially the 3rd Anniversary of DPC’s creation. We didn’t manage to get a celebratory project off the ground for the occasion, but I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen in years to come (maybe Quill can remind me).
We members of DPC have accomplished so much in our first three years, it would be difficult to list all the landmarks. On the other hand, the Newsletter does a very good job of reminding us of the individual and Team landmarks as they tick by.
The most important thing is that we continue to operate, at a slowly accelerating pace, producing extremely high quality e-books, of which I personally am very proud … and we remain good friends. From my point of view, the DPC community has gone way beyond collegial--I feel that many of you are close friends of mine, who also share a number of goals that I believe in fervently.
To those who worry about Google Books and other influences on the e-book field, I say "be of good cheer!". We provide an excellent service, the rise in popularity of e-books, and the probable ubiquity of e-book readers in the next few years, will only make e-books of older public domain writings, available free, even more in demand.
And, when we launch our display site, we’re going to go to extreme lengths to publicize our activities and offerings, so that more people enjoy more DPC e-books.
If you have ideas about what we should achieve in the coming year, please share them in the forums, or write a short paragraph for the Newsletter, or PM me--whatever you’re comfortable with. Just don’t suppress those ideas--they are the objects that are in the shortest supply.
Simon Says...
Last week I read a book. ... Now there's a revelation, considering I read about 3 books a week. ... I don't mean proof-read, I mean read. It's not an accident that another of my pseudonyms, besides Simple Simon, is inhaleprint. I contracted the reading disease from my mother over 60 years ago, have never recovered, and am widely considered a carrier of the disease.
The book is a mystery—it contains revelations, and puzzles and parables and predictions. I bet you think I mean the Bible, or the Qu'ran, or some other book of ancient faith and miracles. But no--this book is modern, and we cannot turn it into an e-book, since the author is very much alive.
Here is a quotation from it--I think you'll sense immediately that the book speaks very directly to what we at DP do.
- "Time is a river…and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following."
We drag books that are lost on the River of Time back onto the shore, then set them up to serve as pinnacles of enlightenment, inspiration or enjoyment.
Although organizations like Google claim to be doing the same thing, the comparison is spurious. In the case of modern books that have always existed in electronic form, their re-publication in e-book format is valid and useful (let the publishers argue about the fairness of the process). But for older books, the scansets Google produces are dreadful; so far from being a source of enjoyment and enlightenment, they may actually discourage people from reading. They merely take the first step of the wonderful journey we participate in every day.
Enough philosophy--what about the book?
I recommend it to you. It is a least a fun read, may be a source of ancient information, or even wisdom. It could even inspire you, as it has done me, to greater determination to preserve the content of books for the future.
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is available at a library or bookstore near you.
Amongst many other by-products of that reading, I will shortly produce a list of the books and sources mentioned within its pages, and will then make an attempt to dig them out for further action by DPC.
Cheers
Simon
Special Requests
Attention all CPers (current and potential) and PMs
Any more projects out there?... Maybe sitting on your computer?...P1 Waiting queue is getting thin again--it seems that DP-Int had a hiccup the other day and a bunch of our DP "cousins" came to visit. <<grin>>
Any available or potential PPers?
We can always use PPers; there are about 120 projects in the queue--a lot of very short BEGIN projects have entered the PP Pool. There are only a few in the PPV queue ... Simple Simon is very good about picking up projects to PPV in order to keep that queue as short as possible ... Can't post anything if there is nothing to PPV....
Lots of choices depending on what you like:
- easy, average, hard;
- history, biography, fiction, humour (or is that "humor" :wink:), folklore, periodicals, science, military, juvenile and other genres;
- most are in English, but there are several in Portuguese, one in German, one English with French and one in Spanish (at least at the time of writing);
- the regular projects range in size from about 45 pages to over 800 while the BEGIN projects range from 2 to 18 pages;
- a number of them have illustrations.
There are also several that have been sitting in the PP pool for a year or more. Any takers?
We're always looking for new PPers. If you are interested, drop by any of the PPing-related forums:
For those people who are interested in learning how to PP, the BEGIN projects are an ideal way to do it. The projects are very short and have few if any illustrations or other formatting requirements. Since the projects are short and simple, re-doing them is very easy.
Please remember, there are several experienced PPers who will give some direction if asked. Lostpaces has offered to mentor new PPers so you are not alone. Check out her forum discussion thread: Would like to PP? Check here. Or send her a PM.
The Snow Drop project has one week to go. Deadline is November 25. We've only had 2 submissions, any others out there?
"Snow Drop" Project Update
from Simple Simon
I have received 2 submissions for this project and will now proceed to PPV them. Then, either Adair or I will report back to you, possibly as soon as the next issue.
New Forum Threads for November
Do you ever check the DPC Forums Index to see if there are any new topics that might be of interest to you?... I'm not talking about project discussion forums, but forums related to CPing, PMing, PPing, general topics, even new User Team forums, etc., etc., etc. Have a peek at some of them; maybe you'll find an answer to that question that you haven't gotten around to asking or weren't sure if you could or should ask it.... Or maybe you'll find a post that will give you a giggle or two.
In November, we had the following new, interesting, forum threads created:
Editorial
DPC's 3rd Anniversary--Has it been 3 years already?! We've been having so much fun, it seems like only yesterday that DPC officially started.... If you want to include your congrats, see this thread...
Attention CPers--Thank you to those who responded to De2164's need for more projects. However, we can always use more.
Jesuit Relations Project--Volume 65 is now in Smooth Reading. Simon has added an additional week (to December 7). He'd really appreciate lots of input on this project.
Book Count--450 books and counting ... As PPers must still complete about 50 projects (there are a number waiting for posting at PGC) we won't likely see number 500 before the end of the year. So we should be more realistic and hope for our 500th book during the first quarter of 2011.
As an FYI: We reached our 100th book in December 2008 and by December 2009, we'd done 250 books!!! Should we have a special book--all rounds done in 1 day as we did for 1st anniversary book in December 2007? Or do you have any other ideas? Suggestions are needed, people. Please send your suggestions to Quill or Simple Simon.
DPCer of the Year--.... and the person is ... see above article by Simple Simon. And, yes, I'm blushing.... But thank you, Simon, and all those who nominated me. It's an unlooked-for honour. It's been great fun and I hope to continue doing so for years to come.
Display site--Do please provide Simon with any suggestions or ideas that you have. He's provided an email link (starlink @ rogers.com) so that you can send him comments that you don't want to write in a forum post. Any and ALL ideas, comments, suggestions, questions, etc. are welcome. I'm sure that there are more ideas out there.
Thanks to Tiena for starting a discussion thread--there are some good ideas. Even if you don't have an idea, your comments--pro or con--are always welcome.
New and/or recurring articles--Have you ever thought about providing an article or a paragraph or an idea for the newsletter? That's how new articles and/or series start and continue to appear.
Anytime you have a good idea for the newsletter, please drop Quill a line. You can write such offerings yourself or provide an outline to Quill for further expansion. Don't worry, Quill always edits articles for grammar, punctuation and/or spelling errors so no need to fret about how you've said something. You can remain anonymous if you wish.
Articles about authors or books that you worked on as a CP, PM, proofer, foofer and/or PPer; kudos and compliments, landmarks, quotable quotes, tips or hints that you think will help others, questions, anything related to DPC or PG is welcome. See the list of ideas at the end of the newsletter.
Membership--We're looking extremely good--currently at 997--and we will be welcoming our 1,000th member within the next week or so. As an FYI, although DPC's official launch date is December 1, 2007, our first two members--DPCanada and Simple Simon--signed up August 3, 2007.
So, what do you think we should do in celebration? A special project or ...?
PLEASE NOTE--Update--The "new" FAQs and non-English Guidelines that you can access through the FAQ Central page either have been or are being revised to be truly DPC versions.
Formatting Guidelines--Real Life can cause us frustrations, but Simon says that the updates are coming...
ÜberProjects--see the regular updates below. There's a good possibility that several more of our Chronicles will be posted soon.
Revisions to Guidelines, FAQs, etc.
Guideline Differences--Once we get our Proofreading and Formatting Guidelines updated, we intend to produce a wikipage with the differences between DP-Int and DPC Guidelines. One thing to remember though: one of the major differences between the Guidelines of the two sites is that DPC has organized our differently from DP-Int; so be sure to use the links at the top of the Guidelines pages.
Guidelines Summaries--IonaV, with the kind assistance of Long Green (aka Mama Beth) as well as stygiania and jjz (P3 and F2 Quals PFs respectively), is updating the Proofreading and Formatting Guidelines Summaries. She hopes to have them available soon. Once the revised Formatting Guidelines have been finalized, that summary will be finalized and uploaded.
ÜberProject #1: Chronicles of Canada
To see the current status of the volumes, check out the ÜberProject wiki page for The Chronicles of Canada here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/The_Chronicles_of_Canada
- De2164 and IonaV are prepping the rest of the volumes. Sufficient PMs have volunteered to handle all remaining volumes--we just need PPers, but the volumes can be picked up from the PP pool when they have completed the rounds unless there is a volume that a PPer really wants to do--in that case let the PM know sooner rather than later.
- We have borrowed "mint condition" copies of the full set and so will be able to get good scans of all the maps and illustrations as well as picking up missing pages (if any). Thank you to hugger1935 for the use of the books.
- P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; available for or completed post-processing: 14; posted to Project Gutenberg: 11 There are several in New Project being prepared for the P1: Waiting queue with one or two yet to be prepped. Of the projects in PP, a couple are at the PPV review stage and so should, hopefully, be posted in August.
- PP standards have been set and the books do not have anything extremely difficult at all. Check the Chronicles wiki page for the PP standards. Some of the standards for PPing have been updated.
- Volumes 13, 17 and 24 are being done at DP-Int since the authors of these volumes are out of DPC's copyright purview. They will be posted to PG-Int in due time. For those that are interested, Volumes 13, 17 & 24 are all in F2: Waiting.
- Eleven volumes have been posted to PGC and/or PG-International:
- Volume 1: The Dawn of Canadian History, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada,
- Volume 2: The Mariner of St Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier,
- Volume 3: The Founder of New France, A Chronicle of Champlain,
- Volume 5: The Seigneurs of old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism,
- Volume 8: The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760,
- Volume 11: The Winning of Canada, A Chronicle of Wolfe,
- Volume 12: The Father of British Canada, A Chronicle of Carleton,
- Volume 18: The 'Adventures of England on Hudson Bay', A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North,
- Volume 20: Adventurers of the Far North, A Chronicle of the Arctic Seas,
- Volume 27: The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841, and
- Volume 29: The Day of Sir John MacDonald, A Chronicle of the Early Years of the Dominion.
ÜberProject #2: Jesuit Relations
Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France; 1610-1791
Vol. 65: Lower Canada, Mississippi Valley, 1696-1702, is in post processing; though Simple Simon says that it has been a long, slow process. See Simon's article above. This volume is now in the Smooth Reading queue. If you are interested in SRing it, please download and enjoy.
This volume has taken longer to PP as he is setting up precedents and procedures for the PPing of this project. If you've done any work on any of the volumes either here or at DP-Int, you'll know that they are not simple.
Vol. 66: Illinois, Louisiana, Iroquois, Lower Canada, 1702-1712, is now in post processing.
Vol. 67: Lower Canada, Abenakis, Louisiana; 1716- 1727 is in F1: Available. Lots of "fun" with strange characters, old style French spellings and accents, bits and pieces of other languages.
Vol. 68: Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736 is in P3: Available. Again, lots of "fun" with strange characters, old style French spellings and accents, bits and pieces of other languages.
Vol. 69: All Missions; 1710-1756 is in P3: Available. More of the same strange characters with Latin as well as old French spellings and English.
A set of standards has been determined and added to the Project Comments. An ÜberProject wiki page for Jesuit Relations has been created. It includes the basic instructions for proofing and formatting.
ÜberProject #3: Governor General's Award Books
Warmheart has created an ÜberProject page for this uberproject. The page looks very good and has lots of links. You can see the details of what she has completed to date here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Governor_General%27s_Literary_Awards Check it out, you might find something interesting there....
There are only a couple of books that are available since many of the authors are still alive--ah, well, we'll get them eventually. :)
ÜberProject #4: Periodicals
Graham's Magazine
This was the first of our Periodicals ÜberProjects.
Second year--prep: 6; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 3; post-processing: 3; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0
First year-- ALL issues are posted to Project Gutenberg
Our Young Folks
An illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls
Issued monthly; Publication Dates: January 1865 thru October 1873 when it merged with St. Nicholas.
Volume 3: prep: 1; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 0; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0
Volume 2: prep: 3; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 1; post-processing: 8; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0
Volume 1: post-processing: 10; posted to Project Gutenberg: 2
Warmheart's wikipage for the Periodical can be found through this link: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Our_Young_Folks .
Scientific American
These are very early issues from 1846. The first issue has now been posted. Simon has more being prepped for proofing.
We've started a wiki page for it: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Periodicals/Scientific_American.
The Maple Leaf
This Canadian juvenile periodical was published between 1852 and 1854 for a total of 30 issues. IonaV is PMing and handling the prep. Susan downloaded the scans and will possibly do the PPing.
Volume 1 (6 issues): prep: 5; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 1; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0.
A wikipage has been created: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/The_Maple_Leaf
"Old Periodicals" Criteria
Remember, these aren't the only periodicals that we can do--there are lots of others out there and some that are quite unique. Is there one that you'd like to do? Suggestions for favourite OLD periodicals are always welcome, but they must meet 3 criteria:
- published earlier than 1865 to avoid the need for copyright checking
- good quality scans of a reasonable number of issues (preferably in whole volumes of 6-months or a year)
- interesting content, out of the ordinary, Canadiana, ...
ÜberProject #5: Works by Charles Dickens
Simple Simon and IonaV are Dickens fans. We know that there are many more out there. Although there are some of Dickens' works on the other PG sites, some of it is text only. We've got early editions of those books with illustrations as well as stories that have not yet been posted. As well, there are letters and essays and ...
- Bleak House, the original version illustrated by "Phiz", is in P3: Available.
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood is currently available for post-processing.
- A Christmas Carol, The Original Manuscript has been posted to Project Gutenberg.
- Two short stories for our anniversary blitz are posted to our wiki (http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Dickens_%22First_Anniversary%22_project): The Christmas Tree and What Christmas is as we get older. They will be posted to PG Canada with other Dickens' short stories.
More details and an ÜberProject wiki page to come.
ÜberProject #6: John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and military leader of Canada, and one of the true Canadian "Fathers of Confederation". This is NOT dull history either.
Projects about or by Simcoe in P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 1; post-processing: 2. Three have been posted to PGC.
ÜberProject #7: Gilbert (George) Murray
Gilbert Murray lived from 1866-1957. He was quite a prolific writer with some 90 odd titles to his name with 32 of them being translations of Greek dramas.
Status of these projects--post processing: 13; proofing/formatting rounds: 1; P1: Waiting: 0; in prep: ? Posted to PGC: 0.
Miscia has created a wikipage which will be a work in progress naturally: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Gilbert_%28George%29_Murray_%281866-1957%29
ÜberProject #8: Art Latcham Magic Collection
This new ÜberProject has been launched--see the update for more details.
Status of these projects--post processing: 1; in prep: 1.
This is sort of in limbo until Simon can acquire a high speed scanner as he is the only one who can prep the books.
All "magic" lovers should enjoy these books. If you know of anyone who likes magic and who are not members of DPC, be sure to let them know about this upcoming ÜberProject.
And if you want to be really involved with the project in some way: prepping, PMing, PPing, managing the ÜberProject wikipage or any of the tasks listed in the Simon Says... article above, just send Simon a PM and let him know.
We Grow Every Day
We are now up to 997 members. Welcome to all new members; I hope you find some projects that you will enjoy doing. Many of our members are also members of DP-Int/US and/or DP Europe--we welcome them and thank them for all their continued support and interest in DPC. (Numbers are accurate up to "press" time.)
| New | |
|---|---|
| December 2010 | 2 |
| November 2010 | 25 |
| October 2010 | 18 |
| 2010 Q3 | 39 |
| 2010 Q2 | 56 |
| 2010 Q1 | 62 |
| 2009 total | 321 |
| 2008 total | 235 |
| 2007 total | 239 |
| Total to date | 997 |
Milestones
We are going to use this space to "celebrate" notable milestones achieved by a member, team, group or project. For example, we'll report when a member completes 5,000 pages in any one round; then we'll let you know when they've done 10,000 pages and so on.
The "team" numbers are the cumulative totals for each round for each member while they are members of a particular team. So that's why, the team pages go up whenever a team member's totals increase. Another reason to join a team or two....
Completed 75,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 70,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F2 NEW!!!
Completed 65,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 60,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 55,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 50,000 pages in a round:
- no one at present...
Completed 45,000 pages in a round:
- uwe-joachim in F2
- Team USA in P3
Completed 40,000 pages in a round:
- Ex-Pats in F2
- Team Canada in P1 NEW!!!
- P3 Pros in P3 NEW!!!
Completed 35,000 pages in a round:
- rolands in P3
Completed 30,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F1
Completed 25,000 pages in a round:
- Drama Team in P2 NEW!!!
- P2 Expediters in P3
- Team Canada in P2
Completed 20,000 pages in a round:
- Miscia in F2
- Scribe in F2
- Drama Team in F2 NEW!!!
- LOTE Flotes my Bote in F2
- Team Canada in F2
Completed 15,000 pages in a round:
- hugger1935 in P2
- RCEberwein in F1
- snowseraph in P2
- stygiania in P3
- Drama Team in P1 and P3NEW!!!
- Team Canada in P3
- Weather Reports in F2 NEW!!!
Completed 10,000 pages in a round:
- Antigony in F1
- Bibi in P3
- cmspence in F2
- De2164 in F1
- GIMadore in P1 NEW!!!
- hugger1935 in F1
- Marmaduke in P3
- rcool in P1 and P2
- Drama Team in F1
- Foofers' Corner in P2
- Team Canada in F1
- Team German in F2
- Team USA in P2, F1, and F2
Completed 5,000 pages in a round:
- Adair in F1 and F2
- Daniel G in P1
- gmiller in P2
- goofball in P1
- hazeleyeflgal in F2
- hugger1935 in P1, P3 and F2
- jadrien in P3
- literagnu in F1
- mcbax in P3
- Miscia in P2, P3 and F1
- Pippin in F1
- RCEberwein in P1
- snowseraph in P1
- stygiania in F2
- supo88 in P2
- Warmheart in P2 and F1
- yajeulb in F1
- DPing with Cats in P1, P2 and F1
- Foofers' Corner in P1 and P3
- Illustrators in F1
- Infomaniacs in P2 and P3
- P2 Expediters in P2 and F2
- P3 Pros in P2 and F2
- Team British Columbia in P1, P2, P3 and F2
- Team français in P1, P2 and P3
- Team German in P2, P3 and F1
- Smoothies (aka Team Smoothy) in P2
- Team UK in P1, P2 and F1
- Team USA in P1
And how many pages have been done in each of the rounds? Naturally, F2 will be at the bottom since they are the last round that gets the projects before PPing and P1 will be on top since they get to start all the projects. <grin> Another consideration is that P3 or F2 stats may be slightly smaller if the PM/PPer has skipped his/her/their project through either one or both of those rounds. So let's see where each round was at the end of November:
- P1 completed over 194,000 pages
- P2 completed over 178,000 pages
- P3 completed over 155,000 pages
- F1 completed over 156,000 pages
- F2 completed over 151,000 pages
Great work, people!!!
Proofing & Formatting Stats
WOW!!! All rounds have met and exceeded their November targets with a couple above or very close to 200%. Way to go, proofers and foofers!!!
For December: well,... we've only just started 3/31 days = 9.68% ... P1, P3 and F1 are just below target while P2 and F2 are ahead of target. However, we'll have to wait for another 2 weeks to see how the rounds are really doing--a couple of days are not really a good gauge as to how the rest of the month will progress. There will be 3 reporting issues this month--the last being the last day of the month as well as the last day of the year ... that will be an interesting report.
| Round | P1 | P2 | P3 | F1 | F2 |
| December target | 3,410 | 3,410 | 3,100 | 3,410 | 3,100 |
| *December to date | 305 | 733 | 238 | 297 | 422 |
| December to date % | 8.94% | 21.50% | 7.68% | 8.71% | 13.61% |
| November target | 3,300 | 3,300 | 3,000 | 3,300 | 3,000 |
| November final | 6,578 | 6,846 | 3,610 | 4,029 | 4,486 |
| November final % | 199.33% | 207.45% | 120.33% | 122.09% | 149.53% |
*Numbers accurate to "press" time.
For more statistics and related links go to: Statistics Central.
Books In Process And/or Posted To PG Canada or PG-International
At press time, we had 450 Gold Star books posted to PGC or PG-Int. Fantastic work, everyone!!
There are currently 145 Bronze Star projects which are undergoing proofreading or formatting with another 22 waiting in the queue (not including the BEGIN projects). There are 445 Silver Star projects in the various post processing stages with 180 being post-processed and 118 waiting for PPers; the balance consists of those that have completed post processing and are awaiting posting at PG or are parts of projects that have been or will be merged which is why the Silver Star numbers are extremely variable. For more details about the posted and/or active projects, please see the listings on the DPC Welcome page.
User Team Talk
Have you checked out our user teams? To check out the teams or to join one go to: User Teams. The Team threads are located under Proofing Team Talk. Is there a team that you'd like to see? You can create a team from the link on the User Teams page--you might be surprised by who shows up to join you.
We have 29 teams; more are always welcome.
Possible Future Articles
This is YOUR newsletter: yes, there are forum posts and user team posts, but is there something that you want to tell the whole DPC community? You are allowed to brag here. You can also be anonymous if you choose ... we won't tell.
- Tips or Hints: for those people who do/did a lot of proofing and/or formatting on DP-Int/US &/or DP-Eur, do you have any tips or "rules" that you follow to help yourself while you proof or format? Even a re-wording of a guideline that helps you remember how to do something specific.
- Tell us why you joined DPC.
- Quotable Quotes: have you seen a thought-provoking quote that is relevant to the DP Community while you were doing your proofing that you just had to pass on?...
- The most interesting, outrageous, or strangest line you proofed: before it was proofed (if that was the outrageous or strange part) and what it was after proofing (please do not submit obscene language, it will not be published).
- New projects: PMs is there a series of books or books by a very prolific author that you'd like to do?--let us know so that we can help pass the word to the proofers so they'll be there to jump in and work on them.
- Kudos, Bouquets & Compliments: are there any DPers that you would like to give special thanks and/or recognition to: a mentor who gave you lots of guidance, a PPer that made your project into a very wonderful looking book for posting to PG, a CPer or image/text preparer who went the extra little bit to provide you with clean scans, well OCR'd text, or good illustrations for your project, another DPer who made you feel really welcome or provided you with some good advice or....
- "Guest articles" by anyone and everyone who wishes to....
