February 15, 2008
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Issue #5--February 15, 2008
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)
Entries for DPC Newsletter Title
There were 3 entries: The Beaver Bulletin, DP Canada communiqué, and graffitti. The winner by a very large margin was The Beaver Bulletin.
Of course, we'll need to add a French translation since Canada is officially bilingual and the final name (starting next issue) will be: The Beaver Bulletin / Le Bulletin de Castor. Thank you very much to stygiania who submitted the entry.
Now that we have a newsletter name, we need a tagline and an appropriate mascot....
Editorial
Another Milestone!--On Saturday, February 9, our 100th project was created! All the hard work of the proofers and formatters has caused the Content Providers and Project Managers to work overtime so that there were more projects available. DPC is barely 12 weeks old!! Fantastic work all.
And Another Milestone!--Our 300th member joined February 11. Welcome, welcome, all, to our happy and very busy DP community.
Revisions to the Proofing Guidelines--Simple Simon and IonaV are working on draft revisions--not an easy job I understand. They are revising the Guidelines to comply with DPC's proofing requirements and, hopefully, making them more understandable to both old and new DPers.
Artists of words and drawings--have you seen our contests? We've got all our entries for the Newsletter Name contest. However, we still need your creativity. The Newletter Tag-line deadline is March 12, 2008--get your ideas in....
New article: Featured Book--this issue we are starting a new article. Alternating with our Simon Says... articles, we'll feature a book that has completed the rounds and has been posted to PG Canada. This issue's featured book was one of the two "first day" offerings and was also the first book completed by DPC and posted to PGC. The article was submitted by Renaldc who was both PM and PPer. In future issues, we will feature other books that have been posted to PGC.
And talking about Simon Says..., he advises that next issue he's going to talk about why he became a DP volunteer. You, too, are invited to write similar articles/stories/paragraphs--you don't have to even use your alias. You can send a pm to either Simple Simon or Quill and we will NOT pass on your identity if you do not wish it.
Be sure to read the next issue due out February 29--we've a very special announcement that is directed at all our newbie DPers.
Check out the list of "possible future articles" at the end of the newsletter--are you interested in contributing or do you know of someone who could, or would like to, contribute, we'd love to have your article and/or thoughts.
Featured Book
Relation Originale du Voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534
Le "Premier Canadien" raconte son "Premier voyage" au Canada. Il est donc approprié que ces mémoires fassent l'objet du "Premier eBook de langue française" produit par DPC et publié par PGC. Je remercie Carlo Traverso pour ce choix judicieux, et pour avoir fourni les documents images et textes qui ont servi à sa réalisation. Ce livre contient, en plus de la relation du voyage, une ample documentation sur les ressources bibliographiques utilisées par ses auteurs.
Les amateurs d'Histoire verront avec plaisir que la relation du deuxième voyage est aussi disponible dans le catalogue PGC, sous la forme de lien vers PG-INT. Quant au troisième et dernier voyage, je n'ai pas trouvé de publications en faisant état, autre que l'Histoire de la Nouvelle-France de Marc Lescarbot, qui relate également les deux premiers voyages. Le livre troisième est entièrement consacré à Jacques Cartier.
Premier voyage: http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/cartier-rel1534/cartier-rel1534-00-h-dir/cartier-rel1534-00-h.html (HTML version);
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/cartier-rel1534/cartier-rel1534-00-t.txt (text version)
Deuxième voyage: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12356/12356-h/12356-h.htm
Lescarbot: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22268/22268-h/22268-h.htm
Sources: Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec (deuxième voyage).
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica (les deux autres livres cités)
The "First Canadian" narrates his "First voyage" to Canada. It seemed appropriate to use his memoirs as the "First French Language eBook" to be produced by DPC and published by PGC. I wish to thank Carlo Traverso for this choice, and for providing the images and texts for this production. Besides the narration of the voyage, the book contains an ample documentation on the resources used by the authors.
History enthusiasts will be glad to find that the narration of the second voyage is also available in the PGC catalogue, as a link to PG-INT. As for the third and last voyage, I could not find a source other than "L'Histoire de la Nouvelle-France", by Marc Lescarbot. The third book is entirely devoted to Jacques Cartier.
Rénald Lévesque (Renaldc)
ÜberProject #1: Chronicles of Canada
Currently, Volumes 5 is currently in P3 and Volume 20 is ready for post-processing. Volume 29, The Day of Sir John Macdonald is almost ready to be posted to PG Canada; "thumbs up" to everyone who worked on it.
Volume 13 is currently in "P2: Waiting" on DP-Int--Warmheart will let us know when it's ready for P2 proofing. Thanks to all who worked on it.
There are still lots of spaces for volunteers to PM, PP and even CP. Check out the ÜberProject wiki page for The Chronicles of Canada here.
ÜberProject #2: Jesuit Relations
We've started our test volume (Volume 65: Lower Canada, Mississippi Valley, 1696-1702). Simple Simon is the PM and may PP as well. There has been some very interesting posts in the discussion forum mostly about how to proof the various non-standard characters. A set of standards has been determined and added to the Project Comments. IonaV will complete an ÜberProject wiki page for Jesuit Relations which will capture the basic instructions. lvl is PPing one completed volume on DP-Int and he and Simple Simon will discuss the PPing aspects at a later date. An ÜberProject wiki page is in the works for this ÜberProject.
Potential ÜberProject #3: Governor General's Award Books
Warmheart has created an ÜberProject wiki page for this potential uberproject. The first thing to determine is what books we can actually do. You can see the details of what she has completed to date here.
Contests / Competitions--Let Your Creativity Run Wild...
You've probably seen topic threads under the Promotion of DP Canada forum ... basically, how can we improve DPC? If you have any ideas, let us know. Simple Simon and coachmike won't make promises, but they'd like to know what you want to see improved and/or changed.
Newsletter Tag-line Contest:
I don't have one yet, or any ideas, do you? So start creating (yes, you can look up those old quotations that you learned in school for ideas ...). Send a pm to either Simple Simon or Quill by March 12, 2008 and then we can all vote on the results. And, I promise, no names will be released unless you want us to.
Calling all artists and wannabe artists:
Simple Simon has suggested a mascot for the newsletter and I thought, why not a mascot that can be used for the DPC site as well? After all, they already are asking for ideas to improve look of the DPC site. I did like his suggestion of a "beaver working on a book"; however, use your imagination. If some of you are "paper and paint/ink/pencil/pen" types and need help getting your creation into an electronic format, I'm sure one of our illustrator types or CPers would be glad to give you help or provide instructions on how to scan it. I've set up a folder on DPC's dpscans folder called "DPC_logos". We'll announce the deadline for the logos in March.
If you do not know how to access dpscans:
- You'll need to use an FTP program.
- Address: ftp.pgdpcanada.net; Account: dpscans; Password: Canada4 (note the uppercase C).
- You'll see a "home" directory/folder--double click that and you'll see "dpscans".
- Double click on dpscans and you'll see a listing of directories; scroll down to "DPC logos" and then drag and drop your image file(s) to that directory.
- You're done; so just disconnect from the ftp server.
If you do not already have an FTP program, you can try FileZilla (which a number of other DPers use since IE7 won't work): http://filezilla-project.org/download.php. Click on the version that you want (.exe or .zip). The .exe will give an immediate install. It's has a quite intuitive user interface; but if you've questions you can send either Simple Simon or Quill a pm for further help. Or if you're still not sure about doing the upload, you can send a pm to either Simple Simon or Quill and we'll arrange for getting the files from you and you'll still be anonymous.
We Grow Every Day
We are now up to 303 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 | |
|---|---|
| February 2008 | 8 |
| January 2008 | 58 |
| December 2007 | 142 |
| to Nov. 30, 2007 | 95 |
| Total to date | 303 |
Proofing & Formatting Stats
Our members continue to be very productive. Every day you continue to out do the goals set by Simple Simon and coachmike. February's goals are 2,900 pages per round. (It's a leap year, people; therefore, there is one extra day in February.)
P1 has the lead again. They are over 135% and we're just half way through the month!!! P2 is over 80%, P3 is over 52%, F1 is over 60% and F2 is at 36%. Great going, guys.
| Round | P1 | P2 | P3 | F1 | F2 |
| February goal | 2,900 | 2,900 | 2,900 | 2,900 | 2,900 |
| *February to date | 3,943 | 2,334 | 1,514 | 1,745 | 1,052 |
| February % | 135.97 % | 80.48 % | 52.21 % | 60.17 % | 36.28 % |
*Numbers accurate to "press" time.
One thing to keep in mind when we compare the numbers of pages done in each round: because some projects will skip P3 and/or F2 (for reasons you'd have to ask the PM &/or PPer about), the number of pages available for those rounds to work on can be less than the other rounds in any given time period.
For more statistics and related links go to: Statistics Central.
Books In Process And/or Posted To PGC
At press time, we had 23 Gold Star books posted to PGC (with 7 in PPV). Fantastic work, all; and many thanks to the PPVers who got them through.
There are currently 22 Silver Star projects in post processing and 43 Bronze Star projects which are currently undergoing proofing or formatting. For more details about these projects, please see the listings on the bottom of the DP 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 14 teams: Team Canada continues to be in top spot.
Our newest team is "P2 Expediters". Once they get the books out of P2, then we'll need more P3 proofers won't we....
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.
- 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.
- 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 & 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....
