January 18, 2008
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Issue #3: January 18, 2008
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)
Contents |
Most amusing/astonishing line
Our first contribution is from Gironina (Gill):
January 6, 2008--"This morning I have just come across the following, in Marcia's [Warmheart (Ed.)] excellent project The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 4, now in P2 (from the section on John Sandfield Macdonald):
Quote: He was somewhat uncouth in his language at times, and given to quoting liberally from the Athanasian Creed in ordinary conversation.
Not funny in itself, it was the juxtaposition that made me goggle and then giggle.
Salut, Gill"
[Editor: John Sandfield Macdonald (1812-1872) was a contemporary of Sir John A. Macdonald. John S. Macdonald was the first premier of Ontario.]
Simple Simon was inspired to verse, or at least doggerel:
He was somewhat uncouth In his language in youth And given to quoting, at need When out for a walk, Or, in everyday talk, From the Athanasian Creed.
Editorial
ÜberProjects--We now have an ÜberProjects wiki page. Check it out here. We intend to have subpages for each ÜberProject that we do and it is where you will find a general description of the project along with current and future plans. As well, there will be general alerts and instructions for proofers, formatters and PPers so that we can have overall consistency within an überproject while allowing for more than one PM and/or PPer.
Revisions to the Proofing Guidelines--Simple Simon and IonaV started on draft revisions this week. They will be revising the Guidelines to comply with DPC's proofing requirements and, hopefully, making them more understandable to both old and new DPers. After the Proofing Guidelines have been revised, they will then revise the Formatting Guidelines.
Artists of words and drawings--have you seen our contest? We need your creativity. Due to lower than expected response, we're extending title and tag-line contest deadlines for another issue. So if you want to participate and haven't yet done so, you still have time.
Newsletter by email--If you recall, in the last issue, we had promised to start sending out the newsletters by email; well..., there have been some glitches.... (So what else is new?) We will get them out soon, I promise. I'll post a note in the forum post just before we send them out.
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.
ÜberProject #1: Chronicles of Canada
Volume 29: The Day of Sir John Macdonald has finished all the proofing and formatting rounds; though that's not too surprising since we don't have as many books on the go as does DP-Int, but then we don't have as many proofers and formatters either. IonaV sends her thanks to all who helped to proof and format.
Currently Simple Simon is doing the PPing. Having fun, Simon?
We have set up a wiki page specific to The Chronicles of Canada ÜberProject here.
We will not be doing Volume 13: The United Empire Loyalists nor Volume 24: The Family Compact; these were written by W. Stewart Wallace. Unfortunately, he is not in DPC's purview as he did not die until 1970. As both books were originally published before 1923 they should be PD in the U.S. Does anyone know of a DP-Int/US PM and/or PPer who would be willing to handle these volumes and get them posted to PG-Int--we would provide support.
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 Title Contest:
"DP Canada Newsletter" is rather bland, don't you think? I could use your help to devise a better one. Something French/English or English/French or ... but it must still mean "newsletter" in some fashion. Send a pm to Quill by January 30, 2008. I'll then publish the list and you all will be allowed to vote on the proposed names.
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 Quill by February 12, 2008 and then we can all vote on the results. If you use wording from someone else (living or dead), please be sure to provide the applicable credit.
Calling all artists and wannabe artists:
Simple Simon has suggested a mascot for the newsletter and I thought, why not a mascot for the DPC site? 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. Closer to the deadline (probably sometime in February), I'll provide a link for uploading your finished entries. All entries should be properly credited.
For the above contests, you may get the assistance of anyone for ideas, but be sure you give your assistants credit for their part.
We Grow Every Day
We are now up to 280 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 thank them for their continued support and interest in DPC. (Numbers are accurate up to "press" time.)
| New | |
|---|---|
| January 2008 | 43 |
| December 2007 | 142 |
| to Nov. 30, 2007 | 95 |
| Total to date | 280 |
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. January daily goals have been increased to 100 pages for each round--for a monthly goal of 3,100 pages per round. Based on December's results, I think that we will have no problem reaching the goals. For final December numbers, please see Issue #2: January 4, 2008.
P1 has already exceeded its goal for January at 120%. Way to go, guys!!! ... Now ... can you keep up the pace?
What about the rest of the Rounds? We're just over half way through the month: P2 is almost there at 98%; while P3 is at 67%, F1 at 70%, and F2 at 77%. Come on, people, you can't let P1 get too far ahead--or will it be the old "tortoise and hare" routine ... leaving everything to the last few days? Hmmm?...
| Round | P1 | P2 | P3 | F1 | F2 |
| January goal | 3,100 | 3,100 | 3,100 | 3,100 | 3,100 |
| *January to date | 3,745 | 3,040 | 2,086 | 2,171 | 2,405 |
| January % | 120.81 % | 98.06 % | 67.29 % | 70.03 % | 77.58 % |
- Numbers accurate to "press" time.
For more statistics and related links go to: Statistics Central
Books In Process And/or Posted To PGC
Our first book of the New Year was posted to PGC on January 10, 2008. At press time, we had 11 Gold Star books posted to PGC (with 2 in PPV).
There are currently 21 Silver Star projects in post processing and 28 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 another 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.
Currently we have 12 teams with Team Canada still in top spot.
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....
