Scanning old documents (like EN)

[Batz Goodfortune]

Y-ellow Terry 'n' y'all.

At 04:51 PM 02/17/00 -0500, KA4HJH wrote:
>>Many hands make light work.
>>If you get enough people involved, then eventually it will be done.
>>And it only needs to be done once !
>
>Too many cooks spoil the pot--you need one graphic honcho in charge 
>of a project like this just to be sure!

The problem here, (sands for EN which I am distancing my self from lest I
end up like Rick Miller) is that we all have some unique resources. It's
really a case of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." Ooo errr Missuz.

I've got a collection of stuff here that would make interesting viewing. As
would other people. I'll be scanning mine in due course. Scanner arriving
any year now. Honest... :) I'll probably have OCR software as well. Though
I've never done any of this stuff so I'm not sure how it would go. The
problem with OCR software is that you have to painstakingly go back and
correct for the stuff it didn't understand. Perhaps that could be left to
an army of editors?

So by default, this will be a case of "many hands." with over tones of
"Many cooks".

But one of the first things I wanna do (And this is the first Harry's heard
of it) is beef up the Capacitor FAQ into a complete reference. I'm hoping
to scan a heap of cap pix out of cattledogs etc. Then fit faces to the
names as it were. Then hopefully put it all into PDFs.

Now this is where my real interests lie. Not just with Caps but with
anything else. Quick concise and to-the-point references that just get
straight to what you want to know with the minimum of fuss. 

I'm probably the Mixer designer of the group so I hope to get the time to
make something of a definitive article on that along the lines of Harry's
Cap FAQ. The one I use to have on my site was pretty popular but I thought
it was too hastily slapped together and not terribly accurate.

I would like to see all these kinds of things go onto a web site somewhere
and be accumulated onto a CD-ROM

I suggest this is the way we work.

Anyone can come up with contributions to the CD. (And I expect there to be
some good valve stuff on there too BTW)

It gets shoved onto a site somewhere. It'll probably stay there for a short
time (A month or two) before it get's ripped into the CD collection. So the
site can be quite small and everyone can collect their own CD over time.

However eventually the CD will be a complete work and become a
distributable Item. The terms and conditions of such distribution is
unclear at this time but is up for discussion.

Does  this sound like a plan????

I see two distinct CDs here. 1-the most important- the Synth DIY CD-ROM and
2 A CD full of collected and interesting articles found in the care of
synth DIY members.

Thanks in advance.

Be absolutely Icebox.

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