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Re: conlang.org

From:David G. Durand <david@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 17, 1999, 16:43
At 6:10 PM -0400 8/16/99, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, David G. Durand wrote: >Wow! Great! I'd prefer an org domain to a com domain anyway. Do you know >whether >someone has taken conculture.org, already?
I'd guess not.
>> One is perhaps to provide webspace to conlangers. As that will probably >> involve using at least bandwidth, and perhaps disk space from my employers, >> this may be a problem.
>Conlangs could be very space intensive - I'm not at a tenth of my Grammar >of Denden, and the audio files already take up nearly a meg. I'd love some >more space, though - we're very near the end of our 15mb we have in Amsterdam. >We'll be on the cable, too, next year. If I were a company, I wouldn't like >hosting 10 mb of Denden sound files...
Well, we've got a lot of spare space at the moment. And I might be able to set up my own server on their T1, w/ at least 1GB storage. Disk is cheap.
>> I've wanted to do dead-tree publications of some Conlang-related material, >> Matt's grammar (and maybe others), Rick Morneau's book on verbs, and so >> forth. I'd love to have a series of nicely produced conlang reference >> grammars. This project requires money, both for startup, as well as a >> market for the books themselves. >> > >This could be difficult to do - I've been on the team that once produced >(and got into a bookshop) the Yearbook of the Nederlands Genootschap voor >Linguafictie, and it was a hard job. Anyway, I'd prefer CD-Rom grammars, >myself, since I firmly believe paper, beautiful is it is, isn't really >suited to language descriptions. On the other hand, to have the Grammar >of Tokana standing next to the Grammar of Dumi...
That's the thought. Self-supporting is probably out of the question, but if we could sell the books for $10-15 at only a small loss, it'd be worth it for the list memebers alone. I'm not talking about a real business here. I don't think the market is big enough, and conlangers' pockets deep enough.
>I'd be willing to work on this. I've already made a list of recommended >books, and even thought of referring to Amazon. I like messing around >with bibliographies...
I think we'll pursue this one, as a databasey kind of thing.
>> >> I'd like to have another database that lists "official" conlang pages, for >> conlangs on the web. If we once aggregate the information in the many >> bookmark lists we've all published, we could make keeping them up to date >> much easier, as the site owners could change the URLs when necessary.
>Excellent idea. I don't have much of a list - I prefer to refer people >to Mathias list of conlangers. This is something that would be really >useful.
right. The idea is to harvest the work out there and make an infrastructure so that we can share the labor of keeping it up to date.
>These two are perhaps a bit overkill - once we are an 'Amazon associate', >a bank account would be a good idea. I'd transfer the measly sum we've still >left from the defunct Nederlands Genootschap voor Linguafictie as soon as >there's one for conlang.org.
That's a generous offer. I'll see about the account next week sometime, and we'll see if we really need much money anyway... -- David _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Director of Development Graduate Student no more! \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://www.dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________