[Hplusroadmap] more oscomak/skdb/appropedia fodder

[ben lipkowitz]

today i stumbled upon "cd3wd"[1][2] which i suppose stands for "cd of 3rd 
world development educational materials" - apparently it's a howto manual 
for (re)building civilization, more or less. I was particularly interested 
in the appropriate technology and metalworking sections for integration 
with oscomak/skdb, but that's just me.

thanks sleekfreak.ath.cx! ur the best

anyway, this blob of html and pdf is about 13 GB compressed, and that's a 
bit more than the 700MB CD in the torrent, so i'm wondering whether i 
should spider the (only) complete mirror[3] or not.

and re-seed the complete collection as a torrent.
or should i just leave the whole thing alone and forget about it?

or: most of the data is in the form of scanned, non-ocr'd pdf files. 
presumably it could be compressed by a factor of a hundred or so with good 
OCR software or djvu. (there are a lot of diagrams) and then re-seeded as 
a complete torrent. OCR would be preferable to djvu of course.

it would be neat to actually put this stuff on a wiki where people could 
modify, reorganize, etc.. appropedia are you listening?[4][5] alex the 
creator/aggregator had in mind what he calls an "offline wiki" which 
frankly doesnt make any sense to me at all, so he might be helpful and 
friendly to the idea of turning it into a real online wiki but just didn't 
have the resources/cluefulness.

splort
   -fenn

[1] http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/3wdev/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
[2] http://www.cd3wd.com/CD3WD/index.htm
[3] http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
[4] i guess so: "ported with permission from various publications,
     including some content from CD3WD" but i'm underwhelmed.
[5] http://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia_talk:Village_pump#Porting_CD3WD_Pages