[Hplusroadmap] more oscomak/skdb/appropedia fodder

[Antonio Marcos]

Very interesting! I would certainly download that.. im interested in the metalworking too btw. I would say get the complete version, but if you check that(13G) it seems like there are other version there: Spanish.. frech.. even in the middle of the english one.. (it says "below is the spanish version").. i didnt get why its mixed up this way.

by the way, i like the idea of offline wiki, but only in the sense that people would have individual copies of it.. modifications would be uploaded to the server, and downloaded by everyone else. This way we have plenty of backup =]

[]
Mark.

--- Em sex, 23/5/08, ben lipkowitz <fenn at sdf.lonestar.org> escreveu:
De: ben lipkowitz <fenn at sdf.lonestar.org>
Assunto: [Hplusroadmap] more oscomak/skdb/appropedia fodder
Para: hplusroadmap at heybryan.org
Data: Sexta-feira, 23 de Maio de 2008, 6:00

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
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