Comments on: news of note http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/ free audiobooks ... by everyone, for everyone Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:16:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: tis http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-117 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:36:03 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-117 hugh - my experience with wmb would suggest that 1,000 hits per day is close to enough to make the hosting pay for itself, if you are prepared to put a google ads banner on the page. So I'll donate the hosting (enough for a blog, podcasts, a bulletin board, plenty of storage and loads of bandwidth) if we can include such a banner to defray the costs. hugh - my experience with wmb would suggest that 1,000 hits per day is close to enough to make the hosting pay for itself, if you are prepared to put a google ads banner on the page.

So I’ll donate the hosting (enough for a blog, podcasts, a bulletin board, plenty of storage and loads of bandwidth) if we can include such a banner to defray the costs.

]]> by: hugh http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-115 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:22:27 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-115 hey chris, yes plan is to get hosted, though my pereference is to have someone donate hosting ... perhaps we can find server space (as well as audio space) on archives.org? Once we settle on specific specs of what we want/need we can put out a call and see who jumps to help. re: hosting, there won't be too much memory required, since the site itself we be just used to manage the volunteers, catalogue and to provide one (or several) podcast feeds ... Though if things pick up at LibriVox there may be lots of traffic (we had 10,000 hits on the boing boing day, and we're still getting about 1,000 a day). anyway, all this must be put down in some more specific detail, which we hope to do soon, so anyone who wishes to help out will be more than welcome. hey chris, yes plan is to get hosted, though my pereference is to have someone donate hosting … perhaps we can find server space (as well as audio space) on archives.org? Once we settle on specific specs of what we want/need we can put out a call and see who jumps to help.

re: hosting, there won’t be too much memory required, since the site itself we be just used to manage the volunteers, catalogue and to provide one (or several) podcast feeds … Though if things pick up at LibriVox there may be lots of traffic (we had 10,000 hits on the boing boing day, and we’re still getting about 1,000 a day).

anyway, all this must be put down in some more specific detail, which we hope to do soon, so anyone who wishes to help out will be more than welcome.

]]> by: Chris http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-114 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:21:06 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-114 hugh - great. Are you planning to get it hosted? A lot of the stuff I think you want to do (for instance, kirsten's two requests @#4) are pretty straightforward if you are running on a decent hosting company (ie one that lets you run WordPress properly). I've set up a few WordPress blogs before, and I'd be happy to do it again; I'm also fairly sure I know how to write plugins to meet kirsten's request. The company I use for my stuff is phpwebhosting.com, and I'd highly recommend them; they aren't very expensive ($10 per month?) and let you do pretty much anything you like. I'm sure there are lots of other options too. [I have no association with phpwebhosting except as a customer] hugh - great. Are you planning to get it hosted? A lot of the stuff I think you want to do (for instance, kirsten’s two requests @#4) are pretty straightforward if you are running on a decent hosting company (ie one that lets you run WordPress properly). I’ve set up a few WordPress blogs before, and I’d be happy to do it again; I’m also fairly sure I know how to write plugins to meet kirsten’s request.

The company I use for my stuff is phpwebhosting.com, and I’d highly recommend them; they aren’t very expensive ($10 per month?) and let you do pretty much anything you like. I’m sure there are lots of other options too.

[I have no association with phpwebhosting except as a customer]

]]> by: hugh http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-113 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 05:13:21 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-113 oh, and to chris: i bought www.librivox.org yesterday! hugh. oh, and to chris: i bought www.librivox.org yesterday!

hugh.

]]> by: Branko Collin http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-103 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:52:35 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-103 Hugh, you created a monster! I know a little bit about Smarty and PHP, but don't know if I have the time to help out much. Perhaps if anybody wants to talk through things on IRC or Jabber, I could spare an hour or so. What I missed while reading Conrad was a place to collect wisdom on how to best read, edit and save my chapter. A wiki would be nice, even if it were just temporary. Hugh, you created a monster!

I know a little bit about Smarty and PHP, but don’t know if I have the time to help out much. Perhaps if anybody wants to talk through things on IRC or Jabber, I could spare an hour or so.

What I missed while reading Conrad was a place to collect wisdom on how to best read, edit and save my chapter. A wiki would be nice, even if it were just temporary.

]]> by: kristen http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-101 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:19:50 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-101 I'd sort of like to avoid hacky things, as they tend to come back and bite you later on--especially in a volunteer project where volunteers of various skills replace one another with some frequency. If we can find solutions within the software we're using, that's a more elegant way to proceed and easier to maintain later on. I’d sort of like to avoid hacky things, as they tend to come back and bite you later on–especially in a volunteer project where volunteers of various skills replace one another with some frequency. If we can find solutions within the software we’re using, that’s a more elegant way to proceed and easier to maintain later on.

]]> by: hugh http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-100 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:43:23 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-100 oh yeah, and kristen, using an rss feed of specific-tag del.icio.us links is hacky way to get stuff you want in the sidebar, though with the traffic we may generate here, the delicious folks may not be too happy about that. still, can work temporarily until we come up with better solutions. oh yeah, and kristen, using an rss feed of specific-tag del.icio.us links is hacky way to get stuff you want in the sidebar, though with the traffic we may generate here, the delicious folks may not be too happy about that. still, can work temporarily until we come up with better solutions.

]]> by: hugh http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-99 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:37:04 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-99 guys, just have a minute tonite, but some comments: tis, like the idea of having the project as community-driven as possible ... put onus on a "book booster" to get friends & neighbours to record chapters. we could award "stars of public domain excellence" for the most completed books in a month. say the top 5 subscribed books automatically get listed as to-do books on the main page, other books you need to search for a little. also: for now, I think our real target is readers, rather than listeners, though I may be wrong, so lets be careful to keep the volunteer info visible. ie, I'm not sure if we should relegate volunteer info to the sidebar in this format yet... also, kristen in the "books" sidebar section, we can just have the 5 latest completed books ... and maybe the 5 books under construction. I think that's it for now ... gotta get to bed! later. guys, just have a minute tonite, but some comments:

tis, like the idea of having the project as community-driven as possible … put onus on a “book booster” to get friends & neighbours to record chapters. we could award “stars of public domain excellence” for the most completed books in a month. say the top 5 subscribed books automatically get listed as to-do books on the main page, other books you need to search for a little.

also: for now, I think our real target is readers, rather than listeners, though I may be wrong, so lets be careful to keep the volunteer info visible. ie, I’m not sure if we should relegate volunteer info to the sidebar in this format yet…

also, kristen in the “books” sidebar section, we can just have the 5 latest completed books … and maybe the 5 books under construction.

I think that’s it for now … gotta get to bed!
later.

]]> by: kristen http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-98 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:24:25 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-98 Chris/tis, consider yourself recruited. Let's talk to Hugh a bit more about details and figure out the best way to proceed. We've got limitations with our hosting at the moment, and we're just finding our way regarding how to manage the project (book selection/voting, scheduling, archiving and all that!) . But we will find it together. Thank you! Chris/tis, consider yourself recruited. Let’s talk to Hugh a bit more about details and figure out the best way to proceed. We’ve got limitations with our hosting at the moment, and we’re just finding our way regarding how to manage the project (book selection/voting, scheduling, archiving and all that!) . But we will find it together. Thank you!

]]> by: tis http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-96 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:25:37 +0100 http://librivox.blogsome.com/2005/09/15/news-of-note/#comment-96 Oops. 'tis' (#5) is the same person as 'chris' (#1) Oops. ’tis’ (#5) is the same person as ‘chris’ (#1)

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