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Thanks for the input. I've been monkeying around open source long enough to know veeeery well that "Suggesting [...] is 0.0000001% of the work towards that goa

Thanks for the input. I've been monkeying around open source long enough to know veeeery well that "Suggesting [...] is 0.0000001% of the work towards that goal" , and I've been culprit of that myself :) . Still, I like SE a lot and might be interested in doing the work. So, I'll make my point to the ML (expanding on A. points I brought here, and B. contradictions that you and other commenters wrote, thanks), asking if folks are convinced by the vision, and asking for technical advice to build the incremental path. Then if there's agreement, maybe I, or someone else, will commit to it.

hombre_fatal 6y ago
Fair enough. But SE's creator is simply going to recommend that you fork the project. Not that I speak for them, I've just been following the project long enough to see the interaction many times. It's also the only avenue that makes sense. As I said in a sibling comment, I've been working on a Spanish-language version of SE and I have some good ideas of how the tool chain could be parameterized for multi-language support, but it also feels like a pointless cherry on top (and a complication of an already non-trivial workflow) to bring everything under one umbrella. And it would require a loss of control for SE's creator. I recommend epub'ing a few book scans yourself in your preferred language and starting a project around that. You'll find other people who have at least started a fork themselves that you might be able to round up under one org. I personally have aimed for 10 ~finished books and a domain name that hosts my own style guide + tutorial to prove that I'm serious about it (to myself) before I publish my efforts. And you need as much to appeal to any would-be contributors. I think the only plausible place to be in 5 years is for a couple major sister projects to reach maturation and then form a sort of ring of "Check out lettres-libérées.org for a similar project for French works."
- ronjouch 6y ago
  acabal (SE's maintainer) answered, and you were right :) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145829 . Thinking about it! Thanks for the advice.

hombre_fatal 6y ago

Fair enough. But SE's creator is simply going to recommend that you fork the project. Not that I speak for them, I've just been following the project long enough to see the interaction many times. It's also the only avenue that makes sense. As I said in a sibling comment, I've been working on a Spanish-language version of SE and I have some good ideas of how the tool chain could be parameterized for multi-language support, but it also feels like a pointless cherry on top (and a complication of an already non-trivial workflow) to bring everything under one umbrella. And it would require a loss of control for SE's creator. I recommend epub'ing a few book scans yourself in your preferred language and starting a project around that. You'll find other people who have at least started a fork themselves that you might be able to round up under one org. I personally have aimed for 10 ~finished books and a domain name that hosts my own style guide + tutorial to prove that I'm serious about it (to myself) before I publish my efforts. And you need as much to appeal to any would-be contributors. I think the only plausible place to be in 5 years is for a couple major sister projects to reach maturation and then form a sort of ring of "Check out lettres-libérées.org for a similar project for French works."

ronjouch 6y ago
acabal (SE's maintainer) answered, and you were right :) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145829 . Thinking about it! Thanks for the advice.