Re: CP CD-ROM

Rick Walker (walker@cutter.hpl.hp.com)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 14:26:26 -0800

Carl Mazur writes:

> I talked to one kid today, he's real anxious to get involoved. I've got
> him hooked on CP, and he can't get enough CP information. This would be
> a great "learning moment" as I like to call it, or should I say "learning
> eon". It'll take abit of time!!!
>
> ...

> I'm sure if some templates are developed for the online CPN
> format, that a number of our talented HTML writers could take on a volume
> or so.

I'd be happy to write a template. It would be fairly simple with
not much more than titles, headers, and paragraph tags. The key
thing would be to come up with a good indexing strategy for the
articles and photos.

> That would certainly take the burden of you (Rick). Anyway, we I
> think is a great idea, and I'll certainly do my part. Just a suggestion,
> If there is anyone else out there who has access to a colour scanner and
> OCR software, and would like to help, please let me know, maybe we could
> coordinate effors privately to decrease the amount of time this will take.

You might contact Michael Homick <greyston@mailhost.Oxford.net>
who recently wrote me with an offer to do some scanning and OCR
work.

There have been several other people who have written me privately over
the past year or so. We've just been waiting until "critical mass" of
interest was generated. I'll go back through my mail and see what names
I can pull out.

But please, if you've contacted me in the past, and are still interested,
- please speak up! All volunteers are welcome. We need as much creative
input as we can get.

Best regards,

--
Rick Walker