Comments on: Funding Goal Achieved: Thank You! http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/ free public domain audiobooks Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: emijrp http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-287082 emijrp Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:49:45 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-287082 Hi. This project is amazing. I have just know about it. Congratulations and keep up the good work. Regards. Hi. This project is amazing. I have just know about it. Congratulations and keep up the good work. Regards.

]]> By: leila http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285554 leila Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:11:42 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285554 I am delighted you reached your goal so rapidly! So many people in your organization work so hard-I love seeing good work rewarded. I also appreciate your sharing your "accounting" with the public. If all the organizations/politics of the world were so clear and clean this would be a much better world. Thank you for modeling behavior I can be inspired by! I am delighted you reached your goal so rapidly! So many people in your organization work so hard-I love seeing good work rewarded.
I also appreciate your sharing your “accounting” with the public. If all the organizations/politics of the world were so clear and clean this would be a much better world. Thank you for modeling behavior I can be inspired by!

]]> By: LibriVox Admin Team http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285429 LibriVox Admin Team Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:17:30 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285429 @Matt Stiltner We get most of our texts from Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive hosts our audio files (for free!). Many texts on Project Gutenberg are transcribed by volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders. So we should be delighted if you would consider supporting one of these organisations, which all help us in one way or another to produce more and more audio recordings: <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Project_Gutenberg_Needs_Your_Donation" rel="nofollow">Project Gutenberg</a><br /> <a href="http://www.archive.org/donate/" rel="nofollow">Internet Archive</a> <br /> <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/dpf.php" rel="nofollow">Distributed Proofreaders Foundation</a>. Thank you! @Matt Stiltner

We get most of our texts from Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Archive hosts our audio files (for free!). Many texts on Project Gutenberg are transcribed by volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders.

So we should be delighted if you would consider supporting one of these organisations, which all help us in one way or another to produce more and more audio recordings: Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive
Distributed Proofreaders Foundation.

Thank you!

]]> By: Mina Milad Aziz http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285427 Mina Milad Aziz Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:29:11 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285427 really thank you v.much to your friends, supporters, the donations managers, the idea creater and everyone work hard in this project. really thank you v.much to your friends, supporters, the donations managers, the idea creater and everyone work hard in this project.

]]> By: Matt Stiltner http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285425 Matt Stiltner Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:21:45 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285425 Is there a way that we can donate now? I have only recently learned of the Librivox project through Learnoutloud.com. I'm fascinated by the concept, and it was literally something I wanted to try for myself. Reading books, and recording them in audio format, so those with sight impairment can enjoy the works of the past, and hopefully more recently. If you could please respond and/or e-mail on how besides recording, I could donate a small amount of money to the project. Thanks again, and keep up the good work, everyone involved, from volunteers to the people behind the scenes. Excellent project, that deserves every bit of praise it gets. Is there a way that we can donate now? I have only recently learned of the Librivox project through Learnoutloud.com.

I’m fascinated by the concept, and it was literally something I wanted to try for myself. Reading books, and recording them in audio format, so those with sight impairment can enjoy the works of the past, and hopefully more recently.

If you could please respond and/or e-mail on how besides recording, I could donate a small amount of money to the project.

Thanks again, and keep up the good work, everyone involved, from volunteers to the people behind the scenes. Excellent project, that deserves every bit of praise it gets.

]]> By: Bryan Alexander http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285176 Bryan Alexander Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:07:26 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285176 Congratulations, Librivoxians! Congratulations, Librivoxians!

]]> By: Lucy_k_p http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285053 Lucy_k_p Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:52:00 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285053 Wonderful. Thank you everyone for your donations and kind comments. Wonderful. Thank you everyone for your donations and kind comments.

]]> By: hugh http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285045 hugh Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:36:48 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285045 Thanks Graham - funny you should say that. LibriVox came very explicitly out of thinking I was doing about using the web for (good) anarchist organizing ... and it was an experiment in applying these ideals/methods, successfully implemented in software dev, to a non-software problem. wikipedia of course blazed the trail, but what's interesting is how sustained and focused our efforts are: there is a beginning, middle, end to each of our books, unlike a wikipedia article, which is open ended; and further, there are very specific things that need to get done to have an publishable audiobook at the end. though i guess it should be said that there are hierarchies of a kind have been established, with rules and regulations and various kinds of mostly-benevolent, and entirely necessary "bureaucracy". still the approach has always been: -establish a clear goal -define certain clear perameters -and then more or less let people do as they please i used to call it anarchy with an iron fist, though things are very different now that LV is so established, with so embedded culture and "ways of doing things" ... and i guess we are far more rigid now than we used to be. Thanks Graham – funny you should say that. LibriVox came very explicitly out of thinking I was doing about using the web for (good) anarchist organizing … and it was an experiment in applying these ideals/methods, successfully implemented in software dev, to a non-software problem. wikipedia of course blazed the trail, but what’s interesting is how sustained and focused our efforts are: there is a beginning, middle, end to each of our books, unlike a wikipedia article, which is open ended; and further, there are very specific things that need to get done to have an publishable audiobook at the end.

though i guess it should be said that there are hierarchies of a kind have been established, with rules and regulations and various kinds of mostly-benevolent, and entirely necessary “bureaucracy”.

still the approach has always been:
-establish a clear goal
-define certain clear perameters
-and then more or less let people do as they please

i used to call it anarchy with an iron fist, though things are very different now that LV is so established, with so embedded culture and “ways of doing things” … and i guess we are far more rigid now than we used to be.

]]> By: Graham http://librivox.org/2010/03/09/funding-goal-achieved-thank-you/comment-page-1/#comment-285018 Graham Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:38 +0000 http://librivox.org/?p=9349#comment-285018 Congratulations on meeting your goal! I donated because I check librivox everyday and am embarassed that I haven't donated my time as well. Thanks to everyone for all your hard work and celebration of books, especially books that deserve to be better known. Trawling through librivox isn't just a chance to find a recording of something you know, but a chance to find out about books you wouldn't have known about otherwise. In my day job teaching political theory, I often cite librivox as a wonderful example of an online global community that makes individual initiative possible without hierarchy, so thanks for that too. Congratulations on meeting your goal! I donated because I check librivox everyday and am embarassed that I haven’t donated my time as well. Thanks to everyone for all your hard work and celebration of books, especially books that deserve to be better known. Trawling through librivox isn’t just a chance to find a recording of something you know, but a chance to find out about books you wouldn’t have known about otherwise. In my day job teaching political theory, I often cite librivox as a wonderful example of an online global community that makes individual initiative possible without hierarchy, so thanks for that too.

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