LibriVox

[a.r.dobbs]

* * * * * * * Ongoing * * * * * * *
* * * * * * the UPDATE-ification of LibriVox * * * * * *
* * * * * known earlier as August Docurama * * * * *
* * * * * in celebration of Another Year of Here * * * * *
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Dear LibriVoxers, in this thread, please ...
* post links to helpful tutorials you've found online,
* make suggestions for needed tutorials and guides,
* and especially make announcements about wiki pages you're creating or updating
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Though this effort gotta be ongoing, the initial, August 2006 Update-ification of the guides was inspired by the LibriVox new year, which also inspired this little poem, if you will...

On August 10, 2005
a great idea came alive:
from hugh to you, her, him, me, too,
it grew to blossom and to thrive.

In August of two-thousand-now you
notice we've a hundred how-to
documents -- it is immense,
the pile that newbies plow through!

If we would all just
take this August
to uppen the dates and freshen the sawdust,
our guides and our stickies,
our web and our wikies,
would glitter and glember by this time September.

This LibriVox poem is in the public domain.
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Anita
Slacker MC -- it takes all kinds
"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything"
William of Ockham (1285-1349)

[a.r.dobbs]

I've freshened up a wiki page on how to get your files to LibriVox:

http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/HowToSendYourRecording

Would anyone have time to look it over and suggest additions/ changes/ deletions/ jokes/ illustrations ? If you can wiki, you're welcome (of course!!) to directly improve the page. Advance thanks!!
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Anita
Slacker MC -- it takes all kinds
"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything"
William of Ockham (1285-1349)

[Caeristhiona]

[chocoholic]

Lovely poem, Anita.

Would you like to add the FireFTP option for those using the Mozilla Firefox browser? Here's the link: http://fireftp.mozdev.org/
It's a free ftp add-on for Firefox. I've had no trouble with it at all.
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Laurie Anne

[knotyouraveragejo]

I second the FireFTP addition. It's free, easy to use (runs in a new tab within firefox) and has good documentation http://fireftp.mozdev.org/help.html
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"Where the human mind cannot explain or prove, there it invents; preferring a semblance of knowledge to its total absence." - Ribot

[a.r.dobbs]

[a.r.dobbs]

Any more suggestions for the How to Send your File to LibriVox wiki page?
http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/HowToSendYourRecording

Planish had some observations about the Magic Window/Box that will help us polish it up a wee bit:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9812

If you've been meaning to write or add to a wiki tutorial about any aspect of recording or prooflistening or editing, this is a great time give it a go.
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Anita
Slacker MC -- it takes all kinds
"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything"
William of Ockham (1285-1349)

[a.r.dobbs]

I've begun updating this page in the wiki:

http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/HowToRecord

And I invite your assistance, questions, suggestions. Those who wiki, dive in if you want! Those who don't want to edit the wiki but want to make suggestions -- please do!

Our how-tos are at the very beginning of update and consolidation... should be looking very good by month's end, but may be like a house being remodeled in the meanwhile. Oh, and this is a All-Help-Appreciated project, a Anyone-Who-Wants-To-Can-Help--Thanks! project.
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Anita
Slacker MC -- it takes all kinds
"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything"
William of Ockham (1285-1349)

[a.r.dobbs]

Another excellent suggestion:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9831

to use an external stylesheet rather than embedding our style on each forum page (and web page? must go look)

Our August DOCURAMA title focuses on updating the documentation around here, but the push is broader than that -- it's a push to clean up, straighten up, spruce up the place. So this stylesheet suggestion is another excellent clean-up idea.
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Anita
Slacker MC -- it takes all kinds
"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything"
William of Ockham (1285-1349)

[hugh]

go anita!

I'm planning to go thru the non-wiki stuff on the main site (eg public domain etc)... guess we should make sure that the wiki and main site agree with each other.
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hughmcguire.net |bookoven.com

[ChrisHughes]

Remember to archive the old stuff for historical purposes.
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http://librilang.org

[a.r.dobbs]

[Janie No. 5]

Hey Anita and Gesine,

this is a challenging project I'll be happy if I can help you!
(@Anita: I simply LOVE your poem!!!)

I just stumbled over this thread and thought it very funny that August should be the month of cleaning and updating the wiki - especially as I made my very first attempt at wiki-ing on Friday...

For everyone who's interested, take a glimpse at: http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/PDPictureSources

Steffi
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She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

[a.r.dobbs]

Steffi, thank you!!
Starlite pointed out to me your great new page ... and I couldn't figure out where to link it from, and realized I needed to change the first wiki page to add something about pictures and CDs and... well, we still have to figure out what the best way to organize that would be. (Reminds me -- must get higher level access in order to edit that top page)

It will be great to have your help!!
While we're going through the first pass, my own wish would be to have feedback on any page you find particulary important to update. Perhaps you could make a wiki page of clean-up commentary, where you could link to a page, copy and paste or otherwise refer to confusing / out-dated parts, or even point out what's particularly clear or helpful in existing pages so we'll have good examples, as well.

I'm not wiki savvy myself -- oh, I can wrestle the code, but I only know the basic functions. Gesine's the whiz.

More tomorrow!
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Anita
Slacker MC -- it takes all kinds
"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything"
William of Ockham (1285-1349)

[Ticktockman]

Hi Anita,

Enjoyed listening to you on LVCP.

I very much enjoy http://www.transom.org/

Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more.

I just started using Audacity, and found (but have not yet read) this:
http://www.transom.org/tools/editing_mixing/200404.audacity.html

So I guess I'm trying to give a little to get a little

What d'ya think?

Thanks,
TTM
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. -- Henry James