One of the problems in the creation of a Fractint collection would appear to be the creation of a "soft" copy of "Fractal Creations". Now I have only the First Edition, but I tested the feasibility of using OCR to make that soft copy available. Just a couple of pages conviced me that this is do-able, altough a lot of work is involved. My question is...is it worth doing? If anyone would be interested, I might just go ahead and acquire the Second Edition, and plunge into the task. John Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:31 PM Subject: [Fractint] FractInt Collection -- Volunteer Project ??
Paul N. Lee wrote:
Tim Wegner wrote:
Along the same lines, an easier approach would be to put Fractint on a bootable CD with freedos. ........... We could make a Linux bootable CD that ran Xfractint.....
The CD could also contain a complete collection.....
This would make the CD something like a "Deluxe Colletor's Edition". Or if ready by this August, a "16th Year Anniversary Edition".
Well, we now have four individuals willing to devote an amount of time to this effort of putting together some aspect of a CD concerning FractInt. It would take way too many more people to do this as an anniversary project for this year, so establishing it as a collector's edition might be the most reasonable choice.
Besides trying to get volunteers that are willing to devote a good deal of time to some area of the project, coordinating those volunteers will also need to be handled through some mechanism. It could be done through a new and separate email discussion list, where everyone involved could know what is going on and the current status of the project.
Also, a central collection site for the depositing of generated material would need to be established. Probably the easiect to setup, maintain, and have access to, by a variety of participants, would be an FTP location on some reliable server.