[Gwm-general] Printing the Documentation

[Craig Morehouse]

Dear Guy;

	I read the announcement by Hemos on slashdot, (though it didn't give your 
name, just a link), and may have something to contribute...

	Last month, I incorported a non-profit Operating Foundation whose mission 
is to print Public Domain or Public Licensed books, manuals and 
documentation. The name of the firm is The Foundation Project Inc., and 
it is located here in Winter Park, FL. (That's adjacent to Orlando). The 
EIN is 59-3756886.

	I have two missions in mind here; one is to take the Project Gutenberg 
library of 4,156 Public domain books, translate them into professional 
quality PDF's, produce them with On-Demand technology into 6" x 9" Trade 
Paperbacks, and sell the whole library for a flat fee of $5 a book. And 
of that $5, $1 will be handed back to Project Gutenberg for processing 
more books and increasing the size of the library. Right now, it is 
growing at the rate of 100 per month. We can quadruple that rate this 
way. This reference might help..
http://www.sandriod.org/GutenMark/Foundation.html

	The second thing I want to do is to make available documents and manuals 
that are produced under the GPl as professionally printed and bound 
volumes, orderable from the website, with a price under $10. (These 
works will be in 8.5" x 11" format, and will be bigger on average than 
the Project Gutenberg books. Hence the higher price). However, as above, 
$1 of each piece printed and sold will be sent back to the firm that 
produced it.

	This will open a source of funding for the Open Source world that doesn't 
exist now.

	I just wanted ot get your attention here. If you'd like to pursue this 
further, by all means, do so. We seem to have a commanality of interest.

        Craig Morehouse
        Executive Director,
        The Foundation Project Inc.
        3007 George Mason Ave.
        Winter Park, FL 32792
        407-678-9256
        address@hidden
                


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