Thank you so much, Viktor for your kind invitation!
I really like the
let's read together part. Was it there before?
At the moment this forum has to parts. The upper part is where we'll do the LV work, the lower part is Viktor's old forum, also about recording books of free text, but not directly LV related. This is not the German translation of the upper part.
Regarding the LV part - this is English only at the moment, I would like to make some suggestions:
I'd really like to have subforums for other languages, not for the actual work but for information, suggestions, questions, ...
When we look at LV, English is the strongest language, followed by French, Dutch and German with about the same activity. That the number of German recordings in the catalog is so high, does not mean the Germans record so much more than the French and Dutch. It's because each single recording in the Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa (German Short Story Collection) counts 1 in the database. 31 collections with 10 or 15 recording = more than 300 plus. Dutch actually is one of the strongest languages.
So I think we should have subforums in every language we have a repayable person who is willing to look after.
French - Nadine (neckertb) and Viktor(?)
German - Hokuspokus and Viktor (?)
Dutch - kattekliek (would you like?)
Portuguese - Leni (?)
The actual working topics should be all in one subforum, tagged [LANGUAGE]. I don't think we need extra subforums for Short Works, Books and Drama. I guess we will have 3-5 active projects in each language. They would all fit in one "Readers Wanted" subforum.
Book Suggestions and Listeners & Editors Wanted should go to each language subforum.
If you like this suggestion, I *think* I can find my way through the machinery and make it.
Another thing I'd like to do different from LV is the work of the BC. I'd like to have the BC being the DPL for their project as a rule. There might be cases when the BC can't do that, or when the BC records some chapter himself. In these cases other PLers can be found.
The work flow is so much better when the BC does the PL. I always do that with my BC projects.
If we do it that way and as long as we don't have some sort of uploader, the readers could send their recordings by mail directly to the BC.
The BC could check tech specs, correct ID tags and other small issues, and when the project is complete, send it to the MC or even directly upload it to the final host, depending on how we will host the files. Maybe all the MC has to do, is generating some sort of catalog page.
As kattekliek suggested over at LV, it might be a good idea to make smaller files. The 64 kbps version automatically generated be Archive sounds reasonably good. But I wouldn't want to go smaller than that.
To bring our recordings to the attention of the listeners, we could add them to Open Library
http://openlibrary.org/
Adding the online source there (if not already there) would help them to improve their data, too. It is not that complicated.