[Html-ebook-devel] html-ebook project

[Eric H. <eha...@he...>]

Hi everyone.
It's been quite a while, as you'll undoubtedly notice.

I had hoped to be able to put moire time in the project this year, but life 
decided otherwise.
I eventually relocated in Brussels, and changed jobs as well.

I have been thinking about the project lately, and it appears I won't be 
able to spend as much time as I would like to with it in the near future, 
so I came to the conclusion that I'd better pass the project admin status 
to whomever is interested in pushing it forward.

What we have at this point is a description of a yet-to-be-created 
application, or framework, and a nice design document.
That's the itch to be scratched :)

Those of you who are familiar with copyright and DRM issues will no doubt 
understand the importance of creating a ebook reader standard that is 
opensourced and relies on open standards.

I recently discovered the joys of OpenOffice and its open file formats 
(just try it for yourself : go to openoffice.org, download the suite, open 
a ms word .doc file, save it as openoffice document, rename the resulting 
.sxw file in a ;zip file, unzip it, and oh surprise, it contains only plain 
text xml documents, that are fairly standard and portable.), they achieved 
here something very similar to what i had in mind when originating this 
process.

I intend to post an ad in sourceforge saying the project is looking for a 
new leader, next week., if no-one in the current developpers applies for 
the position.

I feel the project has not been evolving lately because it lacked me (or 
another project leader) to push things forward, attract developpers and get 
things done.

I of course welcome your advice and opinions on this :)

CU all.