Inspirations and Peers for Sutras (Online Library of Wisdom and Insight)

[rufuspollock]

Originally opened this issue Nov 3, 2021 (then moved to lifeitself community repo and thence back to here now)

• https://www.organism.earth/library - very nice (creator is the pseudonymous https://www.reddit.com/user/CuratorOfTheLibrary/) - contacted them on 3 Nov 2021 (see below)
• gitenberg - http://gitenberg.github.io
  • Knew seth quite well and talked with them a lot at the beginning (was kind of similar to openliterature aspirations at the time).
  • Project looks quiet since 2018 when they shipped their complete version see e.g. https://groups.google.com/g/gitenberg-project and launch announcement https://groups.google.com/g/gitenberg-project/c/DU-i7NnHMCE
  • have asciidoc'd most stuff from gutenberg e.g. https://github.com/GITenberg/The-Communist-Manifesto_61/blob/master/book.asciidoc
  • Person now behind it is https://github.com/eshellman - blog here https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com and email is eric [at] ebookfoundation.org (listed on his blog)

Contact with organism.earth

Hi there,

Came across organism.earth/library and really appreciated it.

I've been building open text websites for ~20y (see e.g. https://github.com/okfn/shakespeare/graphs/contributors - sadly openshakespeare.org itself is now offline).

Current one is https://sutras.lifeitself.us which has some significant alignment with your efforts.

Would love to chat a bit more about what you are up to. You can reach me via https://rufuspollock.com/contact/

Best,

Rufus