Thanks, José--you and other Hobbesians are of course very welcome to join us
on the Textop lists:

http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop
http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop-en-phil

We have chosen Hobbes' *Leviathan* as one of our first books to "collate,"
and we have at least two other genuine Hobbes experts involved to help at
least loosely oversee the pilot project at least with regard to *Leviathan*.

Best,
Larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hobbes@yahoogroups.com [mailto:hobbes@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of jose medina
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 5:01 AM
> To: hobbes@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [hobbes] Call for participation: Text Outline
> Project pilot
>
>
> Hello
> you are wright, the Hobbes group does not work very well. But
> I joined this
> group as a specialist in Hobbes philosophy ( I translated in
> french Hobbes
> de corpore) and teach english philosophy at Paris 12
> University. Your project is attractive. About Leviathan, May
> I recall that a great part
> of hobbes philosophy is in latin. For instance, in political
> philosophy you
> have the famous de cive he did not translate himself!.
> I think the sources could be internal (other texts by Hobbes)
> and external
> ( classical references such as: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero,
> Aristophane ....) we could add references to well known
> scholar debates in a precise
> bibliography.
> best regards
> josé Médina
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Sanger" <larry.sanger@...>
> To: <hobbes@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:44 AM
> Subject: [hobbes] Call for participation: Text Outline Project pilot
>
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm writing to post-B.A. philosophers interested in
> >
> > (1) philosophical texts (especially philosophical classics in the
> > English language),
> > (2) online collaboration, and
> > (3) free (*libre*) content.
> >
> > The Text Outline Project (or "Textop": http://www.textop.org) is
> > starting
> > up
> > a pilot for a new online collaboration that will "collate"
> philosophical
> > (and other) texts in a certain way. If you're interested,
> please join us
> > on
> > the pilot project's mailing list:
> > http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop-en-phil
> > and the general project list:
> > http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop
> >
> > The Hobbes connection is that the sample outline for the project
> > concerned Hobbes' *Leviathan*. See:
> > http://www.textop.org/outline_help.html
> >
> > Details follow. Please forward this as appropriate!
> >
> > ========
> >
> > THE PROJECTS AND ORGANIZATIONS: the project we're piloting
> is called
> > the Collation Project
> (http://www.textop.org/collation_summary.html),
> > which is a branch of the Text Outline Project , which is itself
> > affiliated with the Digital Universe Foundation
> > (http://www.dufoundation.org). Textop is a set
> > of projects, managed by a strong collaboration among a
> global group of
> > scholars, with the aim of organizing the information
> contained in books,
> > dictionaries, opinionated essays, and news articles--and
> perhaps other
> > sources--into a single outline of human knowledge. Like
> Wikipedia, it
> > will
> > be built by volunteers, and the result will be free and
> noncommercial.
> > Unlike Wikipedia, it will be an "open meritocracy":
> inclusive but led by
> > specialists.
> >
> > THE COLLATION PROJECT
> (http://www.textop.org/collation_summary.html),
> > the flagship, will analyze various public domain works studied by
> > scholars (e.g., Classics and history of philosophy) into
> approximately
> > paragraph-sized chunks; summarize the chunks; and place
> these chunks
> > into a single outline. Each node of the outline will not have more
> > than, say, a half-dozen chunks, so the outline will be constantly
> > expanding. This will provide a single reference point for comparing
> > the detailed content of scholarly works from throughout history and
> > eventually, it is to be hoped, more recent works as well.
> >
> > THE PILOT PROJECT: The pilot for the Collation Project will
> *probably*
> > take
> > place on a wiki (http://www.textop.org/wiki), which is
> where you can read
> > a
> > detailed plan for the pilot project. Where and how the
> pilot will take
> > place remains to be decided by a rough consensus of the
> philosophers who
> > show up on Textop's English language philosophy list:
> > http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop-en-phil
> > Later, we'll be using not a wiki but specially-written open source
> > software
> > that this community will help design.
> >
> > For logistical reasons, we are going to start with philosophical
> > classics
> > in
> > the English language, in the public domain, such as Bacon's
> *Essays*,
> > Hobbes' *Leviathan*, Hume's *Enquiries*, and Russell's *Problems of
> > Philosophy*. Longer list: http://tinyurl.com/fw546 We
> will choose a
> > small
> > number of these works to "collate," based on who shows up.
> >
> > BACKGROUND LINKS:
> > We have an impressive Advisory Committee, including several
> > philosophers: http://www.textop.org/advisory_committee.html
> > Top-level summary: http://www.textop.org/textop_summary.html
> > Proposed screenshot: http://www.textop.org/screenshot.html
> > Project manifesto: http://www.textop.org/TextAndCollaboration.html
> > Example outline: http://www.textop.org/outline_help.html
> > Letter: http://www.textop.org/letter.html
> > Proposed software requirements: http://www.textop.org/reqs_v1.html
> > Textop general mailing list:
> > http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop
> >
> > PROJECT DIRECTOR: I'm probably best known as co-founder of
> Wikipedia,
> > but I've been organizing Internet projects of one sort or another
> > since 1995. I started the Association for Systematic Philosophy,
> > Tutor-L (about college tutoring and degrees by exam), Reid-L (about
> > Thomas Reid's *Inquiry*), and SEK (about Bonjour's *Structure of
> > Empirical Knowledge*), as well as Nupedia
> > and Wikipedia (see
> >
> http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213).
> I earned my
> > Ph.D. in Philosophy (dissertation in epistemology) from
> Ohio State in
> > 2000.
> > I am now employed as Director of Collaborative Projects for
> the Digital
> > Universe Foundation in Scotts Valley, California.
> >
> > WHAT NEXT? Do join us here:
> > http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop-en-phil
> > And here: http://lists.dufoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/textop
> >
> > --Larry
> >
> > ----------------
> > Dr. Larry Sanger
> > Director, Text Outline Project
> > Director of Distributed Content Programs, Digital Universe
> Foundation
> > 100 Enterprise Way, Suite G370, Scotts Valley, CA 95066
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