Explicit Goals of DP

This is a list of the goals held by DP's volunteers. If you want to add a goal of your own, feel free to add it. If you would like to add your support to a goal already stated, just add an X next to it. If your goals are based on a role that isn't already stated here (example: LaTeX proofers), feel free to add that as well.

P1 Proofers

• Have a wide variety of different projects, and different kinds of projects available.
• Get prompt feedback from the PM when asking a question in the project thread.
• See diffs within a reasonable time.
• Receive acknowledgment when a particularly tricky bit of proofing is well handled.
• Complete the requirements to be able to work in P2/F1.

P2 Proofers

• Know that projects I've worked on have a good chance of skipping P3.
• Feel that I am trusted as a more experienced proofer, rather than seen as just a second P1.
• Do at least one page a day, i.e. my "Total Pages" should stay at or above the number of days I've been in "This Round".
• See diffs within a reasonable time.

P3 Proofers

• Have a wide variety of projects to work with.
• Have projects available that really need my help.
• Have the round free of projects that have already been adequately proofed.
• Have projects move quickly from the queues into the round.

F1 Proofers

• Clear, concise instructions about how to handle unusual features of the book. X
• Project comments succinct and up-to-date, especially when the associated forum thread is rather long.
• Do at least one page a day, i.e. my "Total Pages" should stay at or above the number of days I've been in "This Round".
• See diffs within a reasonable time.

F2 Proofers

• There are enough of us that I don't feel obliged to work in F2 when I don't feel like it.

Project Managers

• See books complete each round in a reasonable time.
• See my books move into rounds at a regular steady rate.
• Minimize the number of times I have worry about clearing a proofer's work or not.
• Be able to influence, if not decide, when a project should skip a round.
• The project thread stays on-topic and is friendly to newcomers.

Post-Processors

• Be able to check out a book I will enjoy, at the moment when I actually have time to PP it.
• Not discover missing stuff only after a book has reached PP.
• To have a reasonable chance of getting a book smoothread, rather than having to wait 4 weeks for nothing.

Post-Process Verifiers

• Having a PPer improve to the point where he/she becomes a direct-uploader or PPVer.
• PPers willing to make suggested changes to their work.
• PPers willing to make the extra effort to learn how to do it "without a net" (become a direct-uploader).

Content Providers

• Be able to avoid duplicating effort (harvesting or scanning books already done).
• Have ready access to new materials.
• Have quick responses from the OCR pool.
• Have quick responses from project managers with projects on the Missing Pages list.
• Have my projects release into P1 quickly, as a reward after all that scanning.
• Have quick responses from the missing page finders.
• To have advice available on how to scan well, rather than have proofers complain later.
• See CP-ed books complete within reasonable time, so I can return those books to the library, and need not extend them for years...

Smoothreaders

• Have enough time to read a book as well as try to find problems in it.
• Have my work acknowledged - a "thankyou" message from the project manager for example.

All Volunteers

• See texts be posted to Project Gutenberg. X
  • See texts that I've worked on getting posted to Project Gutenberg.
    • See good-quality texts that I've worked on getting posted to Project Gutenberg.

Users of PG texts

• Be able to download and read a wide variety of texts. X
• Know what edition of a work an e-text is based on.
• Be able to compare the book with the scans. (Yes, I know we're still working on a really good way to do this...)