<right>David Reber</right>


Hello there!

My name is David Reber, AKA morpheus2485.

I am a Civil Engineering Student at San Francisco State University. I am hoping to get out in 3 semesters. I am also hoping to get my feet wet with a developing country project this summer and go full time with development work when I have finished my bachelor's degree. To this end, if you know of any projects an engineering student could help out with, I can pay my own way.

Anyway, my business here on appropedia, besides getting to know some of you fine folks, is to try to convince authors of out of print books to place their work under the GFDL, we can then use scanners and OCR technology like Project Gutenberg does to get this information onto the Internet. For now, I am beginning a letter writing campaign to try to get permission from authors.

I see this letter writing campaign having several uses. 1) we can resurrect information that would otherwise be relatively inaccessible in an out of print book. 2) We advertise appropedia to those who would be most likely to use it (people who have written books on appropriate technology) and 3) we can build up the content of appropedia in a relatively easy way (certainly easier than writing the books ourselves).

There are of course hurdles. Firstly, we have to get current contact information for people for whom we have only a name. Secondly, people may be opposed to loosing control of their intellectual property. However I think that a lot of the authors of these books had noble motivations for writing them in the first place and it is my hope that at least some will jump at the opportunity to allow their work to reach a wider audience.

The following is the list of authors I want to contact. I'm sure that there are better locations for this information, but I'll move it later. For now I want to get to work.

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Author: Nicholas Jequier
Book: Appropriate Technology: Problems and Promises
Subjects: Collection of papers discussing the merits of AT
Copyright: 1976
Publisher:ATPVIA
E-mail:
Phone:
Notes:
1993 - out of print



Author: M. Carr
Book: The A.T. Reader: Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Subjects: Over 100 articles analyzing the theories of AT
Copyright: 1985
Publisher: VITA and TOOL
E-mail:
Phone:
Notes:


ATPVIA: Appropriate Technology Project, Volunteers in Asia, PO Box 4543, Stanford, Ca 94309

VITA Volunteers in technical Assistance P.O. Box 12028, Arlington, VA 22209

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