Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The OpenCookBook - savannah.gnu.org

[Elfyn McBratney]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 05:21:03AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> David Grant <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: fdl
> Other License: 
> Package: The OpenCookBook
> System name: opencookbook

Savannah's mission is to host free software projects, and we want the public
to think of them as free software projects.  A project name that says "open"
will tend to lead people to think of the project as "open source" instead of
"free software".

We would be glad if you accept to use "free" instead of "open" in your
project name.

> Type: GNU

Your project is not part of the GNU project, so we cannot accept its current
type.  We want to maintain the distinction between 'GNU' and 'non-GNU'
projects. If your project is approved for inclusion into Savannah, we will
set its type to 'non-GNU'.

If your project is accepted into the GNU project you may change its type.
You can do this by asking us.

> Description:
> I am not sure if you guys support this kind of project, but I think it is
> an interesting and very useful one.  There are some free recipe websites
> out there but often I find there are just TOO many recipes.  Other
> websites like allrecipes.com make people pay to see certain recipes.
> 
> The goal is to create a free open-source cookbook (of food recipes) using
> an amazing (but simple) latex class called 'cooking' by Axel Reichert.
> This class has a great way of structuring the recipe layout which you can
> see in the source code I provided.

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While Open Source as defined by its founders means something pretty close to
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> The cookbook would contain many recipes.  Initially, the cookbook would
> contain almost any recipe.  Recipes would be decided upon by the developers
> whether or not to include them.  Identical recipes would be merged so as to
> find the ultimate recipe.  For example, unless two recipes for spaghetti
> sauce differ significantly, the two recipes will be combined, taking the
> best of each to make the best recipe.  This cookbook will start off as
> being the best of the best, only the best recipes out there.  Eventually
> as the project expands I would like to have several cookbooks branch off
> into a desert-only cookbook, a vegetarian-only cookbook, a main course-only
> cookbook, and so on.  This is easily achieved by using \inlude statements,
> to include recipes of certain types.  Using latex as the processing system
> gives us a lot of flexibility, especially with regards to changing the
> output format of the recipes later.
> 
> The source code of my cookbook is here.
> http://www.davidgrant.ca:81/myCookbook.tar.gz   I have many more that I

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> want to add but I need a place on the web to store them, and which allows
> others to share and add easily through CVS, which usually works pretty
> good for Latex, but will work better for recipes, where less information
> is stored per line, than with usual Latex documents.
> 
> I have one person on the internet who also uses the latex cooking class and
> is willing to help contribute some recipes to get us started.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> latex (tetex for linux or miktex for windows, for example)
> cooking package for latex

"Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system that we like to refer to as
GNU/Linux, to emphasize the ideals of the Free Software movement.

For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.

> Other Comments:
> If you reject, can you please communicate to me if there is any way I can
> change it in order to make it acceptable or explain your reasons.

If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide
us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we
will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.

Regards,

-- 
Elfyn McBratney
beu on irc.freenode.net/savannah.[non]gnu.org

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