[projectaon] Re: Project Aon Origins
- From: Jonathan Blake <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:31:32 -0800
On 12/1/05, Iain Smith <iainsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One thing I've been wondering about for a while was how the whole project
> started,
> something that I've not managed to find clarification about on the website.
>
> While it's clear that Joe Dever wanted made his books free as a Millennium
> gift for his
> fans, was this a completely unprompted gesture which later led to the
> founding of
> ProjectAon, or was it the other way around? Did someone approach Joe with
> the idea of
> publishing them online which prompted him to allow the online publishing for
> free?
Just last night I was looking at some of the early website layouts and
reminiscing. As I remember it, Joe approached me in 1999 with the idea
of publishing the books online. He offered that I could put them
online for a fee to recoup costs. I offered three distributions
options. He chose the one we currently use: free for the taking but
not redistribution. When that was settled, I made an announcement to
the Kaiwisdom mailing list and got things started.
Someday, we should write a project history.
--
Jon
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