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	<title>Notes from the 'Lab</title>
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		<title>ipv6 arrives at ibiblio</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/197</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to UNC&#8217;s network master, Jim Gogan, for creating an ibiblio VLAN this morning and enabling ipv6 support for us in the process!
ipv6 in the ibiblio office heralds the return of WCPE&#8217;s ipv6 Internet stream, accessible via http://audio-ipv6.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.mp3
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many thanks to UNC&#8217;s network master, <a href="https://s4.its.unc.edu/UNCExperts/uncexperts/getperson?ID=RSFTCERFD">Jim Gogan</a>, for creating an ibiblio VLAN this morning and enabling ipv6 support for us in the process!</p>
<p>ipv6 in the ibiblio office heralds the return of WCPE&#8217;s ipv6 Internet stream, accessible via <a href="http://audio-ipv6.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.mp3">http://audio-ipv6.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.mp3</a></p>
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		<title>ibiblio serving more content over bittorrent</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/196</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ibiblio is pleased to announce the addition of four new contributing projects to its Osprey bittorrent distribution system.  The ibiblio-hosted or -mirrored projects now serving over torrent.ibiblio.org now include:

ArkLinux

Bintoo Linux

Damn Small Linux

Eclipse.org

EnGarde Linux

the FreeDOS Project

the ibiblio Speaker Series

OpenOffice.org

Project Gutenberg

RecordsQuest.org


ibiblio is pleased to disseminate its contributors&#8217; content through innovative delivery methods which should speed downloads [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ibiblio is pleased to announce the addition of four new contributing projects to its <a href="http://osprey.ibiblio.org">Osprey</a> bittorrent distribution system.  The ibiblio-hosted or -mirrored projects now serving over <a href="http://torrent.ibiblio.org">torrent.ibiblio.org</a> now include:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.arklinux.org">ArkLinux</a>
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<li><a href="http://bintoo.sourceforge.net/drpl/">Bintoo Linux</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/">Damn Small Linux</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse.org</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.engardelinux.org/">EnGarde Linux</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.freedos.org">the FreeDOS Project</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://speakers.ibiblio.org">the ibiblio Speaker Series</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.net">Project Gutenberg</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://www.recordsquest.org">RecordsQuest.org</a>
</li>
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<p>ibiblio is pleased to disseminate its contributors&#8217; content through innovative delivery methods which should speed downloads to end users while cutting bandwidth costs at the same time.  If you are interested in serving content images over <a href="http://torrent.ibiblio.org">torrent.ibiblio.org</a>, please drop a note to help at ibiblio.org.</p>
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		<title>TeachFor.Us turns 1</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/195</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/195#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, ibiblio began hosting Teachfor.Us, a place where Teach for America teachers can blog. Since then, TeachFor.Us has experience tremendous growth, and is gaining new readership and greater use every day. Big props to Adam Geller for working so hard to make this project happen.
More coverage here.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/2006/07/25/lyceum-powers-teach-for-america-blogs/">A year ago</a>, ibiblio began hosting <a href="http://teachfor.us/">Teachfor.Us</a>, a place where <a href="http://teachforamerica.org/">Teach for America</a> teachers can blog. Since then, TeachFor.Us <a href="http://theblog.teachfor.us/2007/05/05/april-showers-bring-readers/">has experience tremendous growth</a>, and is gaining new readership and greater use every day. Big props to <a href="http://adamgeller.com/">Adam Geller</a> for working so hard to make this project happen.</p>
<p><a href="http://theblog.teachfor.us/2007/07/23/teachforus-turns-1/">More coverage here.</a></p>
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		<title>Joey Carr presents Linux Video to TriLUG</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/194</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/194#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first TriLUG monthly Chapel Hill meeting will take place at 18:00 until 20:00 on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 in room 208 at Manning Hall on UNC Campus.  The talk is on Linux video editing, given by Joey Carr.
The talk will introduce the capabilities of several of the most basic tools in linux video [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first <a href="http://trilug.org">TriLUG</a> monthly Chapel Hill meeting will take place at 18:00 until 20:00 on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 in room 208 at <a href="http://sils.unc.edu/about/visit.html">Manning Hall on UNC Campus</a>.  The talk is on Linux video editing, given by Joey Carr.</p>
<p>The talk will introduce the capabilities of several of the most basic tools in linux video production (kino/dvgrab, cinelerra, ffmpeg, and mencoder). Other tools and multimedia-focused linux distributions will be discussed.  A basic production workflow will be demonstrated for video capture via IEEE 1394 (i.e. Firewire), and editing in Kino. Finally, options for DVD authoring will be covered in brief.</p>
<p>Joey previously worked as a Java developer and later as a business analyst for a medical informatics application service provider.  He recently returned to UNC to study film and video production in the department of Communication Studies.  He is currently working for <a href="http://ibiblio.org">iBiblio</a> on their video speaker series and other projects.</p>
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		<title>ibiblio is an official Tier 1 mirror for the Fedora project</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/193</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/193#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fedora Project leads have announced the availability of fedora-archives.ibiblio.org, a new Tier 1 mirror of the Fedora Project&#8217;s Linux distribution.  The new mirror is accessible to official Fedora mirrors who are connected to the high-speed National Lambda Rail and Internet2/Abilene networks, and is the project&#8217;s first step towards a new mirroring hierarchy.
Matt Domsch of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fedora Project leads have announced the availability of <i>fedora-archives.ibiblio.org</i>, a new Tier 1 mirror of the Fedora Project&#8217;s Linux distribution.  The new mirror is accessible to official Fedora mirrors who are connected to the high-speed National Lambda Rail and Internet2/Abilene networks, and is the project&#8217;s first step towards a new mirroring hierarchy.</p>
<p>Matt Domsch of the Fedora Project sends ibiblio his thanks for the mirroring, while ibiblio sends its thanks to the Fedora Project for the donation of hardware support which made possible both the <i>fedora-archives</i> mirror and a greatly expanded Linux distribution archive on <a href="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/"><i>distro.ibiblio.org</i></a>.</p>
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		<title>Gutenberg and ibiblio recognized by US State Dept</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/192</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/192#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dls</dc:creator>
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20 July 2007

Project Gutenberg Digital Library Seeks To Spur Literacy
Library hopes to offer 1 million electronic books in 100 languages
By Jeffrey Thomas
USINFO Staff Writer
Washington &#8211; Thirty-six years ago, a student at the University of Illinois keyed the U.S. Declaration of Independence into a mainframe computer and offered it to others on the network that would [...]]]></description>
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<img src="http://usinfo.state.gov/articles/uploads/nL/p0/nLp0WKUAyPf8r-mF50HVFg/USINFO.State.gov.jpg" alt="U.S. State Department banner" border=0 /></a></p>
<p>20 July 2007<br />
<a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&#038;y=2007&#038;m=July&#038;x=200707201511311CJsamohT0.6146356"><strong><br />
Project Gutenberg Digital Library Seeks To Spur Literacy</strong></a></p>
<p>Library hopes to offer 1 million electronic books in 100 languages</p>
<p>By Jeffrey Thomas<br />
USINFO Staff Writer</p>
<p>Washington &#8211; Thirty-six years ago, a student at the University of Illinois keyed the U.S. Declaration of Independence into a mainframe computer and offered it to others on the network that would become the Internet. Six users downloaded the file, inaugurating what its founder, Michael Hart, decided to call Project Gutenberg in honor of Johannes Gutenberg, the 15th-century German printer who started the movable type printing press revolution.</p>
<p>Using free computer time at his university, Hart keyed in the first 100 books himself and since has devoted his life to the project. Today, he often is described as someone who was a visionary ahead of his time; he has described himself as an “incurable romantic,” a “natural-born workaholic and idealist.” Hart grasped from the outset that his idea for a digital library could change the world, spurring literacy. Project Gutenberg became the first information provider on the Internet and is the oldest digital library with the largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-books.</p>
<p>Project Gutenberg gives away 3 million e-books a week from just one single site, www.ibiblio.org at the University of North Carolina, according to Hart. Most are books whose copyrights have expired in the United States, but there are also audio books, recorded music, sheet music, moving pictures and still pictures. The original video clip of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, just four hours before American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong became the first person to step on the moon, is part of the collection, for example.</p>
<p>“The idea of Project Gutenberg is to bring the source of all information, and civilization, to the masses in the same way the Gutenberg press did in the middle of the second millennium, only in a modern manner,” Hart said.</p>
<p>The collection includes books in many languages other than English. For example, there are 1,053 books in French, 451 in German, 396 in Finnish, 279 in Dutch, 155 in Spanish, 114 in Italian, 113 in Portuguese, 54 in Tagalog, and even books in Frisian, Catalan, Nahuatl, Sanskrit and Iroquoian.</p>
<p>Hart has said he expects eventually to offer 1 million books in 100 languages as well as everything else in the public domain including graphics, music, movies, sculpture, paintings and photographs.</p>
<p>Hart’s goal is simple: “We want to provide as many e-books in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible.” He added that e-books advance the dissemination of culture, literacy, democracy and civil society.</p>
<p>Project Gutenberg does not claim new copyright on titles it publishes. Hart instead has encouraged the free reproduction and distribution of the collection by such projects as the eGranary, which places Web resources on a server on university campuses in developing countries that have little or no Internet connectivity. (See related article.)</p>
<p>Hart does not ask for user fees or solicit large grants, insisting his collection’s e-books be free, keeping the project a virtual, rather than physical, entity and relying on volunteers. So far, more than 50,000 people have helped – “there are no dues, no membership requirements and still only the most general guidelines to making eBooks for Project Gutenberg,” he said.</p>
<p>Hart’s project has inspired such other digital libraries as Projekt Gutenberg-DE for classic German literature and Projekt Runeberg for classic Nordic literature.</p>
<p>One of Hart’s key principles is “noninterference” with volunteers. “Project Gutenberg&#8217;s staff and the organization as a whole can do the most good by setting up a set of tools and infrastructure to create and distribute e-books, and then let creative and energetic volunteers do work as they see fit,” he said.</p>
<p>A free DVD, whose contents also are available for downloading, contains 17,000 of the collection’s first 19,000 titles.</p>
<p>Hart said he believes e-books are also an environmentally friendly alternative to printing traditional books. And, most of the world cannot afford the traditional book, he added. “When it comes to owning entire libraries, it&#8217;s easier if they are e-books.”</p>
<p>There are more than 20,000 free books listed in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. No special e-book readers, software or other devices are necessary. More than 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources. The Science Fiction Bookshelf is offering a new compact disk for downloading that includes most of the collection’s science fiction titles.</p>
<p>Users also can create a CD or DVD image containing only the books they want, whether 20 or 2,000. For further information on how to download compilations of e-books, see Gutenberg: The CD and DVD Project.</p>
<p>Project Gutenberg is participating in the second annual World eBook Fair, which has more than 750,000 e-books, including historical documents, national literatures, children’s literature, medicine and reference, available for free downloading through August 4.</p>
<p>(USINFO is produced by the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)</p>
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		<title>NC House Appreciates iBiblio</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/191</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pjones</dc:creator>
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This just in (click on image for a larger copy):

North Carolina
House of RepresentativesCertificate of
Acknowledgement and Congratulations
Whereas, October 31, 2007 will be the 15th anniversary of the first public demo of sunsite.unc.edu, which is now known as iBiblio.org; and
Whereas, the iBiblio website digital repository and community have become cultural treasures of the state of North Carolina, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/HouseLovesibibFull.jpg"><img align="left" alt="NC House Congratulations" src="http://ibiblio.org/pjones/HouseLovesibiblio.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>This just in (click on image for a larger copy):</p>
<p><center><br />
North Carolina<br />
House of RepresentativesCertificate of<br />
Acknowledgement and Congratulations<br />
</center>Whereas, October 31, 2007 will be the 15th anniversary of the first public demo of sunsite.unc.edu, which is now known as iBiblio.org; and</p>
<p>Whereas, the iBiblio website digital repository and community have become cultural treasures of the state of North Carolina, and</p>
<p>Whereas, iBiblio has played a pivotal role as both a medium and advocate for the free and open sharing of digital information.</p>
<p><center><br />
Then, therefore this Eighth Day of March<br />
In the Year of Two Thousand Seven,<br />
Representatives Deborah Ross and Verla Insko recognizeiBiblio</p>
<p>For its commitment and contributions to technology and culture,<br />
and to the North Carolina community as a whole.<br />
</center>(signatures)</p>
<p>Joe Hackney &#8211; Speaker<br />
Attested by Denise Weeks &#8211; Principal Clerk<br />
Representative Deborah Ross &#8211; District # 38<br />
Representative Verla Insko &#8211; District # 56</p>
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		<title>Dan Gillmor: We the (Traditional) Media</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/190</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November Dan Gillmor visited us and gave a talk about the new directions that technology is making available to traditional as well as the non-traditional media.  The talk is available for download as part of the ibiblio speaker series.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In November <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gillmor">Dan Gillmor</a> visited us and gave a talk about the new directions that technology is making available to traditional as well as the non-traditional media.  The talk is <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/speakers/gillmor_06/">available for download</a> as part of the ibiblio speaker series.</p>
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		<title>Over 16.4 Million Requests Answered in One Day</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/189</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/189#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday November 3, 2006 ibiblio delivered answers to over 16,409,292  requests! That&#8217;s total hits (excludes errors like File Not Found etc and not including Internet Radio listeners or Bittorrent or Rsync transactions).
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday November 3, 2006 ibiblio delivered answers to <strong>over 16,409,292</strong>  requests! That&#8217;s total hits (excludes errors like File Not Found etc and not including Internet Radio listeners or Bittorrent or Rsync transactions).</p>
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		<title>Dec 8: ibiblio at NCREN Community Day</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/188</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibiblio.org/ibiblog/188#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be a big part of the upcoming North Carolina Research and Education Network Community Day on December 8th at MCNC in the Research Triangle Park, NC.
I hate that it&#8217;s the same day as the UNC Social Networking Symposium which is very much worth your while.
Both events require advance registration.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;ll be a big part of the upcoming <a href="http://www.mcnc.org/events/communityDay06/index.cfm">North Carolina Research and Education Network Community Day</a> on December 8th at <a href="http://www.mcnc.org/events/communityDay06/directions.cfm">MCNC in the Research Triangle Park, NC.</a><br />
I hate that it&#8217;s the same day as the <a href="http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/10/announcing-unc-social-software.html">UNC Social Networking Symposium</a> which is very much worth your while.</p>
<p>Both events require advance registration.</p>
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