and the other language versions don't look any better.
Anyone want to help improve them?
Ryan Kaldari
On 9/8/11 1:10 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
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From: *Asaf Bartov* <abartov(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:abartov@wikimedia.org>>
Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Very sad news
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Oh no!
He was a true visionary and remains a personal hero of mine. I
admired his work so much, I created a Hebrew equivalent to Project
Gutenberg back in 1999.
I never got to meet him, and had been hoping to get a chance to, now
that I live in the US. Alas.
I had just been telling one of the WMF storytellers, in an interview,
about a formative experience in my life, when a friend came over, back
in 1992/1993, with a CD-ROM containing more than 500 classic works
including translations (Shakespeare, Plato, Confucius, Voltaire, you
name it), and got me forever hooked on the idea of free and open
digital content.
I'll never forget Michael Hart.
Asaf
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com
<mailto:emijrp@gmail.com>> wrote:
Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, has died
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart
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