On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:01:40 -0400, Rick Harrison
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> wrote:
>It can happen to anybody: car accident, lightning bolt, falling down
>the stairs, encountering a stray bullet from a gangsta or a hunter. If
>you suddenly leave this world, would your online conlang descriptions
>survive, and would you want them to?
>
>There's been some interesting discussion of this in the conlang mailing
>list, which you can read on the web here ->
>http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0806d&L=conlang
>
>and here ->
>http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0806e&L=conlang
>
>If you read the latter you will see that Henrik Theiling has offered to
>provide up to 5 MB of automatic webpage mirroring for conlangers.
And when Henrik p***** on to the next place? ;)
It is actually something I've thought about. It should come as no
surprise that I'm involved with the shared world project, Ill
Bethisad. We do actually have in place a mechanism for sort of passing
on the torch as it were. We haven't been so specific as to talk about
our own deaths, but if I died tomorrow there are already two others in
place to sort of oversee the project.
I also own two "conlang" web domains (I snatched them before one of
the other non-constructed languages groups could get them; conlang.com
used to be owned by some business organisation but I see it's now for
sale) plus bethisad.com -- as recognisable pieces of intellectual
property, something would have to done with them if I died. Frankly,
I'd rather sell or give the conlang domains to an actual constructed
language group / society that would benefit from having its own domain
rather than a subdirectory at Yahoo.
None of this even touches my own creation, the World. I don't have
anything published from it, so there's no worries there. Ideally, it
would be nice for some creative soul to fall in love with it and
nurture it when I'm no longer around.
I would presume that if one had a family trust, one could simply fund
one's webhosting fees from a CD. Or perhaps some cultural organisation
/ museum / institution would be willing to accept the artistic produce
of the people and host them in an archive. Sort of an on-line art
gallery of the people's art, be it images, music, literature, poetry,
or conlangs!
Have you thought about this at all?
Padraic
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