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Update on our progress
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Hiya everypony!
So I decided it's time to give a little update on the project for those who are interested and are following our progress.
First of all, we have officially entered Phase 2 of the project.
Phase 1 was, more or less, the testing phase. See how my bookbronies are, what's their style, work-morale. I tried to answer questions, clear up a few misunderstandings and make sure everything falls into place.
In this first phase we kinda worked on archiving Nightly Roundups, ATG Alumni art, Imageboard pics and Vectors.
Of course, we didn't just work on these. Meanwhile in the background the comic section, drawfriends, wallpapers, cust
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The Big Book of Brony and you.
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Greetings everypony.
First of all, let me thank you for coming here and taking the time to read through this journal. I will explain what this project is about, how we work on it and what our goal is.
It all started by my own archiving and organizing nature back when I joined the fandom in late January. I started to save everything pony related I came across. Around May, my personal collection has grown to such size I started wondering, and based on some feedback, it was already something beyond what most people have and seen. So I decided it would be a good idea to share it !
The goal was to give back something to the community, not for f
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Devious Journal Entry
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Phew, done.
Browsed through all the comments aswell. Replied to some.
Now that I'm done with the administration and everything, I can get back to work.
And wait for the new episode to be uploaded, wohoo :) Time to find out what Luna is really like.
Oh that reminds me, isn't it sorta illegal to, you know, get the episode off iTunes then reupload it publicly for free?
Oh sure, Hasbro didn't say they don't like it, so it's fine.
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Happy holidays 
May I ask what's the progress with the project since it's been a while since your last journal update?
May I ask what's the progress with the project since it's been a while since your last journal update?
Thank you for the fave.
thanks for the fave! ^^
Hi Awesome Project!
One question: I know you will be tagging the art with its creator, but will you be tagging them with the date they were made as well? I'm interested because, like you, I save everything I find, but put it in folders not of its content but when I came across it. I think it would be a neat feature to be able to sort them by date, so when you browse through a folder there aren't huge differences as the show and the fanon progresses, like for example how Luna completely changed in the show and art of her consequently did as well.
Awesome Project!One question: I know you will be tagging the art with its creator, but will you be tagging them with the date they were made as well? I'm interested because, like you, I save everything I find, but put it in folders not of its content but when I came across it. I think it would be a neat feature to be able to sort them by date, so when you browse through a folder there aren't huge differences as the show and the fanon progresses, like for example how Luna completely changed in the show and art of her consequently did as well.
Greetings and thank you ^-^
As for dates, I'm pretty sure we wont do that.
Adding an extra twist of categorization by implementing a secondary folder system would be a catastrophy in my opinion. My original idea was to create order in the chaos, but the other extreme would be overcategorization where you simply get lost in the myriads of subfolders. I surely want to avoid that.
Secondly, I'm not sure we could do that even if we wanted now.
In my latest update letter (which I complie every few days and send it to people working on the project) I checked the filecount of some section in The Book and yeah. Even the smallest sections (for example, wallpapers) hold 1500+ files.
In order to add dates to the images we would have to track back individually every single image one by one. We really don't have the capacity to do that with over 40.000 files.
Thirdly, though it could be a nice extra feature, I don't see that much practical use in it.
Besides, though many files are saved days or weeks later they were posted, most of them are saved around the time they were released, so even there might be a few days of differences you can simply set your OS to list images by date, and anyone can surely notice that the new Luna is seperated from the older ones.
As for dates, I'm pretty sure we wont do that.
Adding an extra twist of categorization by implementing a secondary folder system would be a catastrophy in my opinion. My original idea was to create order in the chaos, but the other extreme would be overcategorization where you simply get lost in the myriads of subfolders. I surely want to avoid that.
Secondly, I'm not sure we could do that even if we wanted now.
In my latest update letter (which I complie every few days and send it to people working on the project) I checked the filecount of some section in The Book and yeah. Even the smallest sections (for example, wallpapers) hold 1500+ files.
In order to add dates to the images we would have to track back individually every single image one by one. We really don't have the capacity to do that with over 40.000 files.
Thirdly, though it could be a nice extra feature, I don't see that much practical use in it.
Besides, though many files are saved days or weeks later they were posted, most of them are saved around the time they were released, so even there might be a few days of differences you can simply set your OS to list images by date, and anyone can surely notice that the new Luna is seperated from the older ones.
Thank you for the response
If it is difficult to tag them with a date, I wouldn't want you guys to waste that much time for something that's really not that important, just get it out for us to enjoy
At first I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal since you mentioned in a post that your programmer was able to read information from the pics taken from deviant art because of the way it tags them, but I checked now and the only info it seems to add is the author.
A few more questions:
What percent of what you guys have is author-less, i.e won't be included in the book. Some very early images that I've taken from EQD aren't tagged with an author, not to mention pony boards.
What is your policy on just random screen caps from the show? Some people use them as wallpapers, other as reaction images, so I'm kinda worried of a cluster of unoriginal work in the folders.
Will you archive news, newspaper articles or TV spots? (like the Colert shout-out and the Fox News Segment)
You mentioned there will be a folder for fan-made pony toys, but do you plan to have one for the official merch as well?
Are you guys updating the book with recently made material daily or are you saving that for later and you're using a cut-off date? (for example 10.10.2011 for the first year)
Keep up the terrific work! I'm really looking forward to the book
If it is difficult to tag them with a date, I wouldn't want you guys to waste that much time for something that's really not that important, just get it out for us to enjoy
At first I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal since you mentioned in a post that your programmer was able to read information from the pics taken from deviant art because of the way it tags them, but I checked now and the only info it seems to add is the author.
A few more questions:
What percent of what you guys have is author-less, i.e won't be included in the book. Some very early images that I've taken from EQD aren't tagged with an author, not to mention pony boards.
What is your policy on just random screen caps from the show? Some people use them as wallpapers, other as reaction images, so I'm kinda worried of a cluster of unoriginal work in the folders.
Will you archive news, newspaper articles or TV spots? (like the Colert shout-out and the Fox News Segment)
You mentioned there will be a folder for fan-made pony toys, but do you plan to have one for the official merch as well?
Are you guys updating the book with recently made material daily or are you saving that for later and you're using a cut-off date? (for example 10.10.2011 for the first year)
Keep up the terrific work! I'm really looking forward to the book
As for date tags, the tremendous work would be rename so many stuff one by one. Also, the program can decypher the author, and based on a given formula, the source link, all these just from the filename.
Though if you check, a downloaded file will have information on when it was downloaded, you can set your folders to list them by date anyways. But if we really would want to be very very precise, we would have to go back to each and every DA and FA page, every single EqD post and check when they were uploaded. Simply too much work.
Now, for the other questions.
Q: What percent of what you guys have is author-less?
A: I can't give a percentage here. Frankly, we have very few images without an author, and those from early days do have sources and authors in most cases, they keep reappearing anyways ^-^
Q: What is your policy on just random screen caps from the show?
A: I do keep a folder in the ImageBoard section called "Clean" which means it's for simple screencaps.
In the wallpaper section there's a folder for Captions as well, ofc those are high quality.
So yes we do inlcude those but heavily seperated from everything else.
Furthermore, we don't include many of them, plus it's a personal thingy. If I see a screencap that just captures a very funy moment, or one that is often used, I keep it. If I run into a low quality pretty neutral screencap, I don't include that.
Q: Will you archive news, newspaper articles or TV spots?
A: Yes. And both of your examples are in the collection, and much, much more.
Q: You mentioned there will be a folder for fan-made pony toys, but do you plan to have one for the official merch as well?
A: Yup. Already done.
Q: Are you guys updating the book with recently made material daily or are you saving that for later and you're using a cut-off date?
A: As of the moment, yes we are updating it with recent content. However there will be a certain point in the future where we will stop adding nnew material to the collection, probably 1-2 weeks before the release.
Though if you check, a downloaded file will have information on when it was downloaded, you can set your folders to list them by date anyways. But if we really would want to be very very precise, we would have to go back to each and every DA and FA page, every single EqD post and check when they were uploaded. Simply too much work.
Now, for the other questions.
Q: What percent of what you guys have is author-less?
A: I can't give a percentage here. Frankly, we have very few images without an author, and those from early days do have sources and authors in most cases, they keep reappearing anyways ^-^
Q: What is your policy on just random screen caps from the show?
A: I do keep a folder in the ImageBoard section called "Clean" which means it's for simple screencaps.
In the wallpaper section there's a folder for Captions as well, ofc those are high quality.
So yes we do inlcude those but heavily seperated from everything else.
Furthermore, we don't include many of them, plus it's a personal thingy. If I see a screencap that just captures a very funy moment, or one that is often used, I keep it. If I run into a low quality pretty neutral screencap, I don't include that.
Q: Will you archive news, newspaper articles or TV spots?
A: Yes. And both of your examples are in the collection, and much, much more.
Q: You mentioned there will be a folder for fan-made pony toys, but do you plan to have one for the official merch as well?
A: Yup. Already done.
Q: Are you guys updating the book with recently made material daily or are you saving that for later and you're using a cut-off date?
A: As of the moment, yes we are updating it with recent content. However there will be a certain point in the future where we will stop adding nnew material to the collection, probably 1-2 weeks before the release.