RE: In the news (Georgia State)

[<Toby.GREEN@oecd.org>]

Plodding along requires non-human resources as well as people; 
servers, electricity etc. These need to be funded by someone on 
an ongoing basis.

And may you never fall under a bus!

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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel
Sent: 25 April, 2008 1:56 AM
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Subject: Re: In the news (Georgia State)

Toby.GREEN@oecd.org writes

> I assume you meant set up *and maintain* open access resources.

Yes.

> In the long-run, this is the key challenge.

Not necessarily.  Once you set up, you usually get some community 
around the a resource. There you can find maintainers. It is the 
setup that is the hardest, because a community does not yet 
exists over the resource. In the early years of RePEc people 
thought RePEc would die if I fall under a bus. I didn't but if I 
fell today, it would just plod along happily.

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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phone: +7 383 330 6813                       skype: thomaskrichel