The website is still available through the Wayback machine. Someone posted the link above.
The reason I am taking it down is that I decided to move towards retirement. Again ;-)
I'll be 78 in a few months and want to spend more time and money on other things.
But I will remain a member here.
Jan
The reason I am taking it down is that I decided to move towards retirement. Again ;-)
I'll be 78 in a few months and want to spend more time and money on other things.
But I will remain a member here.
Jan
This is a very appealing idea!
There are many sites with precious material around, endagered to be shut down, been orphaned, or not easily been found when browsing. And it's us, the diyAudio community which might be interested to preserve all this knowledge first hand.
Therefore, GitHub or similar could take place here. I imagine a kind of audio competence and heritage repository, sorted by authors. A moderator team would basically provide some gate-keeping control by selecting the content in order to maintain a certain quality standard.
All content would have to be certified to have been willingly donated by the original authors or theirs successors (to name e.g. late s.linkwitz) to this repository by an explicit declaration/grant.
Any member of the diyAudio community might be enabled to suggest the inclusion of valuable material found in the web. One might imagine to actively ask authors to "donate" selected papers and/or other content such as whole websites to this repository. E.g. an author planning to shut down his website might not be active here, and therefore might not be aware that there might be some interest to preserve his content.
Such a repository affiliated to DiyAudio might encourate members here to dive more deeply into the theoretical basics of theirs work. Because the theoretical background would be first-hand and readily available. It even might become best practice to include some links to this repository when presenting a practical specific project here, or when commenting a project within a thread's answer. Certainly this practice would further rise the general level of theoretical understanding of all our designing, sawing, soldering, measuring, tweaking and listening.
Maybe such a repository could become our daily diy'ers AES library.
Maybe I am naive, or dreaming. And maybe not.