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ACA call for Blood!!! 19-Sep-2009 At 10:24:01 AM nerm

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thesarvo.com's guides are mostly donations of previous out of print guides (i.e. Mt
Wellington, Freycinet, Craglets, Frenchmans), with a few that have been written
originally on the web (most significantly the bouldering guide), which means they are
relatively high quality, and have all the bits and pieces you expect from a published
guide - maps, full access details, some history etc etc. The motivation was always to
have both web and print versions of these guides - and have the same content for both.

There is a small profit made on printed guides - about $4 or $5 - this goes towards
hosting costs on the site (which are about $300-$400 per year). But the guide PDFs are
downloadable for free anyway - so people are just paying for convenience.

thesarvo.com content is all licensed under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike 2.5 Australia
License" - see details on the page footer at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/
For those that care this is kind of like GPL but more appropriate to written content than
a source code licence. This kind of licence was actually one of the conditions of the
donation of Craglets by Roger Parkyn. IMHO ACA content should be under the same or
similar licence if the contributors agree.

Nerd alert:
Gremlin - In the background the guides are stored as a really simple XML structure -
which could be the basis of a standard interop if your interested. You can view the
source of one of the pages like
this:http://www.thesarvo.com/confluence/pages/viewpagesrc.action?pageId=521
which is the XML for the Frenchmans guide.
Neil - have been thinking about making thesarvo.com guides as iphone downloads -
definitely the way of the future.