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How it got started
So in late 2006 I realized I had lent my copy of Neuromancer to someone. Not only had this individual not returned it, but I had forgotten who it was.
Now, I love lending books. A lot. Ask my friends. But Neuromancer? Well losing that would be almost as bad as losing God Emperor of Dune... or The Dispossessed. So I resolved to never let it happen again, but I had no intention of turning into one of those lame book hermits who hoards their collection against. So I started hunting around for a desktop application that would let me catalogue my collection and keep notes about who had what. Pretty basic, right?
Thats when I discovered the Distributed Library Project. It sounded like what I wanted to do, plus I could share it with my friends! The broken code wasn't an issue to fix and pretty soon I had a customised version up and I started working. Eventually I partnered up with bct and we both got tired of PHP and the crufty code, so we redid the thing in Ruby on Rails, and here we are!
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I contribute?
(Ok so maybe not frequently asked, but we want it to be...)
If you want to donate, right now we are vitally in need of good hardware to host on. Mostly though we have a pile of things we'd like to see done in terms of development.
We do our development on GitHub off of this tree. If you want to experiment, just clone the tree and request a pull once you have something for us. (note: As of 2008-12-23 the code is not yet under an open source license [figuring this out is slated for the near future]. For now any contributions will need to be licensed to myself so that I can re-license it properly in the future.)