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STATUS as of August 2007

It has been a while since you subscribed for the Cx3 and you must have been wondering what has been going on since. A number of activities have been going on the last few months.

The people that are working on it are Brian Gharst, Paul Rhoads, Greg Hansen, Tony Graham, Thomas Rydbeck, Joel Anderson, Kingsley Sawyers and Hans van der Veeke.

• Some highlights:
  
  There are now 91 subscribers for the set.

• An introduction to the set has been written by Bob Lacovara, the founder of Cosmopolis.

• The volunteer index is nearly finished. Greg, Paul and Brian have put a lot of effort in it.

• To give an example on how this probably will look (issue#, page#):
  Dusoulier, Patrick
  
  Articles:
  Crushing the Lemon: Practical Use of VDAE: 11/9
  VDAE-ing the Book of Dreams: 12/4
  My First TI Experience (Book of Dreams): 15/13
  Big Planet, Big Scissors...: 25/8
  Introduction to Jerome Dutel's Thesis: 31/10
  C'est la VIE!: 35/6
  The Milan Packing Caper: 36/2
  The Palace of Statistics: 37/10
  Jack's Punch Line: 41/7 (fictional responses: 41/37)
  Jack's Name-Recycling: 42/38
  Jack in the Cage: 43/2 (response: 44/16)
  Letters: (typos) 33/13; (indifference) 41/7 (response: 42/45)
  Photos of: (Chinon TI conf.) 12/8, (GM2) 31/3, (packing) 37/2
  
  Bio: 4/3
  Quoted on: (the Gift Volume) 20/8; (Rapparee monkeying) 21/7; (teamwork)
  24/7; (the deluxe SFV) 29/4; (GM2 beverages) 30/18; (diacriticals) 41/11;
  ('marvellous') 41/12; (Wave 1 textport) 45/5; (French translation &
  republication) 48/6; (Cosmopolis errata) 52/17; (nautical terms) 60/15
  
  Kudos: (management) 10/4; (TI) 12/6&etc, 25/5&etc, 50/5&etc; (proofreading)
  15/2&etc; (implementation) 23/2; (packing) 27/2; (volume post-proofing)
  58/8; (post-proofing) 61/8; (accolades) 11/6, 14/17, 24/3, 40/14, 42/17,
  57/6&etc, 61/36, 62/10; 63/2&etc

• Kingsley has been busy with the non-volunteer aspects of the index. He is about two-thirds done.

• Tony Graham has developed his own mini-VDAE-like tool to generate lists of words to help us fill in our index.

• Thomas Rydbeck has written a glossary of VIE jargon which will be included in the books also.
  
  We are in the beginning stage of developing the various Tables of Contents for the set. We plan to provide a comprehensive all-issue Table of Contents, as well as a few specialized Tables to simplify finding certain articles and
  features.

• There will be 3 folio volumes, designed to accord nicely with the Readers edition.

• Many of the physical aspects of the set have been decided on, with the help of Stefania Zacco.

• Things have been going slower during the holidays. Understandable, we all need a break.

• Thanks to a subsidy of the former VIE project the price of the books for the first 75 subscribers will be around 100 euros. The price for subscribers with a number higher than 75 will be around 220 euros.

• We estimate to be finished with the index before the end of March (2008). Then will the task of composing begin. Before we will go to print, we will ask for a deposit to be paid. People who pay this, will keep their number. People who do not, lose their number and the people after them will move up one place.

For more information, if you have questions or you want to discuss the project,
please go to the Cx3 forum on the Foreverness Message Board

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