Would you like to be a contributor to dspGuru? Here are some guidelines
that explain how to contribute.
How to contribute:
- Propose something to contribute.
- Choose a licensing method, then do the licensing paperwork.
- Submit your contribution(s).
- Watch it get published.
1) Propose something to contribute.
Send us an e-mail outlining what you would like to submit. (See our
Site page for our e-mail address.)
Please do not send us any actual submissions until your proposal has been
accepted. If we accept your proposal, we next need to work out the
licensing arangement.
2) Choose a licensing method, then do the licensing paperwork.
From our perspective, we want to stay out of legal trouble. But even on
another level, "being clear about the rules" just saves trouble for
everybody. To keep Iowegian from hurting itself, anything we use on dspGuru
will have to fall into one of three categories:
- Licensed to us: We have created an Agreement to Publish Copyrighted Works which allows us to use
your work, while allowing you to retain ownership of its copyright. This is our
preferred method of accepting contributions. To contribute in this way, simply
follow the directions given at the top of the agreement. The Agreement is written such that it only has to
be sent to us once, then you can repeatedly contribute simply by marking your
submissions as falling under the agreement.
- Public Domain: Very simply, these are things that you clearly mark
at the top with: "THIS WORK IS PLACED IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN". If you
wish to contribute in this way, you give up all ownership right to your work;
anybody can use it for any purpose. If you wish to go this route, please mark
it as above and post your contribution to
comp.dsp (please copy
"submit@dspguru.com" on your posting); that clearly establishes its
Public Domain status for all to see. An additional benefit is that this method
provides a great deal of "peer review": as usual, people will shoot
at your stuff (kindly, we hope!), if there's anything wrong with it. It also is
a great way to announce your work. (Note: If you are submitting a "DSP Trick" to comp.dsp, please
follow the guidelines
and use
the
official DSP Trick submission form.)
- Owned by us: This stuff comes from copyrights we purchase, or is
simply copyrighted material we create ourselves. Sad to say, in order to keep
the Iowegian piggybank healthy, for the time being we will not be able to pay
for any material; we will mainly be using methods 1) and 2).
3) Submit your contribution
You simply submit your contribution to us via e-mail or comp.dsp. If
you submit your work under our license
agreement please be sure to mark it the way the license agreement
indicates(otherwise we can't accept it).
4) Watch it get published
Now...let's assume you have provided a contribution to dspGuru. Here's how
we hope to respond to it:
- We will publish it in draft form on the web in a private area.We hope to
publish the draft within a few weeks after it is first submitted, but the
actual publishing time will vary depending on our workload.
- After we publish the draft, we will send you an e-mail asking you to review
it and to send back your comments. (Please return your comments
promptly!) We will always publish your name with your article, but we will
ask you via e-mail whether you want your name, e-mail address and web site
address to appear.
- If you OK the draft, (or if we fail to hear from you for awhile), we will
move it to its permanent address at dspGuru. Then, we will send out a note to
comp.dsp, and to you, telling you where to find it.
- If comments come in from users, we'll either field them ourselves, or pass
them along to you for your response. Then, we will revise the page, at our
discretion.