[bksvol-discuss] Re: Creating a Process for Creating Guidelines
- From: "Robert Peters" <rpet@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:11:51 -0500
As would I.
Robert
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>>> "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> 6/9/2009 4:25 PM >>>
Hi Pavi,
May I please be included in helping to shape guidelines?
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Creating a Process for Creating Guidelines
Hi All,
As you know the recent guidelines that went out on Page Numbering have
generated some understandable concern and confusion among the volunteers.
Some of you have written in to staff with detailed emails articulating those
areas of concern and where the guidelines appear more inconvenient than
helpful. Others have expressed their opinions on the list. Carrie and I have
had several discussions recently on how best to address these concerns and
modify the guidelines so that they serve as a tool and not a hindrance. As
hands-on volunteers all of your input is valuable and we want the guidelines
to reflect the best practices and collective wisdom of the volunteer
community.
Regarding page numbers Carrie will send out a note shortly to clarify some
of the areas of confusion and concern and explain how the guidelines for
this will be implemented. Bottom line is that we do understand the wide
variety of challenges volunteers face with including page numbers in books,
and we're glad to have had your feedback. We intend hereon for this
guideline to be implemented with a large degree of flexibility - and will be
rewriting the guidelines to clearly reflect the difference between page
number requirements for educational books and other submissions.
Moving forward though, for us one of the overarching questions that the Page
Number issue brings up is:
What is the most efficient and effective way for Bookshare to do the
following:
1. Identify volunteer areas that need guidelines
2. Draft guidelines and have them reviewed by a small pool of
volunteers(in a sort of beta phase)
3. Finalize and share these guidelines among the greater volunteer
community
Ideally, Carrie and I feel that volunteers should have a leading and more
transparent role to play in steps 1 and 2 above.
Here is a suggested approach, that it would be great to get your input on:
1. Form a self-selected team of "Bookshare Guideline Shapers" (we can
think of a better name down the line- smile). The Guideline Shapers are
Bookshare volunteers who step forward to help identify, draft and sound out
missing guidelines. Even if something is brought to staff attention
regarding a missing guideline, we would turn it over initially to this group
with our suggestions if any.
2. The Guideline Shapers would decide on areas that need guidelines,
work on an initial draft of these guidelines and then send them over to
Carrie/me for review from the Bookshare staff perspective. The Guideline
Shapers would go over any edits from us and come up with a revised
guideline. They would then solicit feedback on the guideline from the
volunteer list before making any final tweaks to it.
3. Once the guideline has been finalized, I will incorporate it in the
Volunteer Manual, and ensure that it is announced on the volunteer blog as
well as on the volunteer discussion list. (We will create a separate section
of the manual for Updates to the Manual so that it is easy for people to
keep up with the changes).
Participation from the volunteer community while shaping policy, we feel is
key and we think this approach could be a really invigorating way of
facilitating the creation of useful guidelines from the inside-out. Of
course we would be more than glad to help with the logistics of setting up a
group alias and other etcs for Guideline Shapers, and to provide assistance
wherever we can. We would love your feedback on this approach as well as to
know if any of you are interested in being part of such a team.
Warm regards,
Pavi & Carrie
Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone: +1 650 644-3459
pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.benetech.org
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization
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