[bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates

  • From: "Lisa Friendly" <LisaF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:49:46 -0700

We're going to ask all scanners and validators to be volunteers (right now only 
validators have to register as volunteers. And we're going to ask all new 
volunteers to check a box that they have read the manual. So it will be gentle 
yet firm, or something like that!

Lisa


-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Evan Reese
Sent: Sun 8/5/2007 11:56 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
 
Sorry, Linda, but I don't have a good feeling about this idea. Certainly, we 
want to encourage people to have the latest information, and some problems 
may arise if they don't get it. But forcing them to download it by not 
allowing them to volunteer if they don't sounds to me like a really good way 
of alienating people.

Evan

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Linda Adams
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:53 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates


  If Bookshare staff puts a Bookshare manual book in the collection for us 
to download, a code could be placed in the downloading of that book since 
Bookshare knows anyway when we download books.  This code could be necessary 
to show up in our account or profile before we would be allowed to submit or 
validate books.  That way, no further volunteering could be done unless the 
volunteer had downloaded the latest version of the manual.  That code could 
be an automatic password attached to the download of the manual that would 
be our key to continue volunteering.  The system would see that manual 
download code and permit us to continue volunteering.

  Linda Adams

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