[bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
- From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:44:13 -0600
RE: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download UpdatesHi, Lisa.
Being able to download the manual from wherever you and the rest of the
Bookshare staff decide would be wonderful for the volunteers. Implement
whatever safety precautions you need to as long as we can get it and are
allowed to put it in our portable devices.
Linda Adams
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Friendly
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 8:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
Wouldn't you have access from the Volunteers page? I'd rather not make it
accessible to non members and non volunteers.
Lisa
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Grandma Cindy
Sent: Sun 8/5/2007 4:02 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
I think it needs to go onto the download list with a
special code, such as do not remove--or be made
available to nonmembers if it's in the collection,
like some of the public domain books. Otherwise people
like Jamie and me won't have access. smile
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I think Pratik has come up with a simple
> method of allowing people to
> keep up to date while taking the manual with them:
> Put it in the new books
> list whenever a change is made so people can
> download the latest manual and
> simply replace their older one. I hope this idea is
> implemented.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linda Adams
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:27 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for
> Manual Download Updates
>
>
> Hi, Evan. That idea may not even work
> technically, but we have already
> alienated one person, who said that she wouldn't be
> reading the manual if
> she didn't have it on the go, and there may be
> others like that person. I
> hope we can come up with something to give people
> free access to the manual
> on the go, in their note takers, or whatever, that
> will satisfy Bookshare's
> concerns about updates because otherwise, Bookshare,
> if it does nothing, may
> alienate several of its volunteers. After all, how
> can we call ourselves
> Bookshare if we're not willing to share our main
> book?
>
> Linda Adams
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evan Reese
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:56 PM
> 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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