Interesting. I'm hesitant to too harshly criticize the way things operate within this project, both because I've not been here for long enough to truly gauge the things it does well and where it could improve, and because I already appreciate what's going on here, mostly by volunteers, a great deal. That said, hopefully these issues eventually become resolved. The first two proposals I raised, (Gustavo himself correcting minor mislabeling he already knows about and, short of that, leaving more specific kick back explanations), have nothing to do with technical development, so far as I can see. Considering the amount of volunteer work that keeps Bookshare running, it's important, I feel, to understand that many people have priorities ahead of the project. With that in mind, the time they devote to the project must be used as efficiently as possible, and hopefully we as a community can continue to work as hard as we do on this endeavor. Meanwhile we will constantly be trying to promote its further evolution and the optimization of the time put in by each individual volunteer.
Jared----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:15Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: I made you a list of books kicked back to step one!
Jared, you're not alone in scratching your head. I have asked the same questions, and I have finally just stopped asking because there doesn't seem to be an answer. These issues rear their ugly heads once in awhile, and we propose solutions. That's as far as it gets because we're told that Bookshare needs a developer to code the proposed solutions. The parent company of Bookshare is actively seeking 3 developers for work on such projects. I hope this sheds some small amount of light on the situation.Monica Willyard At 10:16 PM 1/1/2007, you wrote:Erm, newby volunteer asking what is likely a lame question...If Gustavo has checked the book to the point of noticing tiny inaccuracies like this, why not just take the two seconds required to rectify them and then finish the process? Sending it back to the validators just to add a semicolon, extend a book's title to reflect it's actual true title, etc. seems sort of counterproductive.Sorry if this (A) has been asked before, (B) is stepping on proverbial toes, or (C) displays some other factor of which I am ignorant. The general gist I've gotten after observing posts over the last couple of days is that quite a few books have been kicked back for these pretty basic housecleaning sorts of things. This combined with the somewhat ambiguous notices left as explanations for kick backs and the lack of direct notice to the validator for such a small discrepancy is leaving me scratching my head.JaredTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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