[bksvol-discuss] Re: John Glass and the volunteer list
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:46:07 -0700 (PDT)
Hmmm. My understanding was that John was hired when
bookshare finally got the money to replace Marissa as
the volunteer liaison. I guess we really to need to
have his position clarified. smile
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Elizabeth. It is my understanding that John
> works as customer
> service support for all of the Benetech projects,
> not just
> Bookshare. If that's the case, I imagine he's
> spread pretty thin. I
> could be wrong about the scope of his job
> description. I think
> Benetech is working with some technology for finding
> land mines, and
> that sounds like pretty heavy duty work because it
> could save a lot
> of lives. They are also working on technology and
> data analysis
> regarding genocide and other human rights issues.
> If that is what
> John is working on, I'd rather have him doing that
> than answering
> questions about footnotes. I do care about
> Bookshare and even the
> footnotes. It's a matter of priorities though.
> Land mines kill
> people, usually people who have nothing to do with
> the wars fought
> around them. I'd love it if Bookshare had its own
> support person,
> but that's not too likely unless we find a way to
> get grant money to
> cover paying a full-time staff member. These are
> just some of the
> things I'm thinking about.
>
> Monica Willyard
>
> At Thursday 10/12/2006 08:41 PM, you wrote:
> >I just figure since he is supposed to be liaison
> between the
> >volunteers and staff I at least want to know he
> reads the list
> >regularly. Then I want to know whether it is his
> responsibility to
> >comment on issues where the volunteers want
> feedback from
> >staff. The last few issues included things like
> splitting up
> >sentences across page boundaries, footnote
> notation, splitting
> >sentences or putting them together on one side or
> another of
> >captions, the wish list, and volunteers who are
> having difficulty subscribing.
> >
> >He may be speaking to individual volunteers about
> issues. However,
> >if the issue is one which many of us come up with
> perhaps he will
> >want to reply to the list in future rather than to
> individuals so we
> >all can learn.
> >
> >E.
> >
> >
> >At 08:28 PM 10/12/2006, you wrote:
> >>E, I was wondering about what John's day is like
> also...I know that he
> >>has always given me 'more scans' whenever I have
> asked him, but I think
> >>it could help us understand certain 'things' if we
> had a notion about
> >>what his 'normal' day is like.
> >>
> >>Smiles,
> >>Nancy and Natasha
> >>
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