I thought that was John G.'s title. What, then is his job? G.Cindy --- On Fri, 5/30/08, talmage@xxxxxxxxxx <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 7:05 AM > I think to a certain extent, a number of people on the list > are > venting. While constructive criticism can be productive, > hostility > and anger doesn't really help, it just raises the blood > pressure to a > dangerous level. > A number of the problems Bookshare is under going are due > to growing > pains. Bookshare over the years has also had a difficult > time > retaining volunteer coordinators, and the lack of response > to issues > brought up on this list can be directly attributed to the > present > lack of such an individual. While it is nice when other > staff > members, are able to jump in, and answer some of the > questions > brought up here, I can also understand why they can't, > and don't want > to, address all the points discussed on the list. In case > you > haven't noticed, the members on this list can be a bit > verbose at > time. It will certainly be nice when Bookshare is able to > fill the > coordinator position to give us a point of contact. When > they do get > a volunteer coordinator, I would hope one of their first > tasks would > be the consolidation, and updating, of the instructions for > > volunteers, so it isn't necessary to look in 2 or 3 > different > locations for the S.O.P. and alleviate some of the same > questions > being asked on a weekly basis by new members. This would > also serve > to introduce the coordinator to the process expected of the > volunteers. > Regarding our favorite whipping boy, the infamous stripper, > in my > humble opinion, it is nothing but a pain in the a55 at this > time. I > suspect, that it was either written in a programming > language that > the current engineers don't do, and / or the comments > are so poor, > that no one wishes to tackle it. If the decisions were > mine to make, > I would ditch the present stripper, only accept RTF > submissions, and > develop a preprocessing package that would attend to > section breaks, > smart quotes, font size, check for page breaks, strip > graphics, check > quality, etc., but ... > > Dave > > At 08:40 AM 5/30/2008, you wrote: > >You are right Tracy. > > > >The thing that is most disturbing to me is the lack of > response from > >bookshare staff. They could say, as they have, > we're working on it, > >forget it, this is due to be implemented immediately. > Instead, > >nothing. To me that means lack of interest. In other > words, it was > >good enough in the olden days, get used to it. > > > >All I can say is, that's wrong, wrong, wrong! > > > >Bob (whistling in the dark) > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 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. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 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.