[bksvol-discuss] Re: perhaps we can get a report from engineering occasionally
- From: "Pavi Mehta" <pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:59:58 -0700
Hi E,
Thanks for presenting some of the recurring suggestions that have surfaced from
the volunteer community. They've been passed on to the team working on the site
changes. Your idea of having two or three updates a year to the volunteer
community from our end (including engineering) is something I will be working
on perhaps in the form of a newsletter that will go out all volunteers-- so
thank you for bringing that up as well!
Warm regards,
Pavi Mehta
Volunteer Coordinator, Bookshare
Benetech
480 S. California Ave., Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Phone: +1 650 644-3459
pavim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
www.benetech.org
The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
A Nonprofit Organization
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] perhaps we can get a report from engineering
occasionally
Some ideas for improving the site come up repeatedly. Now that a
volunteer co-ordinator can speak to both volunteers and staff, is a
report from engineering possible occasionally, say two or three times a year?
Sorry for the misspelling in my last message.
Let me repeat the idea with better spelling.
I suggest the number or alias method for volunteers to stay anonymous
while providing users and volunteers with a way of knowing something
about the submitter and validator of a book.
I have brought up this alias idea for about eighteen months now.
Several people have also asked for changes to the site.
The ones i remember include a way for the bookshare tool to come back
with an estimate of book quality at time of submit rather than
letting the user just decide. I realize dialect, foreign words and so
on can throw off this estimate. The submitter would be free to
over-ride it but it would give some percentage accuracy rating. The
idea is similar to what now happens when a validator uploads a book
and the tool guesses at accuracy.
E.
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