[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare.org Management Update
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:00:15 -0800 (PST)
Thanks for the information, Jim--and for your
succeessful talks and your persuasiveness with the
publishers.
So, Janice couldn't take our rantings and ravings any
more, huh? She decided to go to a calmer job? (grin--a
rhetorical question--).
Hopefully Jake, when he finishes his degree, won't be
money hungry; he'd be a good addition to the bookshare
engineering staff.
Cindy
> I wanted to share some news with our Bookshare.org
> volunteer and user
> community. Janice Carter will be leaving Benetech to
> pursue other
> interests in the social enterprise field. I hope
> you all join me in
> wishing Janice well as she pursues her newest
> opportunity!
>
>
>
> Lisa Friendly, our Senior Product Manager, will be
> taking over Janice's
> responsibilities on an interim basis as we decide on
> our next steps.
> I'm sure we will recruit someone to replace Janice,
> but will take some
> time to do our best to find the right fit given our
> current plans and
> team.
>
>
>
> I'm writing from New York today, where I've been
> meeting with publishers
> about expanding our direct access to digital book
> content, and
> permitting us to serve people with disabilities
> outside the U.S. The
> conversations have been going well: I expect add at
> least one major new
> publisher to our partners. We've also raised a lot
> of money in the last
> couple of months for Bookshare.org, funding that
> will enable us to do
> more engineering than we've done in the last couple
> of years. Moreover,
> we've just added two new senior engineers to our
> team, John Crossman and
> Rick Tan, who are driving ahead with the plans Lisa
> has been formulating
> (Lisa was brought on board to focus on driving
> progress on the
> engineering front with Bookshare.org). We also have
> a new, accessible
> bug tracking database that has been loaded with many
> of the issues we
> have talked about but not yet fixed.
>
>
>
> I look forward to us sharing more definitive plans
> in the coming months.
> Thanks for your support of the Bookshare.org dream!
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
> Jim Fruchterman
>
> President and CEO
>
> Benetech
>
>
>
> 480 California Avenue, Suite 201
>
> Palo Alto, California 94306 USA
>
> New direct line: +1 650 644-3406
>
> Fax: +1 650 475-1066
>
>
>
> jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> www.benetech.org <http://www.benetech.org/>
>
>
>
> The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving
> Humanity
>
> Benetech is a nonprofit organization
>
>
>
>
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