[bksvol-discuss] Re: Boy Scout meritbadge booklets are coming
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 00:24:34 -0700 (PDT)
Wonderful project, Dan. Thanks to you and the scout.
G.Cindy
--- On Sun, 5/25/08, Dan Beaver <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Dan Beaver <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Boy Scout meritbadge booklets are coming
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 5:59 PM
> Hi all,
>
> First I want to apologize for not getting the next
> "The Work and the Glory"
> book done. I also want to apologize for not getting the
> Financial Peace
> Revisited by Dave Ramsey completed. I have had major time
> shortages due to
> work and family.
>
> Now, I had talked some time ago about doing the meritbadge
> booklets. One of
> the scouts in the troop I work with has decided to get them
> ready for
> submition to Bookshare as his Eagle project. We have now
> started and I am
> having to teach a dozen or more folks how to do the clean
> up and preparation
> of the files.
>
> I will start submitting the files to Bookshare over the
> next week or 2. I
> would appreciate any effort the community could spend on
> these. I'd like to
> be able to report to the scout on the progress of the
> submitions.
>
> Each of these files will be easy validations of 50 to 150
> pages. The
> booklets are smaller page sizes than most regular books so
> there is less
> text involved. I will be doing my own validation before
> submitting them so
> they will be very clean.
>
> We are all rather excited about this young man's
> project. It will have far
> greater impact than most Eagle projects.
>
> I understand that another scout has done his Eagle project
> by submitting
> books to Bookshare. However, this is the first time the
> meritbadge booklets
> have been submitted to Bookshare other than the one I
> submitted myself a few
> months ago.
>
> To tell the truth, I had to go through a good deal of
> effort to get this
> approved by the Boy Scout national office. I was rather
> surprised at the
> resistance I found. However, once we got past the front
> line of the office
> we have found that the rest of the staff there are bending
> over backwards to
> see that we have all the materials we need.
>
> Thanks for any effort you can spend on this.
>
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