[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bye Bye Bookshare
- From: "Paula and James Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 21:57:06 -0600
Peter,
I'm sad for whatever happened, and I wish both you and Bookshare the best.
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Scialli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Bye Bye Bookshare
Hey all,
I thought I'd stick in my two cents before the spin machine takes over.
After a 15 year association with Benetech and Arkenstone before it, I have
resigned my position as Technical Projects Associate with the Benetech
Initiative. The lack of sponsorship to go to CSUN was just one symptom in an
increasingly hostile and counter-productive relationship I've had with the
current senior management of Bookshare. While the immediate reaction from
management was to turn off all access to my account, even my access to read
books, I still believe it to be a fundamentally terrific service and one worth
supporting. I believe it is current management's misunderstanding of me as a
person which, undoubtedly, led to the inference that I would use my knowledge
of the web site's underlying code to do damage to its content or its user
records. As I've indicated, I have total support for Bookshare and the rest of
Jim Fruchterman's visions. I hope that he will one day be able to find senior
management worthy of them.
This does not mean you won't be seeing me at conferences such as CSUN,
NFB, etc. My associations in the world of Accessible Technology are
long-standing and still of great interest to me. Thanks.
Peter Scialli
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