[bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for Manual Download Updates
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:02:33 -0700 (PDT)
I think it needs to go onto the download list with a
special code, such as do not remove--or be made
available to nonmembers if it's in the collection,
like some of the public domain books. Otherwise people
like Jamie and me won't have access. smile
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I think Pratik has come up with a simple
> method of allowing people to
> keep up to date while taking the manual with them:
> Put it in the new books
> list whenever a change is made so people can
> download the latest manual and
> simply replace their older one. I hope this idea is
> implemented.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linda Adams
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:27 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method for
> Manual Download Updates
>
>
> Hi, Evan. That idea may not even work
> technically, but we have already
> alienated one person, who said that she wouldn't be
> reading the manual if
> she didn't have it on the go, and there may be
> others like that person. I
> hope we can come up with something to give people
> free access to the manual
> on the go, in their note takers, or whatever, that
> will satisfy Bookshare's
> concerns about updates because otherwise, Bookshare,
> if it does nothing, may
> alienate several of its volunteers. After all, how
> can we call ourselves
> Bookshare if we're not willing to share our main
> book?
>
> Linda Adams
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Evan Reese
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:56 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Foolproof Method
> for Manual Download
> Updates
>
>
> Sorry, Linda, but I don't have a good feeling
> about this idea.
> Certainly, we want to encourage people to have the
> latest information, and
> some problems may arise if they don't get it. But
> forcing them to download
> it by not allowing them to volunteer if they don't
> sounds to me like a
> really good way of alienating people.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linda Adams
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:53 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Foolproof Method for
> Manual Download Updates
>
>
> If Bookshare staff puts a Bookshare manual
> book in the collection for
> us to download, a code could be placed in the
> downloading of that book since
> Bookshare knows anyway when we download books. This
> code could be necessary
> to show up in our account or profile before we would
> be allowed to submit or
> validate books. That way, no further volunteering
> could be done unless the
> volunteer had downloaded the latest version of the
> manual. That code could
> be an automatic password attached to the download of
> the manual that would
> be our key to continue volunteering. The system
> would see that manual
> download code and permit us to continue
> volunteering.
>
> Linda Adams
>
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